Ray, I had a very similar issue a while back. The root cause turned out to be the dimming switch and related LED bulbs. Instant fix.
Hope this helps. -Chris On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 2:45 PM Ray <r...@solarray.com> wrote: > Greetings Esteemed Wrenches; > > We have a customer with a new high efficiency washer running on a Magnum > inverter. When it is in wash cycle, the LED lights flicker rhythmically > with its operation. We can see a corresponding distortion of the wave > form on an oscilloscope, but RMS voltage is steady at 117 vac. It does > not cause trouble with incandescent lighting, and the washer works fine. > > My questions: > > 1) Has anyone else seen washing machines causing trouble with lighting > or other loads? > > 2) Is there any line filtering available that might cure this? > > 3) Are some LED lights more prone to issues? We are considering > having the customer switch from the Home Depot cheapo LEDs to Phillips > or other higher end bulbs. > > 4) Could it be related to the bulbs being dimmable? Should we be using > non-dimmable bulbs? > > As always thanks in advance for your invaluable input and comments. > > > -- > Ray Walters > Remote Solar > 303 505-8760 > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > -- Chris Sparadeo C_802-369-4458 H_802-728-3059
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