For those looking at CFLs or LEDs in the shack, and presuming that is where you
built, very close attention must be given to
the color and intensity of the light emitter. Especially if you are working
with hole through color coded components, like resistors.
The perceived color of the bands/dots
On 9/27/2015 11:51 AM, Dale Putnam wrote:
> For those looking at CFLs or LEDs in the shack, and presuming that is
> where you built, very close attention must be given to the color and
> intensity of the light emitter.
I took a page from my wife's avocation -- art -- and use
I bought all my LED's from a number of different sources and they are assorted
brands. The only thing i looked for was color temp and they had to be
"dimmable". After I swapped all the CFL's and tubes out, my background noise
dropped by around a half S unit.
I then killed all the lights
You should find that many of these lamps will have a little known value
written on the side of the box that will help you decide. The ]Colour
Rendering Index (CRI) of these lamps will tell you how faithfully they will
reproduce all colours of the spectrum. If you find a lamp without this
My house is filled with some cheap LED lights — there are four in the ham shack
alone. Never have I had any EMI issues from these lamps. By cheap, I mean the
lower cost LED lights from Home Depot. I don’t really go out of my way to get
the cheapest things I own — after all, I have a full
On that subject, does anyone know of any tests for which brands of lamps (LED,
I don't use CFLs!) are better for low EMI? As noted it would seem that the
name brand units would be better in this regard, but maybe not?
73, Al
On Sun September 27 2015 6:42:19 pm Matthew Cook wrote:
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> However
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