High-frequency noise riding on your home wiring, where it comes from, and what a reading actually tells you.
Dirty electricity is the common name for high-frequency voltage transients riding on a building’s ordinary 60 Hz wiring. Modern electronics create it constantly: dimmer switches, LED drivers, solar inverters and switch-mode power supplies all chop current on and off thousands of times per second, and that switching noise travels through every circuit in the house. FieldWise measures dirty electricity as one of the four field types in a full home assessment across Fort Collins and Northern Colorado, and throughout Colorado and Wyoming, identifies which devices are producing it, and documents the pattern in a written room by room report with practical, prioritized reduction steps. We report where transients are elevated relative to your own home’s baseline and to Building Biology SBM-2015 methodology.
The Sources
Anything that converts or chops power is a candidate: dimmers, LED bulb drivers, variable-speed motors, induction cooktops, computers and their chargers, and solar inverters. The rooftop array itself is not the usual story; the inverter that converts DC panels to AC house current is the component worth measuring, before and after installation.
Because the transients ride the wiring, the source and the reading are often in different rooms. A bedroom can read elevated because of a device two circuits away. That is why measurement walks the whole house rather than spot-checking a single outlet.
The Method
Readings are taken circuit by circuit, then repeated with suspect devices unplugged, which is how a specific source gets identified rather than guessed. The result is a short, ordered list: which devices contribute most and which readings are simply normal for a modern home.
The goal is not elimination, but intentional optimization. A house full of electronics will never read like a cabin, and it does not need to. The value is knowing which two or three changes move the number and which would just be spending.
Solar
A pre-installation baseline plus a post-installation comparison is the clean way to know what an inverter added, and it usually points to placement and filtering options while choices are still cheap. FieldWise offers solar pre and post installation checks as part of its assessment work.
Questions
It is one of four distinct things an assessment measures. RF covers wireless signals, AC magnetic and electric fields come from wiring and voltage, and dirty electricity is high-frequency noise on the wiring itself. Each is measured differently and has different fixes.
Yes, it’s possible. Filters change how electrical noise behaves in your wiring, and depending on your home’s setup, that can sometimes make the noise worse in certain spots instead of better. Moving your bed or workspace farther from outlets and wiring is usually a safer fix, since it lowers exposure without changing anything in your electrical system. As always, the only way to know for sure is to measure before and after.
The Foundational Assessment at $850 covers all four field types plus your lighting. A focused visit can be arranged if dirty electricity is the specific concern, for example around a planned solar installation.
Not automatically. Inverter model, placement and wiring layout all matter, which is exactly why a before-and-after measurement beats a rule of thumb.
Every assessment is performed personally by founder Cameron Castaneda and ends with a written room-by-room report with prioritized next steps. Appointments run Monday through Sunday, 8am to 6pm. Call (970) 436-7611 or book a discovery call.