RFI and GFI's

[K4KGW]

We had the touch lamp problem five years ago when one of our family members bought three
of those horrible inventions because she just loved to wave her hand at it and watch it
change in intensity.

After a few weeks of waking up in the middle of the night while I was working Asia to the
accompaniment of rapidly changing light levels on the lamps, powered by my 1200 watt
amplifier, the touch feature rather quickly got torn out and was replaced by three-way
hard-wired switches.

The touch lamps also caused tremendous QRM every so many kHz throughout the entire range
of my receivers, whether the lamps were on or off.  I would have taken an axe to them
pretty soon had the culprit not yielded first!

Keith

Ray Friess wrote:

> AMEN on the touch lamp problems.  We have one in the spare upstairs
> bedroom and the shack is downstairs.  Makes for some interesting times
> when the grandkids stay over and are supposed to be in bed sleeping when
> I'm downstairs in the shack.
>      First time it happened, the grandson came screaming out of the
> bedroom that there was a "ghost" in there. HI HI
>      Needless to say, I got the "look" from my wife.
>      Ray  WA7ITZ
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