Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-24 Thread Jan Ceuleers
On 06/10/2012 08:15 AM, Jan Ceuleers wrote: Is there anything I can do to stop the hissing? So I've now found some time to look into this more: - the problem remains when I remove the wireless card (so leaving only the CompactFlash card installed). - the problem does not change in any way if

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-18 Thread gavrik peterson
My 5501 has the same configuration as Jan's, and I am unable to notice any noise at all. The last time I checked my hearing it went up to 18kHz in the good ear. So I am having difficulty understanding why Jan is experiencing this noise and especially noise at such a high level. And the fact that

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-17 Thread Christopher Hoover
check any SMPS sections. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Jan Ceuleers jan.ceule...@computer.orgwrote: On 06/10/2012 08:15 AM, Jan Ceuleers wrote: Hi. I've been using net4801s and a net5501 as broadband routers for use at home for some time now. Generally great and fun. There's just

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-15 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 14 Jun 2012, at 19:29, Jan Ceuleers wrote: On 06/14/2012 08:08 PM, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, You (and the other consenting contributors to this thread) are lucky to have hearing good enough to hear these effects. Make the most of it, it won't last. You don't understand. I'm in my

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-15 Thread Jonathan Groll
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:27:08 -0700, JSL Internet inter...@jsl.com wrote: Jan, It is more likely that the noise you are hearing is coming from the magnetics rather than from any capacitors. There are planar transformers in the switching power supply and the Ethernet interface. Sometimes

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-15 Thread Jan Ceuleers
On 06/15/2012 09:27 AM, Bob Bishop wrote: I have to say I've never experienced this working with these boxes over many years, but maybe I've just never noticed. OK, back to the OQ then. A couple of questions: - Exactly what do you have plugged into the Soekris board? Ie, is it supplying

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-14 Thread Jan Ceuleers
On 06/10/2012 08:15 AM, Jan Ceuleers wrote: Hi. I've been using net4801s and a net5501 as broadband routers for use at home for some time now. Generally great and fun. There's just one down side: these boxes are not completely silent, in that they make a strange hissing sound while

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-14 Thread Jan Ceuleers
On 06/14/2012 08:08 PM, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, You (and the other consenting contributors to this thread) are lucky to have hearing good enough to hear these effects. Make the most of it, it won't last. You don't understand. I'm in my late 40s, and in my teens I was a sound equipment rental

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-14 Thread Stephen J Alexander
Sounds like maybe a cold solder joint problem. This doesn't seem to me like normal operation. Regards, Stephen J Alexander MPBX, LLC http://mpbx.com 832-713-6729 On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Jan Ceuleers jan.ceule...@computer.org wrote: On 06/14/2012 08:08 PM, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, You

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-14 Thread earl...@gmail.com
@lists.soekris.com Sent: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 13:29:05 CDT Subject: Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent On 06/14/2012 08:08 PM, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, You (and the other consenting contributors to this thread) are lucky to have hearing good enough to hear these effects. Make the most of it, it won't last

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-14 Thread RB
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:49 PM, earl...@gmail.com earl...@gmail.com wrote: You're lost. A complaining bitter old man. Nothing noisy about these. Maybe you are hearing your own tenitus or someone's vibrator. I don't recall crossing a troll bridge anywhere recently.

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-14 Thread Nix
On 14 Jun 2012, David Burgess told this: that buzz/ring/hiss sound that seems to vary with processing load. That's almost certainly the power supply's transformer coils buzzing according to power draw. silence is virtually unachievable with electronics, I

[Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-10 Thread Jan Ceuleers
Hi. I've been using net4801s and a net5501 as broadband routers for use at home for some time now. Generally great and fun. There's just one down side: these boxes are not completely silent, in that they make a strange hissing sound while they're doing actual work (like routing network traffic).

Re: [Soekris] Soekris boxen are not silent

2012-06-10 Thread JSL Internet
Jan, It is more likely that the noise you are hearing is coming from the magnetics rather than from any capacitors. There are planar transformers in the switching power supply and the Ethernet interface. Sometimes the transformer core material has a natural frequency harmonic in the audio