Same thing happened here a few months ago....
Coupla things I learned from the cable guy who came to my place....who said he didn't smoke but had no problem with weed/etc...
I too..suspected my digis. I have both lumatek and quantum, fwiw.....
the guy was ALL over my house. I tried to steer him from the grow room but the main cable comes into the bedroom where I (at the time) was finishing up 12 plants so he ended up seeing my tent and checking the cable....
RF was all over the board.... 5khz (I think) and up. I wenmt out to my grow and got a lumatek and a quantum and brought em in to the living room and plugged em in to see if his meter went nuts. It DIDN'T.
Come to find out...at least at my house...the frequencies surrounding the ballast operation (60khz, I believe) we noisy...but NOT the problem.
what WAS the problem was the 20 year old cable wiring in the house...pre-internet/data transmission....and probably the cheapest crap the contractor could buy. After 20 years, the cable guy said it was just shot....and that it was the cable ITSELF sending the RF back into the system..not the ballasts.
just thought I'd mention what happened to me. I ended up running a new drop to my TV myself (to keep yet ANOTHER person from showing up @ the house) and that FIXED the problem.
BTW....the cable guy said that they scan for RF AT NIGHT in my area....not during the daytime..... again...FWIW.
good luck all
s h
exactly!!!
psfftttt if the cable guy or somebody comes a knocking and says some shit like that or you got hella rf noise coming from your house... give him the 'eh' face and tell him 'and?'
this is just like law and dealing with the cops. know what you are dealing with period.
back in the day, i may would have shit my pants... but as much geek and gadget shit i have now (that gives off noise).... i'd be hard pressed NOT to tell him to lick the left corner of my scrutom if he even mentioned some type of lighting
i mean sure enough to the OP (original poster) the shit CAN happen... but its soo much shit that can give off noise now and days.. like S H said...most of the time old ass wiring and cheap connectors and shit. we are in a better age...
you can also 'shield' the thing yourself if you are really worried