[Lowfer] Government Mandated Noise ???

[Mike WE0H]

My Feit Electric CFL's sit under a 12" over hang. The fixture is a foot 
below the overhang on the north side of the house. I have them hanging 
at a 45 degree angle downward if that makes any difference. Definitely 
the relay type motion sensor type; I can hear it click every time. The 
CFL model is the 'Daylight 60 Natural'. The bad CFL flood lamps I tried 
are called N:Vision soft white PAR38 90w equivalent. Do Not buy these, 
they are complete junk and will fail. Plus they weigh a ton, all heavy 
glass enclosure around the CFL. Probably cooked them to death. 7 year 
warranty. I won't even bother getting replacements. Lesson learned.

Mike
WE0H


John D wrote:
> Good and timely information on the Feit Electric daylight CFLs, Mike.  Need 
> to see if I can find some.  I'd been looking to replace the floodlamps in my 
> outdoor motion-sensing fixture because every leaf that blows past (and we 
> have a LOT of wind in Kansas) presently lights up a pair of 75 watt lamps 
> for up to 5 minutes, and the CFL floodlamp replacements I'd seen in the 
> stores didn't look too promising.
>
> It might be worth mentioning to anyone considering CFLs in photocell 
> controlled fixtures...an all-on/all-off (ie, relay operated) switch is OK, 
> as motion-sensing fixtures also use.  All you have to worry about in that 
> case is the weather resistance of the lamp.  However, some very simple 
> photocell fixtures are basically just LASCRs, whose output is proportional 
> to the "available darkness" and is therefor not always the full cycle of the 
> AC waveform.  That's very bad for the electronics in the lamps and is not 
> great from an RF perspective, either.