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Makes me wonder about those "California" curly light bulbs and the radio energy they put out, I wonder if a GPS would burn up next to them? Those lights are not as safe as incandescent.


I worried about those things when they first came out, making all sorts of RF noise but best I can tell, they are silent. I've got VHF/UHF and HF ham gear running all the time here and 13 of those curly lights within 10-25 feet of my station. I can't hear em'. The bigger tubes are different....you can hear a bad ballast.

Interesting....there is a lot more in those little CFL bulbs than I though, including a filter capacitor, which is why they don't make much noise, plus, instead of 60hz, they appear to run at 40khz!
Read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp

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