[RFI] RFI alert

[Roger (K8RI)]

Jack Shirley wrote:
> http://www.oriones.com/
> Fluorescent lighting with electronic ballasts.
> I was just at a large company and they are replacing all their HID lamps
> with these fixtures. Apparently the RFI was so bad it interfered with their
> radio controlled cranes.
> I believe there is some tax incentive for companies to make the change.
> Heads up.
>   
I wonder what they are doing. I looked at the web page, but all I found 
was they are using a high intensity system. All of the lights in my shop 
are fluorescents (22 8', 75 watt tubes), or 1650 watts. If they were 
incandescents I could heat the place with them, but I'd need one whale 
of an airconditioner in the summer.
With the conventional fluorescents I have no RF hash, but they are 
sometimes noisy as in an audible noise.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> 73  N8DX
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