[Boatanchors] CFLs

[Pete Lancashire]

not only C as in compact but cheap FL, like the $10 shop ones.

at my old place, I had about a dozen of them. the only thing that worked
was since they were between the joists was to cage them in wire cloth
(Al window screening).

on the flip side I helped wire a friends shop with commercial fixtures, don't
know what was different on the inside but they were a lot quieter.

love to hear from others and their solutions

-pete

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:34 AM,  <Troglodite at aol.com> wrote:
> One thing no one has mentioned that I have encountered is RFI from CFL's.
> Perhaps the newer ones are better, but some generate noise all the way up
> into  the GHz region. I cannot use one in the lamp that sits next to my home
> wireless  phone system, as it operates marginally when near the CFL. It runs
> at 2.4GHz or  thereabouts. Now it may be that some lower frequency component
> is interfering  with the phone's processor, I don't know for sure.
>
> I also pick up noise on several communications receivers if there are CFL's
>  in the same room. Has anyone else noticed this?
>
> Doug Moore kb9tmy
>
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