[Boatanchors] CFLs

[Charles Ring]

I never had any of the early CFLs, but the current design ones don't 
cause any RFI that I have seen. They light instantly and give good 
light. RFI was one of my worries about them, so I took a Walkman radio 
to a friend's apartment, switched it to AM, and heard RFI only when I 
put it right up to the CFL. None even 1-2 feet away.

Nonetheless, I am stocking up on incandescent bulbs.

73 de W3NU



On 12/30/2010 11:34 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
>