[RFI] Delta Touch Controlled Kitchen Faucet RFI Issue

[chuck.gooden]

Steve,Well that is news that I did not want to hear, but I was afraid I would.  By chance did you contact Delta about the issue?  If so can you send me the referance number on the call?  Would like to send them a letter showing a number of their customers are having issues that maybe they may want to do more testing.

Chuck Gooden - K9LC

-------- Original message --------
From: VE6WZ Steve <ve6wz at shaw.ca> 
Date: 09/23/2017  8:27 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: Chuck Gooden <Chuck.Gooden at comcast.net> 
Cc: rfi at contesting.com 
Subject: Re: [RFI] Delta Touch Controlled Kitchen Faucet RFI Issue 

Hi Chuck,

I have had the exact same faucet for 4 years. Same problem here. (I love the touch tap btw). The worst band was 40m, but I would activate the unit on most bands. If you can copy CW, you could copy my transmission by listening to the tap turn on-and of with my keying.
Tried everything...ferrites on all leads to the device etc. 40 and 80m Yagi at 100' with CM chokes on all lines. No solution found....except...just make sure you manually turn the faucet off before you operate. It drove my wife nuts, but she learned to just get up and turn the tap off. It was really creepy at first to see the tap turning on and off magically by itself. Actually scared the kids at first but they got used to it..."oh, Dad is on the radio again!"

I have since moved my station to a remote location so that sure solved my problem.

De steve VE6WZ

From Babcocks iPhone

> On Sep 22, 2017, at 7:22 PM, Chuck Gooden <Chuck.Gooden at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hope some one can assist me with this RFI problem.
> 
> We have a kitchen faucet made by Delta (Model 9192T).  The faucet will turn on when you touch it and turn off when you touch it again.  It actually worked pretty good.  The control module and solenoid is powered by 6 AA batteries.
> 
> Unfortunately, when I use my transmitter the faucet will toggle the water off and on.
> 
> I have contacted Delta and they said there isn't a solution, other than disabling the touch feature (problem?).  The installer did not give me much room to work and it will not be easy to disable the touch feature and we like this feature.
> 
> Any one have any other suggestions?
> 
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