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I’d see if you can find a circuit diagram for the equipment, then compare it against what you actually have.
It might be that there was a genuine issue with the equipment that was fixed, or it might be that the fix was actually something else entirely.
There’s no way for us to know what you’re dealing with.
That is gold. Thanks for the site.
Call their behaviour out in the community?
A bot that reveals that behaviour to the community would be very helpful.
I would be extremely careful, since it failed for a reason and you were very lucky not to set the house on fire, which looks like it came pretty close to.
At a certain level every restaurant is up selling something from someone, if not Popeye, then the local supermarket, local wholesaler, butcher, farmer, family member …
Can you use a crystal oscillator and multiply or divide the signal as required, rather than use software, or do you need the flexibility that software provides?
I’d challenge the restriction. I doubt that everything in the house is “UL listed”.
That said, the fear and concern is real. It’s why many such products run on 5 or 12 volts.
I’d also check if you are actually switching mains power, rather than sending a separate control signal to the WLED.
UL listed?
I don’t know what your specific antenna looks like.
Generally you connect close to the centre of the antenna, where the two elements are closest together, again without touching each other.
That said, there are antenna designs where this is not true.
Give us a link instead. That said, read on.
In general, antennas are not like a “normal” circuit where things need to connect to each other to work.
Most antennas are made of two halves or poles, hence the name, dipole.
A Yagi antenna is a dipole with separate elements to focus and reflect the radio waves. These elements are normally not connected to each other.
In a typical Yagi only one pair, the dipole, is the driven element. The many (shorter) elements are directors, the one (or two) behind the driven element is the reflector.
A coaxial cable has two conductive elements, the core (the middle bit of metal) and the shield (the outer braid). These should normally not connect to each other.
You connect each coax conductor to its own dipole element. It generally doesn’t matter which coax conductor connects to which dipole element.
Source: I’m a licensed radio amateur.
Fellow computer geek here … also a radio amateur.
No idea what the availability of circuit diagrams is for your gear. In amateur radio equipment the user manual regularly has them, sometimes as big foldout sheets. I’d be surprised if they didn’t exist.