Gordon - Just bringing it up as it is real problem. Most manf indicated they were within FCC specs so never put much effort in a fix or changing type of LED boards circuit regulation procedures. Some folks say they have never experienced it but if you ever find your self camping off the power grid and working with weaker OTA HDTV and WX Alert Radio signals I think you will notice it right away as a problem. Your on-board items will not work as well as your close by neighbors. It is not hard to notice you are experiencing RFI when you turn on your LED lights and HDTV goes completely blank. Turn the LED lights off and the HDTV comes back on...
Since I had started out with Command Electronics devices which performed very well for my retrofit I was pretty well committed before I realized I had RFI issues. My cheap way out was mod my dual lamp fixtures with three way switch (OFF-ON-BOTH) allowing me to mix the unregulated boards with the regulated boards. This give lights when camping off the power grids locations just using half of the light fixtures which had the non-regulated boards installed. At least I had control of the situation for my installs.
There are other problems with solid state devices that will bite the radio world as well with the high powered INVERTERs doing the same thing... Inverters and regulated LED light circuits sure play hard with amateur radio operations when camping off the power grids. These RFI signals are very broad in frequency which makes them hard to live with. In my experience with INVERTER some of the lower RF bands for amateur radio was totally unusable. All you hear on the radios were loud BRRRRR's every where you tune your radios.
Just things you have to learn to live with. There are more non amateur radio users and everyone has their rights to their electronics.
Here is some of CAMPERPAULS handy work working on his RFI issues... Those are 1/8-inch strip capacitors soldered inplace - very carefully soldered inplace I might add... Magnetic ferrite beads and twisting of 12VDC cables are about the first thing ones tries to help.
Like said by others on here it has been well documentated on the RV forums as real events. Not just Uncle Roy Ken having problems...
As long as FCC allows their regulations to be covered by having a statement in their specificitions that you may experience RFI issues and not require manf to fix the problems then it will continue... Read the fine print hehe... When you call the manf and report the issues right away you hear they are in compliance with FCC regulations.
Roy Ken
