May I suggest getting a couple high quality LED bulbs. CREE and other brands have a high Power Factor. The intermittent power factor swings of the washer may be jacking with the PF of the cheap bulbs.
Thank you, Maverick > On Sep 21, 2019, at 1:44 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
