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Nobody? I know it's a hassle for someone here to put one on a scope (assuming there's a scope available to an end user) but I really hate to order something only to return it if it is a RFI generator.

I chose Victron because it is well appreciated in the solar community but their lack of simple answers to specific tech questions disappoints me. Most everything I own has come with fantastic tech support with answers to simple questions. I find it less than stellar to find an apparent & lack of information when I ask for technological info with a company I am paying big money to regarding their products. I shouldn't have to ask their user community for info the company's tech support should readily give when asked. It's disappointing.

@KA1J ….my advice is if you want to use any form of AM or SSB radio on the medium or HF bands, you will need to switch off the Orion. On my boat I have a Victron MPPT solar controller and an HF/amateur radio and prior to any receiving, the MPPT Controller has to be switched off and the fridge and the inverter must be switched off or the noise floor is so high absolutely no signals can be resolved.

The Orion will use similar switch mode techniques and we simply have to accept these days that RFI does not feature at all in an engineers criteria for a well designed circuit. RFI simply does not matter to anyone anymore apart from a couple strange characters like you and me.

Hi Trevor,

You may be right that today RFI is not considered criteria for good engineering. I have to say I'm amazed and disappointed this seems to be true. Considering how so much technology is considered disposable, not repairable I'm not surprised. My 65" LG TV has burn-in on the screen. It is 1/3 more expensive to repair/replace the screen than to buy this year's TV version.

I've always striven for excellence and to create an electronic device that emits low RFI and rejects other poorly designed equipment's RFI is to me quality designing. I personally can't fathom how someone could design a piece of equipment that inherently needs filtering like these switching systems do and then ignore the interference a device creates, only fulfilling the most basic of requirements for type acceptance, and call it good engineering. Pitiful.

So many solar power systems are part of a function that also requires communication equipment. To not strive for excellence in all aspects including low RFI/EMI means that equipment will be a hindrance, not an asset. It's truly disappointing. I suppose it is a sign of the times; call it engineering devolution.