I use these things in my ceiling fans(3 per fan) only because they give the
equivalent of 100 watts of light in each 60 watt fixture.
The do make a hell of a buzzing noise! Some worse than others of the same
brand. Sure smell when the burn out too.
Anyway what I found was that if I wrap the glass shades on the fan with
aluminum foil (still allows good heat transfer) and ground it to the fan
case.... Voila! The buzzing stops.
Those suckers sure do radiate. I only loose a minimal of light doing this.
Maybe they should come with some kind of screening device/mesh packed in the
package. I really don't think I need the radiation especially from three of
the suckers directly over my head.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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Bill Baka wrote:

This week I have been trying to find noise sources to get rid of so I
can listen to some quality shortwave.
First I found the Chinese CFL's to be horrendous and should be reported
to the F.C.C., as if they will do anything.
Last night I had another noise source to kill, a 3 way touch lamp that
uses an SCR. I turned it off thinking the noise would go away but it got
even louder with the light off. Picked it up and looked on the bottom
and sure enough, "Made in China.". The only way to stop the noise is to
unplug it completely, making about a 20dB improvement in the noise
floor.
I don't know which other things make RFI this bad but so far "Made in
China." seems to be a warning label for total crap products.

Bill (don't want no stinking Chinese electronics) Baka


These smaal solar panles for eg cell phone/gsm have so much electronics
inside thatthey make a hell of a lot of noise if you use them with
radio's.

"stinking Chinese electronics??" It is / was the same with our
electronics ;-) They always try to sell some more than we need ;-)


That, and it's nearly impossible anymore to find non-Chinese electronics.
:-/

People used to whine about how bad Japanese electronics was in the 50's
and 60's. That was mostly jingoism, though, since most Japanese
electronics was as good as US electronics (by the mid 70's, it was
superior). The current crop of Chinese Junk electronics makes ANYTHING
prior to 1980 look positively top notch