I have a platinum machine, & when the pedal is pressed, my led lamp that I got, which uses a fancy touch multi setting color/brightness control will change settings! Thought it was related to surge in electrical output, so I ran a long extension cord to a different ring circuit, but same issue.
I am thinking it might be radio interference, I tried putting tin foil on the ac to dc adapter for the lamp, I am not sure if it has helped . Anyone have an issue like this?
I have two small LED Dazor spotlights and have never had any issues. Dazor makes very reliable products that hold up to heavy use.
After experimentation I have narrowed it down to the probeholder, if I hold it at certain positions with regards to the touch led lamp head it will interfere, the position of the machine makes no difference. Still stumped as to what I can do to shield it though
This is the item, it’s got touch sensors on the lamp head
You arent imagining it, I have the identical issue! I have a small LED touch lamp I use for directional lighting for blond and grey hairs.I’ve had it plunge me into darkness when wotking. I’ve had it do the “disco” routine while I work it’s enough to drive you crazy!My thought is its changing the voltage slightly and this is triggering it.
So you think it’s from a fluctuation in voltage rather than rf radiation emitted while using thermolysis (possibly blend, haven’t tried yet)?
I was leaning towards my theory since in the UK we have ring circuits as opposed to the branch types you have in Canada, Seana, & the fluctuation in one circuit shouldn’t register if on different ones, as I tried with my extension lead in the first post.
I have ordered some EM shielding fabric from Amazon, & intend to wrap my probeholder see if that blocks it. If this theory is true, than I must find a way to open up the lamp head & wrap the circuit board in this, it should work.
The circuit is detecting some kind of capacitance change causing the light to fluctuate it’s settings. It could be electrical feedback ( which we could prove one way or another by putting the lamp on an independent power source, or, more likely even the sensor detecting some portion of the RF pulse ( which could happen too). What I can tell you, is I have often witnessed it happening with every push of my pedal, watching it change the light status each time I do so.I’ve had some extremely electronics savvy people on my table when this has occurred, and they thought it was maybe a problem with the light itself, but I’ve not done a ton of diagnosis on the issue since I have much more important matters to attend to.
Seana, I will get back to you after I get my em blocking fabric tomorrow.
I have had the issue before on my previous lamp, which was a click button lamp, though to a lesser extent than my current touch button lamp.
Hi
Did the EM fabric work?
I have no idea if Zapp will see this ( I think they are still around? ) but I can say at this point I think they were on the right track. I still see some of this, but these days I do a lot to keep the needle cord and the light away from each other, and honestly doing that it’s a lot less of an issue. If your cords are coming ajacent to each other ( the needle cord and the light power cord) then it will trigger it almost every time. Understanding this, you can work around the issue
@Iluv2zap I had an electrician tell me its something with the touch lights , cheap unshielded ones and the RF of the thermolysis , the electrician shield the light in alfoil (aluminium foil) and the problem ceased . They said the light was below the proper safety standards (for Australia) and should be returned .
I’m not an electrician but it seemed that any lights that are interfered with by the RF aren’t real safe to use.
This is just what i was told .