[RFI] warning on led bulb

K1TTT K1TTT at ARRL.NET
Sat Jul 3 12:47:12 PDT 2010


Yeah I might... but do I really want to modify the track fixture to try to
filter a bulb that shouldn't make noise in the first place?  My intent was
to warn others that some of these led bulbs may be sources of noise.


David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Brown [mailto:jim at audiosystemsgroup.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 19:05
> To: Rfi
> Subject: Re: [RFI] warning on led bulb
> 
> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:52:24 +0000, K1TTT wrote:
> 
> >I just tracked down a new birdie on 160m
> 
> Thanks Dave. You MIGHT be able to kill it with the combination of a
> ferrite
> choke and AC-rated capacitor across the choke on the line side. The choke
> kills the common mode, and the cap works with the leakage inductance to
> form a differential filter. In this application, you want to wind the
> choke
> with some asymetry so that there will be some leakage/imbalance for the
> cap
> to work with. This is something I picked up from Henry Ott.
> 
> 73, Jim Brown K9YC
> 
> 
> 
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