Hi Bert,
I can't speak of the electronics as I have not taken a cover off to look. I
see no flickering so far. The oldest Led fixtures here are 2 months. I have
installed 13 so far. I don't expect super quality for $40. If they continue
to work like they are presently doing I will be happy. And the garage and
basement are now much brighter too using less watts.
Any tests I have done on 10-160M I have not heard any difference when
switching the lights on and off. But I should qualify this some.
When I first set up the station in this house when it was new 23 years ago,
I had noise ingress from multiple sources. At that time I was using RG13 and
RG8X for all cabling in the shack. I replaced all the coax. For transmit
lines I switched to Buryflex which has 100% shielding. For receive lines
inside and outside I switched to RG6 quad flooded cable. Doing this
significantly cut back on the ingress of RFI. And I have good single point
grounding. So, for checking noise I usually turn one of the antennas towards
the house to see if I have noise.
73,
N2TK, Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Bert Almemo [mailto:balmemo@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 4:29 PM
To: 'N2TK, Tony' <tony.kaz@verizon.net>; mstangelo@comcast.net
Cc: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [RFI] RFI via Florescent Lights
I just read a review of this LED fixture and it read " The electronics in
this light are cheap and the light quality is affected by constant
flickering that is worse than a fluorescent bulb".
Would be nice to hear your opinion Tony. Thanks.
Bert, VE3NR
-----Original Message-----
From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of N2TK, Tony
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 4:07 PM
To: mstangelo@comcast.net
Cc: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] RFI via Florescent Lights
Hi Mike,
I just bought 6 more today.
Commercial Electric
Model 54103161
SKU 1000532467
$39.97 here in NY
Color - 4K
Lumens 3200
Watts 36
And if you are a vet you get 10% off of that too.
These fixtures are replacing two tube F40CW T12 fixtures
What's this about HD recycling fluorescent bulbs?
N2TK, Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: mstangelo@comcast.net [mailto:mstangelo@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 3:28 PM
To: Tony N2TK <tony.kaz@verizon.net>
Cc: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] RFI via Florescent Lights
Tony,
Would you have the part number for the Home Depot 4" foot LED fixture? I
want to replace the fixtures in my basement.
I guess the Home depot can recycle my old fluorescent bulbs.
Thanks,
Mike N2MS
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony N2TK <tony.kaz@verizon.net>
To: rfi@contesting.com
Sent: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 11:15:26 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [RFI] RFI via Florescent Lights
An easy fix, at least for me was to replace the entire fixture with a Home
Depot 4' Led fixture for $40. It puts out more light than the existing two
40W tube fluorescent fixtures. And no problem putting out bright light in my
garage in cold winter where the standard fluorescent fixtures were very dim.
I have not detected any RF noise in the shack from the Led fixtures.
Anyone want 16 used fluorescent fixtures? :-) 73, N2TK, Tony
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