Hi,

Before my wife and I rip our hair out in frustration I was wondering if any of you clever guys & gals knew of a way to stop the amplified Ripple Signals in the mains from making our expensive ceiling fans really noisy and our lights from flickering ?

We put up with it in our old house thinking it may have had something to do with the somewhat dodgy wiring etc. however just before we advertised the house for sale I replaced the fans with brand new $30 cheapies and took our beautiful $300 jobbies with us Thing is they're just as noisy in our current house as they were in our last house ... and that's even using different controllers and all ! In fact I've now tried three different types of controller on these fans but to no avail ... the old fashioned huge klunky transformer type, the newer 3 or 4 speed klunky rotary switch type and the even nicer smooth rotary knob type (which are the ones that originally came with the good fans but we left in the old house).

We now need to find a solution because we refuse to join the Air Conditioning energy guzzling bandwagon so we rely on ceiling fans to keep our cool on those hot Brisbane Summer nights (of which we're just starting to experience over 7 weeks later than usual).

Before I call the electricians in I thought there might be someone out there who could help with a DIY solution. I've got no problem doing any electrical work on the 'safe' side of the fusebox and have been doing it safely & well for many years so if there was some kind of filter I could install there would be no problem there ... I just don't know what to look for that's all (not that I've tried much).

I did find this on the 'net : http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent...ext=infopapers but that's really all I could find on the topic. It seems that no-one else I talk to has this problem but I'm sure they do going my that document.

Anyone have a solution ?