My neighbor complained of AM radio interference !!!

[eyeball]

I live in a mobil home park and my neighbor. ( older lady ) asked me if I had some kind of fancy electrical equipment because she can't get her AM radio during certain hours...
Im running 3 1000w 240v lumitec electronic ballasts and a 15, 000 btu through window a/c...
So I'm sure it's the electronic ballasts ( side note; it doesn't effect my cable)..
My Question is where is the interference coming from, the ballast its self. the wire that goes into the ballast, the wire coming out and going go the bulb or the bulb its self...

Whats the solution... buy magnetic ballasts or can I re-wire with something....
I think for now I'll run the lights while she's at work.. 6am ish till when ever she gets home.. what sucks is she lives by herself and only has a radio, no tv or internet..
Thanks...

 

[AimAim]

If you can't talk down an old lady about her AM radio not sure you should be growing.

What she needs is a boyfriend and she will forget about her AM radio. Since you are right there anyway, you could fill her needs, so to speak, while protecting your own grow interests.

Man up

 

[dbkick]

lumatek? those ballasts that are notorious for rfi and high thd but everyone seems to praise?? no fucking way!

 

[eyeball]

If you can't talk down an old lady about her AM radio not sure you should be growing.

What she needs is a boyfriend and she will forget about her AM radio. Since you are right there anyway, you could fill her needs, so to speak, while protecting your own grow interests.

Man up

Dude the last thing I need is a nosey old lady... by the way, I read a post of your journal and I'm not growing 4 or 6 plants under one 600w light...maybe you should man up and get a real grow....

 

[sunni]

Dude the last thing I need is a nosey old lady... by the way, I read a post of your journal and I'm not growing 4 or 6 plants under one 600w light...maybe you should man up and get a real grow....

he was joking with you relax

 

[slowbus]

he was joking with you relax

easy there momma

 

[eyeball]

he was joking with you relax

I'm cool..
I just didn't think it was a joking matter.. it would be different if he or she could speak on RF frequency and then say a joke... but to tell me that maybe I shouldn't be growing and to man up... I had to say something... I wouldn't have let it go back and fourth.. please remember that I was just confronted by my neighbor..

 

[banks dank]

Dude the last thing I need is a nosey old lady... by the way, I read a post of your journal and I'm not growing 4 or 6 plants under one 600w light...maybe you should man up and get a real grow....

lmao so plant number=your a man

A real man wouldnt get so offended at a post on a online forum...

Btw you answered your own question buy another ballast your sucks obviously.

And if it still persists tell the old lady you listen to the radio online and show
her how to use online radio im sure that would work.

 

[mightyBUMone]

Tell her no. period.

Maybe offer to check her connections (no pun intended).

If it's not fucking up your cable, 15 ft away, why would it interfere with hers?

Maybe ask what show she listens to or try to get any am frequency right next to your ballasts? Since you say that's all it's effecting.

think for yourself rather than what some random on the net will tell you. And don't get butthurt over a random answer from who the fuck cares...


P.s. I still agree on the two birds with one stone. But fuck me right, I'm not man enough to run 3k in a trailer....

 

[AimAim]

Sorry I offended you brother, I was just jokin around.

How much lighting would I need to buy to be a man like you? I'm also curious as to what I would do with all the weed I could grow with 3000K of lighting? I don't sell it, just grow for myself and for gifting to others. I thought 600K suited my needs pretty perfectly but I guess I'm missing out.

 

[Jbone77]

Sorry I offended you brother, I was just jokin around.

How much lighting would I need to buy to be a man like you? I'm also curious as to what I would do with all the weed I could grow with 3000K of lighting? I don't sell it, just grow for myself and for gifting to others. I thought 600K suited my needs pretty perfectly but I guess I'm missing out.

Im hoping to be able to have a 3000 watt 15000btu window ac trailer park grow when I grow up n make it to the big leagues, that sounds like a fabulous existence.

 

[Moldy]

Maybe buy a new radio and see if your ballasts interfere with that one and if it does take it back to the store get your money back. If no interference then give it to the old lady and say you don't like radio but it was a gift so she can have it... yada, yada.

My dad lived in Chi town during prohibition. Someone stole all his tires off his car but when he told the housing mgr. about it he had new tires on his car in a half hour. He didn't know where they came from but later found out it was mob as they didn't want the police nosing around in the neighborhood so they just put new tires on his car.

 

[BigEasy1]

Oh I how yearn to be a trailer park grower. This reminds me of the joke about Arkansas. It goes something like this:

Did you hear the Arkansas Governors mansion burned to the ground last night?

No, I did not hear that.

Yeah man, all they found was two axles.

 

[JMD]

I live in a mobil home park and my neighbor. ( older lady ) asked me if I had some kind of fancy electrical equipment because she can't get her AM radio during certain hours...
Im running 3 1000w 240v lumitec electronic ballasts and a 15, 000 btu through window a/c...
So I'm sure it's the electronic ballasts ( side note; it doesn't effect my cable)..
My Question is where is the interference coming from, the ballast its self. the wire that goes into the ballast, the wire coming out and going go the bulb or the bulb its self...

Whats the solution... buy magnetic ballasts or can I re-wire with something....
I think for now I'll run the lights while she's at work.. 6am ish till when ever she gets home.. what sucks is she lives by herself and only has a radio, no tv or internet..
Thanks...

No doubt it's the ballasts. Get some fine wire mesh, encase the ballasts in it and ground it - you got yourself a faraday cage.