Re: [Soekris] NET6501: high pitched tone from the board

2016-01-26 Thread gavrik peterson
It appears that C427 and C418 are 2.5V electrolytic capacitors. Their low voltage rating suggests that they are associated with a switch-mode regulator that supplies power to the CPU. Notice that the inductors, L30 and L31​, are very close to the place you identified as the source of sound. I sugge

Re: [Soekris] NET6501: high pitched tone from the board

2016-01-26 Thread Muffinman
Hello both, Thanks for your replies. Fortunately I found a way to crank up the noise and bring it a bit under my control. By accident I found out that putting some strain on the Nginx http server increases the tone significantly. It doesn't seem to matter whether the data comes from an externally