[RFI] Aparently RFI Quiet Dimmable LED Floodlight from Home Depot

Gary Smith wa6fgi at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 31 13:30:57 EDT 2013


What make and model is it?
tnx,

Gary...wa6fgi


On 3/30/2013 9:25 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 3/29/2013 11:52 AM, donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
>> The LED lighting I am using in my kitchen is a sealed fixture with a 
>> Fresnel like lens inside which is the LED bulb. It is sold at Home 
>> Depot.
>
> While the observation that these fixtures are working for him, I don't 
> see any product identification.  And, of course, what matters most is 
> proximity to antennas, not equipment (unless, of course, the equipment 
> has a strong Pin One Problem).
>
> It should also be remembered that a device can be quiet when working 
> correctly, but get noisy when it is aging or getting ready to fail. I 
> had exactly that experience a few weeks ago with the knock-off power 
> supply for the Thinkpad computer I'm using to do email. It's on a 
> table in my living room, 200 ft from most antennas, about 60 ft from 
> the shack. I missed the recent 9M4 DXpedition on 160M thanks to a 
> really strong noise that had just appeared, and I never found. But 
> when i returned from a weekend trip east and plugged that computer 
> back into the power supply, the PSU was dead.  And the 160M noise was 
> gone.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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