I was able to work with our City engineer prior to LED streetlights
being deployed...
Myself and another Amateur tested by sitting under each of the the test
lights, and found nothing on any brand. We listened on 160, through 2
meters. If I remember correctly, there were maybe 4 or 5 different
brands.
This was several years ago, the city has converted fully to LED, and no
issues so far...
73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
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On 3/4/20 3:51 AM, Dale Johnson wrote:
The entire city of Bloomington, Minnesota has LED street lights. There is one
less than a half block from my house. The Mall of America is six miles East of
me and the entire parking ramp is LED lighted.
I was also concerned when they started the project. So far I have not noticed any
increase of noise from these lights. They’ve been in place now for a few
years. They save on electric power and the old street lights used to be a problem
when the automatic switches failed, those were operated by light sensors on top of the
old street lights. I think there is a similar setup with the LED lights, but so far
have not failed..
Good luck
Dale, K9VUJ
On 03, Mar 2020, at 12:41, Alan Higbie <alan.higbie@gmail.com> wrote:
Our city (Colorado Springs) is installing LED street lights with some new
type of controllers.
I am not sure, but I believe these are made by a company named Lumenistic
(of Boulder, Colorado).
Here is link to recent news article:
https://gazette.com/news/local/colorado-springs-tests-remote-controlled-smart-streetlights/article_d8fb4748-5ccb-11ea-8e2f-db73a4aa2d5e.html
It is the microprocessors with potential for RFI that I want to know about.
I'll probably take my Tecsun PL 660 over to where they have installed some
of the new lights and take a listen.
Anyone have experiences along these lines?
73, Alan K0AV
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