[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless issues and low voltage down lights with electronic psu.

[vak]

Hi All,

Most electronic downlight transformers are switchmode - you might have a 
dud one that's coupling lots of high frequency switching noise back onto 
the mains... Do you get any interference coming through on a mains 
powered AM/FM radio ? (try both bands) - That's assuming the lighting 
circuit and power circuit are close to each other.

This might affect the AP if it has an old style wirewound transformer 
the noise is getting into the AP.

A few things to try:

a) Try plugging the AP into a power point far from the downlights
b) If the AP is close to the transformers, move it
c) Try coiling the DC input to the AP around a ferrite.

Cheers,

Vaskos

Winder wrote:

>Howdy,
>
> I was at a mates place the other day, and I grabbed his ipaq. I tried to
>get on the net with it but couldn't. He got up and turned off the lights and
>then the wireless just started to work.
>
> He's got a few down lights, just installed (but installed before the
>wireles) but they have tiny little power modules, not the old transformer
>bricks that you can get. These were very small, I think he said switchmode
>but not 100% sure.
>
> Anyone seen this problem before? Any idea what is the cause, and what the
>fix is? Cheers.
>
>Regards,
>g at z.
>
>
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