Turning my room into a Faraday Cage

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DreadyBob

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...The problem persists.... bought some Faraday fabric online and wrapped it around my ballast, apparently the noise was not as harsh but overheating the ballast was a major concern.
I'm now thinking of building an enclosure to house the ballasts and wrap said enclosure with the fabric. My idea is like a cpu, fans set up to cool the ballasts.
any idea or advise most welcome.

cheers
 
xox

xox

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i had this issue before when i still had ballasts. the cable company knocked on my door and told me they were turning off my internet because the rf interference was causing issues with the internet. i actually never rectified the problem fully. i ended up re routing all my coaxial for internet away from where the ballasts were located and that fixed the issue for me. the rf interference will travel through the cables you use for internet in your house and can interfere with your neighbours internet
 
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DreadyBob

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xox said:
i had this issue before when i still had ballasts. the cable company knocked on my door and told me they were turning off my internet because the rf interference was causing issues with the internet. i actually never rectified the problem fully. i ended up re routing all my coaxial for internet away from where the ballasts were located and that fixed the issue for me. the rf interference will travel through the cables you use for internet in your house and can interfere with your neighbours internet
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that's for your input dude, my neighbour is a HAM radio fanatic, when I say radio shack in the shed, he's got over 40k's worth of equipment. I'm speaking to the guy, I gave him a growlite 315cmh ballast to look at last night, within an hour he had taken it apart, checked the components, rebuilt it with ferrite rings put around the power supply. His words were " really well built, all the rf interference shielding. but I can heat the start up at 8pm takes 5-10mins to quieten down then the him begins' The fuckers told me what time my lights come on, how many im running and the power it's taking.
I'm running LED too, he's even told me the harmonic scale that's affected by the led drivers. I've spoken with MIGRO he assured me they are built to standards... Still having issues with him. I know it's cause his set up is so safisticated, previously I've had 10 lights on running for 8yrs non stop, no issues untill I switched to digi ballast that's the first time he discovered my set up. the fucker was walking around the streets looking for the signals.
 
conor c

conor c

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DreadyBob said:
that's for your input dude, my neighbour is a HAM radio fanatic, when I say radio shack in the shed, he's got over 40k's worth of equipment. I'm speaking to the guy, I gave him a growlite 315cmh ballast to look at last night, within an hour he had taken it apart, checked the components, rebuilt it with ferrite rings put around the power supply. His words were " really well built, all the rf interference shielding. but I can heat the start up at 8pm takes 5-10mins to quieten down then the him begins' The fuckers told me what time my lights come on, how many im running and the power it's taking.
I'm running LED too, he's even told me the harmonic scale that's affected by the led drivers. I've spoken with MIGRO he assured me they are built to standards... Still having issues with him. I know it's cause his set up is so safisticated, previously I've had 10 lights on running for 8yrs non stop, no issues untill I switched to digi ballast that's the first time he discovered my set up. the fucker was walking around the streets looking for the signals.
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Hope the guys alright can keep his mouth shut n that bud ?
 
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DreadyBob

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conor c said:
Hope the guys alright can keep his mouth shut n that bud ?
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ye he's sound dude, he doesn't really care as long as his 'hobby" is ok. The annoying thing is the freq the complains about, he speak to a chap about 5 miles away and only on a Wednesday evening. The fucker speaks to the ISS, South Pole, North Pole, otherside.of the world no issues, Yet 5 miles away... wish he just used his mobile ffs.
 
conor c

conor c

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DreadyBob said:
ye he's sound dude, he doesn't really care as long as his 'hobby" is ok. The annoying thing is the freq the complains about, he speak to a chap about 5 miles away and only on a Wednesday evening. The fucker speaks to the ISS, South Pole, North Pole, otherside.of the world no issues, Yet 5 miles away... wish he just used his mobile ffs.
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Use a phone agreed lol
 
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