This RFI kit is specifically designed to suppress interference triggered by today's smart appliances used in the kitchen and household that act as "transmitters" and affect other appliances or radio/TV/Cable audio systems OR these appliances may act as "receiver" of energy from other devices such as ham radio, CB, AM broadcast and other electronic devices in the home. The problem is generally the AC power cable acting as an "antenna" picking up or transmitting signals.
The RFI kit has ferrite filters are selected to eliminate RFI from 1 to 300 MHz and are typically used on the AC power lie of your Washer, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator and AC powered Clocks and Lamps. The filters are easy to install, don’t require modification of the protected equipment and work in almost all cases.
What is included in the kit?
The RFI kit contains 3 ring filters (1.4" ID), 1 large snap on (1" ID) and 2 smaller (1/2" ID) snap on filters for clock or lamps. Installation examples are shown in the included manual. Simple, easy to install and effective in almost all conditions.
A simple ferrite ring filter on the DC power line can help suppress the RFI noise affecting the victim device or keep the DC power cord from acting as an antenna and radiating RFI into other victim devices. This kit is also useful on laptop computer supplies, routers, cable modems, wireless phone charges, etc.
Installation is quick and easy: Just wrap the DC power cord through the center of the ring filter as many times as you can and reinstall. For best results with long DC power lines, use one at the ring filter at the wall wart end (to prevent the wall wart power supply from using the DC line as an antenna) and another at the DC plug end (to prevent the electronics in the powered device from using the DC power cord as an antenna). Typical installation is shown below:
The filter suppresses RFI in from .1-100 MHz. Inside diameter is 3/4 inch/19 mm.
Since most households and office environments have multiple wall warts we offer the Wall Wart RFI Filter kit in bulk quantity packages.
Known RFI Generators include Roku/Sling-TV power adapter - Interference heard in the AM broadcast band and harmonics. Also many ethernet Cable/DSL modems, cell phone chargers, computer power adapters have the same issue: using the AC or DC side of the power supply as a radiating antenna. RFI solution is to use a linear power supply, change adapters or wall wart ferrite filters