In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 05 Jun 2019 23:17:28 -0400, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 22:47:01 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 3 Jun 2019 21:26:48 -0700, Bob F
wrote:

On 6/3/2019 11:18 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 3 Jun 2019 06:15:07 -0400, Biff Tannen
wrote:

On 6/2/19 9:18 AM, micky wrote:
I've been listening to a weak FM radio station, on a radio, and 2 feet
away was a desk lamp. It used a CFL and I noticed static or some kind
of interference in the reception. It could be lessened by changing the
frequency a little, but the result was still less volume than when the
light was off.

So I figured, LEDs! They won't make interference. Bought Ecosmart.
Then the radio hummed so loud I couldn't hear the station at all.

I will probably go back to incandescent. Any other way to get rid of
the hum?


Probably expensive but if the lievertising is to be believed, these might fix your problem.

https://www.geniecompany.com/garage-...ight-bulb.aspx

It's $19/2 of them, at Home Depot and Amazon, and Amazon has one for
almost $10. Thanks. Expensive but a good idea.

Bob, there's one other bulb in the package. I'll try that

Another model or brand is more likely to make the needed difference.

You're right. I put the noisy LED bulb in the ceiling fixture and now
it's about 5 feet from the radio and doesn't interfere at all.

It's called "daylight" and at 100 eq. watts it gave a very strange
appearance to the room. I'll probably get used to it. They didn't
have anohter low-cost LED at HDepot and ... I'll probably get used to
it. After all, it's "daylight".
I never got used to "cool white" flourescents. The "delux cool white"
was better. I've switched virtually everything to LED now and I use
ONLY daylight. Took a bit of getting used to, but the light is SO much
more natural - and SEEMS a lot brighter for the same lumen output
because the human eye senses bkue light much better than yellow

Yes, it does seem very bright. It lights up the whole kitchen and when
I had an incandescent bulb 100W, I changed to 150.

Of course maybe it just seems to light up the whole kitchen because I
had no ceiling light for a month and was away for the 3 months before
that. We shall see.

They have a small exhibit at HDepot where you put your hand or something
in the little box, one of three boxes for each kind of light. And some
make-up mirrors claim to use 3 kinds of light.

I'll have to pay more attention.