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General Science => General Science => Topic started by: neilep on 15/11/2005 16:15:08
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Dearest Naked Scientists,
What is so special about flourescent light that makes my Radio make the most awful weird whining sound when the two are placed together...it's a ruly awful sound, one I've never heard before.
I gather there is some radio interference of some sort which leads me to ask my second question :
What is the differences between flourescent light and light from your regular household lightbulb ?
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http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/flamp.htm
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Electronic Ballasts
These devices are basically switching power supplies that eliminate the large, heavy, 'iron' ballast and replace it with an integrated high frequency inverter/switcher. Current limiting is then done by a very small inductor, which has sufficient impedance at the high frequency. Properly designed electronic ballasts should be very reliable. Whether they actual are reliable in practice depends on their location with respect to the heat produced by the lamps as well as many other factors. Since these ballasts include rectification, filtering, and operate the tubes at a high frequency, they also usually eliminate or greatly reduce the 100/120 Hz flicker associated with iron ballasted systems. However, this is not always the case and depending on design (mainly how much filtering there is on the rectified line voltage), varying amounts of 100/120 can still be present.
I have heard, however, of problems with these relating to radio frequency interference from the ballasts and tubes. Other complaints have resulted due to erratic behavior of electronic equipment using infra red remote controls.