[Elecraft] Basement QRN

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

When I had a lot of lo-vol down lighters fitted, I paid a little more and
have torroidal transformers fitted, instead of the cheaper switching
'transformer'. It means you can't dim them - but they are in places where I
don't need to anyway.


On 09/03/2008 22:52, "Jerry Flanders" <jeflanders at comcast.net> sent:

> You must have had a noisy switcher power supply for those low-voltage
> halogens. The halogen bulb is simply another conventional bulb with a
> filament and halogen gas is added to prevent the metal filament from
> evaporating. 110 V halogens would probably have been FB.
> 
> Jerry W4UK
> 
> At 05:42 PM 3/9/2008, Denise&Werner wrote:
>> When I put my shack together I put in some halogen lighting from an overhead
>> shelf that looked pretty cool till I turned on the lights.
>> 
>> Talk about noise. It was like a blanket . I switched off the lights and it
>> was gone.
>> 
>> These were the low voltage halogens.
>> 
>> By the way, I just ordered my K3 yesterday. I just couldn't stand to hear
>> about all the fun I was missing.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Werner   N8BB
>> 
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