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- From: mig@labdien.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Problem with Motorola Power Modem's Ferrite Bead
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 04:57:05 GMT
- Organization: Columbia University, New York
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- Try moving the transformer and power cord to a location away from your
- monitor. You are getting magnetic interference. It is probably 60 Hz, not
- really radio frequency radiation from the *modem*, just a little stray
- electromagnetism from the AC *transformer/cord*.... Let us know if this
- helps. -Meir
-
- In article <4ii7i8$ng1@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>,
- Calvin <yu143090@yorku.ca> wrote:
- >Hi everybody,
- > I have problem with installing the clamp-on "Ferrite Bead" with my
- >Power modem. Since I have been told and warned to install that stuff to
- >prevent "excess radio frequency increasing the chance of interference" of such
- >as T.V. I have clamped the ferrite bead on the power cord near the modem
- >(just close the where I plug the power cord into my modem) as the "extra" menu
- >said. BUT BUT! I still got "INTERFERENCE" to my monitor. I see some radio
- >wave shape lines spreading and moving across my monitor! So did I clamp the
- >Ferrite Bead on WRONG POSITION?
- >
- >Please help!!!
- >Calvin
- >
- >Cavlin Yung
- >Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/2238/
- >Email: yu143090@yorku.ca
-
-
- Meir Israel Green Student Dept of Computer Science (GS/JTS '96)
- Director Jewish Student Information on the Internet
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- mig@columbia.edu http://www.columbia.edu/~mig/
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