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Finding powered subwoofers problematic

abailey63
I am staying in this house where the person has a couple of powered
subwoofers. One large home theatre onkyo and a computer altec lansing
one. I've never had problems with these before but I find I need to
power them off to sleep. Does anyone have any experience with why a
powered subwoofer would be particularly "noisy" from a power
perspective. They both have the transformer power bricks.

Thanks, Alan

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Re: Finding powered subwoofers problematic

BiBrun
It may depend what frequency the brick switches at.
Also, if the dirty power leaks into the coils in the speaker
then they act like a big magnet/ antenna.

When playing they also put out ELF magnetic fields in the audible
frequency ranges.

Bill

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM, abailey63 <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I am staying in this house where the person has a couple of powered
> subwoofers. One large home theatre onkyo and a computer altec lansing
> one. I've never had problems with these before but I find I need to
> power them off to sleep. Does anyone have any experience with why a
> powered subwoofer would be particularly "noisy" from a power
> perspective. They both have the transformer power bricks.
>
> Thanks, Alan
>
>
>


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Re: Finding powered subwoofers problematic

abailey63
Thanks for the insight. I was wondering if there is a way to find out
what frequency it would switch at. I take it it is not at 60hz would
the voltage (i.e. 12v) be in indicator?

Thanks, Alan

--- In [hidden email], "Bill Bruno" <wbruno@...> wrote:

>
> It may depend what frequency the brick switches at.
> Also, if the dirty power leaks into the coils in the speaker
> then they act like a big magnet/ antenna.
>
> When playing they also put out ELF magnetic fields in the audible
> frequency ranges.
>
> Bill
>
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM, abailey63 <abailey63@...> wrote:
>
> > I am staying in this house where the person has a couple of powered
> > subwoofers. One large home theatre onkyo and a computer altec lansing
> > one. I've never had problems with these before but I find I need to
> > power them off to sleep. Does anyone have any experience with why a
> > powered subwoofer would be particularly "noisy" from a power
> > perspective. They both have the transformer power bricks.
> >
> > Thanks, Alan
> >
> >  
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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Re: Finding powered subwoofers problematic

BiBrun
I don't know of a way-- except holding it up to a spectrum analyzer,
analyzing the circuit theoretically, or possibly looking it up on the FCC
website ( I posted a link to the site a few days ago) if you can find the
FCC ID number.

I think usually they are a few tens of kilohertz or up to 200 kHz.
There will be strong harmonics above that I assume.

Bill

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:48 PM, abailey63 <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks for the insight. I was wondering if there is a way to find out
> what frequency it would switch at. I take it it is not at 60hz would
> the voltage (i.e. 12v) be in indicator?
>
> Thanks, Alan
>
>
> --- In [hidden email] <eSens%40yahoogroups.com>, "Bill Bruno"
> <wbruno@...> wrote:
> >
> > It may depend what frequency the brick switches at.
> > Also, if the dirty power leaks into the coils in the speaker
> > then they act like a big magnet/ antenna.
> >
> > When playing they also put out ELF magnetic fields in the audible
> > frequency ranges.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM, abailey63 <abailey63@...> wrote:
> >
> > > I am staying in this house where the person has a couple of powered
> > > subwoofers. One large home theatre onkyo and a computer altec lansing
> > > one. I've never had problems with these before but I find I need to
> > > power them off to sleep. Does anyone have any experience with why a
> > > powered subwoofer would be particularly "noisy" from a power
> > > perspective. They both have the transformer power bricks.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Alan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>


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