Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wucs1!jps
From: jps@wucs1.wustl.edu (James Sterbenz)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: need help to reduce a monitor's squeal
Message-ID: <339@wucs1.wustl.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 88 20:49:21 GMT
References: <716@pedsga.UUCP>
Reply-To: jps@wucs1.UUCP (James Sterbenz)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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In article <716@pedsga.UUCP> jeffj@pedsga.UUCP writes:
>I have a question worthy of the net's collective wisdom.
>My hearing extends into the high frequency end (>15kHz).

>I can hear several terminals and televisions 'squeal'.
>I understand that this is the flyback transformer at the scan frequency.

>Is there anything I can do to attentuate the squeal?
>How about a coating on the transformer?  Inside the cabinet?

I've got the same problem, and with TV monitors, as well.
Last time I tested, I could hear above 23KHz.  While using
one particular set of terminals I had to use ear plugs.  If
you have to resort to this, try using the little foam cylindrical
ones.  Thery're very comfortable.  Now, I just use a portable
CD, which seems to mask most of the noise (and monitors seem to be getting
better, in general, and I suppose I'm starting to lose high 
frequency response with age).

BTW, who ever thought that 22.04KHz frequency response was adequate
for CD's?

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James Sterbenz  Computer and Communications Research Center
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