bmaraldo@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Commander Brett Maraldo) (02/12/88)
Here's an odd little ditty. I have a 'constant voltage transformer' that I use as a line filter on my audio equipment. I only use it when I am doing serious listening as it draws 8amps load/no-load. When I have the audio amps plugged into the regular house circuit, the heat sinks get warm to the touch when the system is idling. The heat generated is not large, and is to be expected. The system also emits a quiet hum in the left channel. I hard wired another amp into the pre-amp section of my integrated amp and I am assuming the hum is caused by a ground loop problem somewhere. Here is the interesting bits: Sometime the hum doesn't exist, but it is there most of the time. Also, when I connect the system to the constant voltage xformer, and let the amps idle for a while, the heat sinks stay cool. What is going on here? Brett L Maraldo -- -------- Unit 36 Research --------- "Alien Technology Today" bmaraldo@watdcsu.waterloo.edu {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,utzoo}!watmath!watdcsu!bmaraldo
jeffw@midas.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow) (02/23/88)
Sounds to me like you didn't quite clean up all that mercury... :-) Jeff Winslow