Digital TV and the kitchen lights

[bigjimmy]

Does anyone here know why putting my Kitchen lights and digital TV on at the same time, causes the lights to flicker and the TV reception to go bad? Same happens to the digital radio in the kitchen.

The light fitting is a rail with three spotlights (Ice-cream cone shaped bulbs with normal filaments). Not a very important question but I cant get my head around it.

Anyone?

[Jonny_]

This happens to me with pretty much any electrical switch - lights, sockets, the knob on the cooker, the fridge kicking in or cutting out, etc. Basically anything that generates a small spark will affect it.

Boils down to Freeview and DAB being fundamentally a bit st when it comes to tolerating electromagnetic interference.

This stuff is the future - good, innit?

[Sciroccology]

It's reverse-oscillating ground loop, causing bi-lateral feedback in the condenser. This affects the nano-module capacitor and reduces flow-through in the bypass circuit.

Do you happen to know how many ohms your lights are rated at?

Adapters are available.

[bigjimmy]

I will have a look at the ohms thing. Well try anyway. I’m sick of washing up the dishes in the near dark while the wife watches her stories..

Hold on, there is something wrong here…..

[NDA]

Sciroccology said:

It's reverse-oscillating ground loop, causing bi-lateral feedback in the condenser. This affects the nano-module capacitor and reduces flow-through in the bypass circuit.

[marshalla]

Sciroccology said:

It's reverse-oscillating ground loop, causing bi-lateral feedback in the condenser. This affects the nano-module capacitor and reduces flow-through in the bypass circuit.

Do you happen to know how many ohms your lights are rated at?

Adapters are available.

All he needs to do is reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. 30 seconds with a decent sonic screwdriver and a sontaran wrench should do it.

[Zad]

Sounds like you have an iffy connection in the supply to the socket or to the lighting, maybe generating some arcing (sparks) which is generating interference.

[Col 666]

Are your kitchen lights low voltage downlights by any chance? Changing the transformers usually helps.

[bobthemonkey]

marshalla said:

Sciroccology said:

It's reverse-oscillating ground loop, causing bi-lateral feedback in the condenser. This affects the nano-module capacitor and reduces flow-through in the bypass circuit.

Do you happen to know how many ohms your lights are rated at?

Adapters are available.

All he needs to do is reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. 30 seconds with a decent sonic screwdriver and a sontaran wrench should do it.

No, no, no. Its the flux capacitor dammit.

[moparmick]

If you've got an amp in the loft but no socket, it may be wired into the lighting circuit and the connection could be shorting.

[mattley]

Jonny_ said:

Boils down to Freeview and DAB being fundamentally a bit st when it comes to tolerating electromagnetic interference.

And loads of EMI is fine in the standard domestic environment.

999 will still work as backup.