A warning about LED's ... especially near your VHF and AIS.

[mlines]

But LEDs themselves don’t produce any rf interference. At all. So carry on illuminating your masthead and nav indicators with LEDs, and sleep well at night. (OK, not while you’re on watch!)

Trouble is that most of the LED lights are not passive. As you say yourself, they have an LED driver even in the simplest of bulbs. Ferrite beads cured mine

 

[LoneHort]

US Coastguard issues note on LED lights

Hi folks,
An interesting bulletin has been issues by the US CoastGuard regarding to using LED lights and potential interference with VHF and AIS.
Details here,

https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/5p/CG-5PC/INV/Alerts/1318.pdf?ver=2018-08-16-091109-630

Kind regards,
Micheal

 

[Praxinoscope]

Re: US Coastguard issues note on LED lights

We’ve already had this thread, see ‘Warning about LED’. 18.08.18

 

[coopec]

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