tv reception and led lights
I changed all of my incandescent lights to led. Now when I turn on a light my tv picture disappears. It doesn't seem to matter which light, they all do it. Turn off the light and the picture comes b...
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This happens when you purchased the expensive LED BOARDS that have the BUCK REGULATORs on the them to make them operate in a wide 12VDC Voltage range.. The regulator emits a RFI signal strong enough to interfere with VHF/UHF radio frequencies.. This includes your HDTV, WX Radios, Ham Radio, Scanners, etc...
I made that mistake as well and have a $200 invested in the new LED lights...
I then went and got the $4.99 LED LIGHT boards from ebay china and bought several extras. The ceiling lights I saved the High Dollar boards and only replaced one of them with the cheap board. My ceiling light fixtures have an ONE SIDE-OFF-BOTH SIDES switch positions so when I am not using the RF electronics I can have both sides ON. When using the RF Electronics I just turn on the cheap LED BOARDS from ebay china.
I thought the boards without the DC VOLTAGE Regulator chips installed on them would burn out with my DC VOLTS going as high as 15VDC some times. Out of the four boards I am using in the ceiling light groups that have the dual boards, one board has a three segment led light group off. The others are still all working. I installed mine in 2009...
Your new board are most likely within FCC specs on the amount of RFI being present so it may be hard to request a return.
My HDTV really was bad when using the crank up OTA BATWING antenna picking up the HDTV signals from the local towns. The strong signal coming from the CABLE TV connections usually was strong to override the RFI signal for me... My other items I listed above however always got interfered with...
Lots of information on this subj on RV NET...
Roy Ken
I made that mistake as well and have a $200 invested in the new LED lights...
I then went and got the $4.99 LED LIGHT boards from ebay china and bought several extras. The ceiling lights I saved the High Dollar boards and only replaced one of them with the cheap board. My ceiling light fixtures have an ONE SIDE-OFF-BOTH SIDES switch positions so when I am not using the RF electronics I can have both sides ON. When using the RF Electronics I just turn on the cheap LED BOARDS from ebay china.
I thought the boards without the DC VOLTAGE Regulator chips installed on them would burn out with my DC VOLTS going as high as 15VDC some times. Out of the four boards I am using in the ceiling light groups that have the dual boards, one board has a three segment led light group off. The others are still all working. I installed mine in 2009...
Your new board are most likely within FCC specs on the amount of RFI being present so it may be hard to request a return.
My HDTV really was bad when using the crank up OTA BATWING antenna picking up the HDTV signals from the local towns. The strong signal coming from the CABLE TV connections usually was strong to override the RFI signal for me... My other items I listed above however always got interfered with...
Lots of information on this subj on RV NET...
Roy Ken
