[R-390] OT? Dimmer buzz, solution?

[Roy Morgan]

At 10:21 AM 7/1/2005, Dave or Debbie Metz wrote:
>... haunted for years by lamp dimmer buzz radiated as RF that gets picked 
>up with my basement hobby an the AM that the R-390 wants to hear.

Lots of us have this problem.

>   Recently, I purchased a Lutron Lamp Debuzzer Coil  LDC-10-TCP in 
> another attempt to eliminate this radiated hash. Low and behold the $110 
> investment worked fantastically!

One Hundred Ten dollars!!  YIKES!!  I'm not gonna use the s****r word here 
but I'm tempted!



>  Now what I want to know is how to build such an animal for a lot less 
> than $110!

Smash it open and see what's inside. Go to Mouser looking for similar 
parts. Buy parts. Put together with a bit of heatshrink and be 
done.  Estimated cost: five bucks MAX.

Roy


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