[Hallicrafters] Spiral Fluorescants

[Glen Zook]

The manufacturing process on these CFL units has pretty much eliminated the noise problems.  I operate on all bands between 160 meters and 70 cms (1.8 MHz through 432 MHz) and there are numerous CFL units now installed in my house.  There is no noise at all when these lamps are turned on.  What my wife and I have been buying at the "el cheapo" CFL units that have been on sale at both Lowe's and Home Depot for as little as $4 for 4 and $6.99 for 8.

Now I do understand that many of those that were available just a few years ago were definitely noisy.  But, fortunately, those that are now available do not suffer from the noise generation.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Mon, 12/8/08, TC Dailey <daileyservices at qwest.net> wrote:

From: TC Dailey <daileyservices at qwest.net>

I will not allow those pieces of junk into my house.  They create MASSIVE amounts of broadband noise, which my "pretty good" noiseblankers cannot remove.  As a result of the Government's STUFFING these pieces du'junque down our throats, the wife and I bought 3 cases of GOOD ol' tungsten light bulbs, which do NOT create such noise.  By the by, the new bulbs DO NOT save as much energy as you would think.  The transformer runs rather HOT, so that quite a bit of energy is wasted in USELESS HEAT, as opposed to USEFUL heat, which I recover in the shop.