I have a good friend who is in engineering at Lutron (software end,
but)
I asked him about various dimmers and RFI and his reply (snipped of
"how the family is doing stuff") is below
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To paraphrase the racing guys, RFI suppression costs money. How low do you
want to go?
There are a couple of factors involved--one is how the device responds to
noise on the line before we dim, the other is how we do the dimming.
The best possible solution is made for hospitals and MRI centers--zero RFI.
Lotsa bucks. The next best solution is our GP dimming panels--very little
RFI, but lotsa bucks. Then comes our LP dimming panels, with the new
FET-based A-series dimming module. Much more modestly priced, but this is
still Lutron. (Depending upon how much the electrical contractor marks it
up, you're still probably around a hundred dollars per circuit or so.)
Want more? Here's the Lutron FAQ for RFI:
http://www.lutron.com/default.aspx?pid=6#faq8
Note the last suggestion--install an electronic low-voltage lighting
system, with an ELV dimmer. Then comes the big tip: a separate neutral.
Lots of times these days electricians will wire a building with a common
neutral--combining the white wires and running a lot of circuits back to
the panel on a single white wire. This is a bad thing to do--because you
get all kinds of nasty noise on the line, and the noise appears on all of
the circuits. But it happens (it saves the contractor wire).
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