Fluorescent ballasts interfering with ADSL?

[Peter Hucker]

My ADSL has started giving up - at night. Just wondering - are my (or the the council's) electronic ballasats (my house compact fluorescents or the council's streetlamps) interfering with it? Google tells me ballasts operate from 32.75 to 50kHz, and ADSL operates from 25.875 kHz to 1.104 MHz. Possible?

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Sheep would be too obvious.

 

If its a growlux or some other gardening /pet light.
I know of some people putting a rectifier in to turn it into DC electric,
Apparently it gives out less interference.. White Widow in full flower
oscillates at around 455 kHz

 

[Peter Hucker]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 09:20:25 +0100, <simplesimon@hotmail.com> wrote:

If its a growlux or some other gardening /pet light.
I know of some people putting a rectifier in to turn it into DC electric,
Apparently it gives out less interference.. White Widow in full flower
oscillates at around 455 kHz

They will be happy if I feed my compact fluorescents DC? Rectified to the peak value of mains?

Anyway, I don't think that will help, the interference occurs whether or not I have any of my lights running. Must be streetlighting, or something completely different - like yet another dodgy connection on the world's worst telephone system.

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[Jerry G.]

You should have the telephone company check that out for you. I have seen
bad telephone lines from water getting in to their outside terminal blocks,
loose connections, defective line equipment, defective telephone unit on the
line, or defective insulation cause services interference, but not anything
else.

I have never seen a compact florescent interfere with DSL or ADSL service. I
have seen these types of lights interfere with AM and some Short Wave radio
reception, and with TV type remote controls only.

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Jerry G.
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"Peter Hucker" <peter@hucker.plus.com> wrote in message
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My ADSL has started giving up - at night. Just wondering - are my (or the
the council's) electronic ballasats (my house compact fluorescents or the
council's streetlamps) interfering with it? Google tells me ballasts
operate from 32.75 to 50kHz, and ADSL operates from 25.875 kHz to 1.104 MHz.
Possible?

--
11 parrots and increasing, photos at http://www.petersparrots.com

Why are there Marines on Navy ships?
Sheep would be too obvious.