[RFI] Solar Panel RFI

[Peter Laws]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Tony <dxdx at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> A quick update on the solar panel noise:
>
> The noise reappeared this morning after going completely quiet overnight. My
> guess is that the system shuts down after sundown once the panels stop
> generating power???


It's almost certainly the inverter that takes the DC from the panels
and converts it to AC usable by household loads (if the house also has
a battery bank, which isn't always the case, then it handles keeping
that topped off as well).

Wasn't there an article in a recent QST about a ham that had RFI from
his own solar installation and all the things he did to mitigate it?

Yeah - here it is.  April 2016 issue.  If you are a member, and not
near your stack of magazines, it's on the ARRL website.  It's the
cover story - "Can Amateur Radio and Solar Power Coexist?" (tl;dr -
yes).



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