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Subject: Re: Halogen Lamps, too
Summary: FCC controls
Keywords: FCC, dimmers, noise
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.014825.11113@mdivax1.uucp>
Date: 23 Nov 90 01:48:25 GMT
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In article <JON_SREE.90Nov20113948@world.std.com> jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) writes:
>Incidentally, the thing [500W Halogen lamp with dimmer] is really noisy, 
>electrically. [...]
>Are they allowed to put out so much junk [RF noise]?

I could be wrong, but the way I understand it, FCC in the United States 
regulates radio frequency equipment.  This includes computers, which are
producing video output, monitors, cellular phones, etc.

What is not regulated are items that produce RF by accident, such as 
refrigerators, automobiles, vacuum cleaners, and, of course, dimmers.

All kinds of noise pollution out there.  I think the items regulated fall
into the same categories here in Canada, but I have no idea about Europe,
Asia, Australia, etc.

--Gavin McLaren
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