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Re: [RFI] The energy-saving LED bulb that switched off the radio

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Subject: Re: [RFI] The energy-saving LED bulb that switched off the radio
From: Charles Coldwell <coldwell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:07:47 -0400
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Does anyone have experience with these:

http://www.switchlightingco.com/

I have some of their 60-watt equivalents at home; the color is
fantastic (very close to incandescent).  I haven't done much RFI
testing yet.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:22 PM, David Robbins <k1ttt@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> some LED bulbs use a switching power supply that is not well shielded.  i 
> picked up a couple generic ones the last time i was in dayton, one of them is 
> dead quiet and it still in use, the other one was all over hf and was sent to 
> the arrl lab for testing.  Since these were generic ones, probably mail 
> ordered directly from china for a really cheap price to stock this dealer's 
> shelves, i would doubt that they had passed any type of fcc testing.
>
>
> Mar 28, 2013 12:40:53 PM, donovanf@starpower.net wrote:
>
> LED light bulbs are causing serious RFI in the UK too! See these links:
>
> http://conversation.which.co.uk/energy-home/led-bulb-radio-interference-dab-test
>
> http://www.avforums.com/forums/dab-digital-radio-fm-radio/1330696-led-lights-interferes-dab-signal-2.html
>
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
>
>
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-- 
Charles M. Coldwell, W1CMC
Belmont, Massachusetts, New England
"Turn on, log in, tune out"
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