do t5's or LED/COB LED mess with radio frequency???

gold lion

gold lion

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just gonna use a different outlet for now, I don't think I wanna mess with it unless I have to - is there any problem with just leaving it?

and yeah, went and checked like 10 more outlets throughout the house to check and everything else has been fine - just not the one next to the closet. im an idiot for not checking all of that first, beginners ought to learn about electric aspect of growing too I guess.
 
gold lion

gold lion

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well all is good. not sure exactly what fixed it but I can say make sure your cords and cables are connected tightly and CHECK YOUR OUTLETS BEFORE PLUGGING POWERFUL SHIT INTO THEM. thanks and happy growing lol
 
duchieman

duchieman

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Gold lion. I am a retired Broadband Cable Technician. I've worked with two of the biggest in Canada. "Noise" feeding back into the "cable plant" is something that we dealt with a lot. It's not necessarily a ballast and is most likely issues within your house. If you have installed any third party splitters or or cabling, or anything is damaged like a staple in a coax cable, this can also feed noise (unwanted frequency) back into the system. Most noticeably, it will knock out modems in the area. If you refuse to let them in and find the problem, then they'll just disconnect you from the plant.

Have you done anything like that differently, lately? Are you in a house, apt?
 
duchieman

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gold lion said:
well all is good. not sure exactly what fixed it but I can say make sure your cords and cables are connected tightly and CHECK YOUR OUTLETS BEFORE PLUGGING POWERFUL SHIT INTO THEM. thanks and happy growing lol
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Sorry, I missed this. Glad you found it. Yes...a lot of times it's just a loose connection and RF feeds back in. It's very understandable that all your neighbors are made when all are phoning in because their modems are getting knocked offline evertime the source comes alive. That's what makes it the hardest to find. Usually it's something that gets turned on and off, intermittently, making the problem intermittent, and frustrating to troubleshoot.
 
duchieman

duchieman

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Freddie Millergogo said:
Dude - you should turn off your cable until you figure shit out. You could get popped by the po po just cause you want to watch shitty TV.

Try unplugging your cable then ask the neighbors if they are having a problem.
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No. They will just install a filter on his line restricting it to download only and not allowing any upload data. Basically stopping all digital services.
 
duchieman

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Gquebed said:
I said obligated. I didnt say that they actually do.
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I just noticed that your in AB. I worked for Shaw for 2 of my years and honestly, there is nothing like that there. I don't even recall, in any of my training there, addressing the issue of even running into a garden, nevertheless suspecting an illegal grow from noise. I have a friend that still works there and is a maintenance tech there, chasing noise all the time. I'm gonna ask him for shits and giggles.
 
Gquebed

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duchieman said:
Yes. I saw what you wrote, and no they're not. There are so, so many things that cause noise in a cable plant and to assume everytime that it's a grow op is crazy. Most of the time it's store bought stuff like cheap coax and splitters and amateur wiring.
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Any citizen or business is obligated to report crime or a suspicion of a crime to police. That does not mean that every citizen or business does.

I did not say that that every instance of rf noise is assummed by cable companies to be caused by a grow, either.

I think you may have assumed that i said more than i did. No worries...

The only reason i let them into my place is because i am legal.
 
duchieman

duchieman

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Gquebed said:
Any citizen or business is obligated to report crime or a suspicion of a crime to police. That does not mean that every citizen or business does.

I did not say that that every instance of rf noise is assummed by cable companies to be caused by a grow, either.

I think you may have assumed that i said more than i did. No worries...

The only reason i let them into my place is because i am legal.
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Finding RF noise is not grounds for suspicion of a crime. Not even close. The only way a technician can determine what the noise is, correction, what is causing the noise, is by getting inside the house. To assume that it may be criminal is nuts and the cops would laugh at us if we called them in on that suspicion.
 
Gquebed

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duchieman said:
Finding RF noise is not grounds for suspicion of a crime. Not even close. The only way a technician can determine what the noise is, correction, what is causing the noise, is by getting inside the house. To assume that it may be criminal is nuts and the cops would laugh at us if we called them in on that suspicion.
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You can continue to refuse to understand what i said to save yourself embarassment if you like. But it doesnt change anything. The post are there and plain to read.

Now of all the assumptions that you made of my post why wouldnt you go for the simplest most obvious one? Which is what you finally got to in this post...

Or maybe you really are dumb.

So.. here you go... rf noise brings techs to a home where perhaps he or she recognizes signs of a grow...at which point that person is obligated to report.

Why you would assume anything otherwise is just dumb.
 
Lordhooha

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gold lion said:
ah yeah could be a legitimate cable problem for sure, I know nothing at all about this stuff but setting up the Internet n cable was hell and thought then maybe there were problems, works flawlessly now tho for our house at least. weird.

cops wouldn't put on that ruse to check out a such a small grow would they? I guess I refuse to be paranoid in that way but it is fucking absurd that anyone anywhere would be in trouble for growing plants xD makes me want to go into law for a career.
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I worked in the networking industry up until a year ago. Fluorescent lights are able to interfere however usually only when the cables run over the top. Then it just a matter of running shielded cables.
 
ttystikk

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My cheap ass hydro store bought Chinese digital ballasts created an awful EMI racket, to the point where I just cut my cable and went to 4G from my phone service lol

However so far as I am aware, LED chips all run on DC current, which doesn't create interference.
 
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churchhaze

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You people getting mad at the cable company are 100% unreasonable. Fix your interference problem. Your neighbors hate your guts and with good reason. If you act like a bad person, bad things will happen to you.
 
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duchieman

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churchhaze said:
DC just comes out of the wall? Where do you live, teslaville?
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Uhm....no it doesn't. Smoke another one Einstein. AC current is what runs our cities. It was Tesla that developed AC current and beat Edisons DC system out and the worlds fair. That is why the standard today is AC. Now I've fucking heard everything.
 
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churchhaze

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duchieman said:
Uhm....no it doesn't. Smoke another one Einstein. AC current is what runs our cities. It was Tesla that developed AC current and beat Edisons DC system out and the worlds fair. That is why the standard today is AC. Now I've fucking heard everything.
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Yeah, got that backwards. I wasn't a history major. Of course DC doesn't come out of the sockets. LED drivers are almost all switch-mode, which means they operate at a high frequency even if the output is DC. Way to miss the whole point of the post.
 
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