RFI from Magnetic Ballasts?

[TreehouseJ]

I had a major hiccup earlier this year with the cable company after purchasing a few cheap Ipower digital ballasts. Long story short, I was pissing hundreds of people off for 7-8 months before the cable company was able to contact us. They just kept snipping our line and adding noise filters until I was finally contacted.
Anyways, I switched locations, got myself a couple magnetic ballasts, and was wondering if they are still going to cause any RFI issues. I am still using the same lamp cords and cooltubes, and being that I don't really know the first thing about electronics and RFI (despite days of research) I figured I would just ask to be safe. How much RFI is going to be created by a couple 600w magnetics used in conjunction with the old lampcords, which were supposedly the main culprit of the RFI? Or will the switch to magnetic ballasts fix the problem altogether?

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Switching to magnetic ballasts should solve your problem.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

mag ballasts are UL rated 60Hz...same as your microwave

 

[CoCoSativas]

Basically the mags run 50-60 hertz, so like mostly anything g else we use around. Low frequency.

The majority of digital are high frequency like my gavitas. Should have just cut your cord short hung the ballast within a foot of the reflector and you are good to go. High frequency ballasts tend to run 20 000 to 200 000 hz so they basically broadcast high frequency interference.

Anyway no mags don't produce rfi, nor do e ballasts using square wave technology (hortilux platinum I kinda wanna try one) and you don't have to worry at all with high fequency ballasts if you cut the cord short.