[RFI] POE home lighting experiences?

[Jim Brown]

On 7/14/2023 11:53 AM, David Eckhardt wrote:
> A decade plus or so ago in a house we no longer live in, we had it 
> installed.  I requested use of ONLY a "real transformer".  What did the 
> installer use?  An "electronic transformer".  This is nothing but yet 
> another SMPS with no decoupling what-so-ever.  It killed all of HF, the 
> AM BCB, and upwards of 2-Meters.  Just say NO........

I first encountered "electronic transformers" at a "know-nothing but 
lots of attitude" electrical supply house after moving to Santa Cruz in 
2006. There were three of them in backboxes for fixtures in the main 
bathroom, and they destroyed the EU Beverage that ran next to the 
bathroom. The problem is that real transformers won't fit in most 
backboxes. My final solution was to improvise with an linear supply in 
the ceiling running special LED devices from a vendor who sold at 
Pacificon and Visalia.

73, Jim K9YC