{"id":21788,"date":"2026-08-25T02:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21788"},"modified":"2026-08-25T02:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:55:14","slug":"switch-mode-power-supplies-cause-rf-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21788","title":{"rendered":"Switch Mode Power Supplies Cause RF Interference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The linear power supply is not efficient but it does not create large amounts of RF interference.\u00a0 The cheap SMPSes leave out the inductors and capacitors that filter out the RF interference, making them cause any receiver to receive &#8220;hash&#8221; &#8211; constant noise that blocks reception.<br><br>I put a power line filter at the power input of a 30V, 10 amp adjustable power supply and it dramatically reduced the interference it was causing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all about money.\u00a0 They cut corners to make it cheaper and the result is your AM and other radios can no longer receive distant stations and local stations are affected too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The linear power supply is not efficient but it does not create large amounts of RF interference.\u00a0 The cheap SMPSes leave out the inductors and capacitors that filter out the RF interference, making them cause any receiver to receive &#8220;hash&#8221; &#8211; constant noise that blocks reception. I put a power line filter at the power<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21788\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,7,4815,164,251],"tags":[1359,4818,4816,4817],"class_list":["post-21788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am-band","category-radio-frequency","category-rfi","category-smps-dc-dc-converters","category-transformer-transformers","tag-rf-interference","tag-rfi","tag-smps","tag-switch-mode-power-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21789,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21788\/revisions\/21789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}