Re: [Elecraft] RFI noise

2009-09-25 Thread David Cutter
A different approach might work better: what these firms are practising is fraud or misrepresentation and we get a lot of that over here. Passing it off as something which it is not as any other consumer goods is illegal. It's also illegal to use an agency sticker like that. Over here we

Re: [Elecraft] RFI noise

2009-09-25 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:17:26PM -0400 I heard the voice of N2TK, and lo! it spake thus: I have had good success with PC Power Cooling supplies. Have replaced all of the cheaper PC supplies with theirs. Got rid of the noise. I second this. Also, even ignoring RFI completely, I only use

Re: [Elecraft] RFI noise

2009-09-24 Thread N2TK
Bill, I have had good success with PC Power Cooling supplies. Have replaced all of the cheaper PC supplies with theirs. Got rid of the noise. http://www.pcpower.com/index.html N2TK, Tony -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net

Re: [Elecraft] RFI noise

2009-09-24 Thread Alan Bloom
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 13:08 -0600, William Carver wrote: ... It had VDE/UL/FCC stickers, ALL of the agency certifications. ... It seemed pretty clear the supplies had passed agency approvals with the filter components in place, but once they had the sticker they stopped putting those parts on

Re: [Elecraft] RFI noise

2009-09-24 Thread tom_k1tl
I installed a 350w PS from Antec in one of my computers and the noise disappeared. One other computer, I installed a Corcom 6EF1 RFI module at the AC input and that cleared up the computer hash on 30m. This drove me nuts for about two years as I was hearing this warbling hash going up and down

Re: [Elecraft] RFI noise

2009-09-24 Thread David Gilbert
I've bought the parts for several high-end computers from Tiger Direct and haven't any problem with power supplies (or much of anything else, for that matter), but I always buy the power supplies made by Ultra (a solid brand name) because I like their modular cable system. Ultra even offers

Re: [Elecraft] RFI noise

2009-09-24 Thread Bill NY9H
At 02:08 PM 9/24/2009, William Carver wrote: I lost a PC power su filter parts missing from production power suppliesprobably after agency certifications. RSGB's magazine has been on this issue for many months with pictures etc I believe that they had not much concern from their OFCOM

Re: [Elecraft] RFI noise

2009-09-24 Thread Stewart
Bill, In the UK it is the case that many SMPSU's have, once CE certification has been obtained been manufactured in volume with the input filter parts omitted. These are in the main imports from Tiawan and China. These non-compliant PSU's have been brought to the attention of our regulator