[RFI] Rectified 120Hz RFI?

Andy ingraham.ma.ultranet at rcn.com
Wed Aug 4 10:45:48 PDT 2010


Just thinking, there are many possibilities for what might cause it to
be 120 Hz instead of 60 Hz.

One being something gone wrong in a full wave rectifier.

Jim's suggestion of arcing on both excursions seems likely too.

I suppose it might also have something to do with the zero crossings.
Things like triacs tend to generate RFI because they switch on and off
every half cycle, 120 times a second.

Andy


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