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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: need help to reduce a monitor's squeal
Summary: Silicone Goo
Message-ID: <1483@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 19:23:46 GMT
References: <716@pedsga.UUCP>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <716@pedsga.UUCP>, jeffj@pedsga.UUCP writes:
> 
> 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?

Its usually the mounting hardware for the HV transformer.  Try tightening
the mounting hardware.  Or rubber wedges around the transfomer coil.  or
just spreading a bunch of silicone caulk around the rectangular ferrite
tranformer core.

Mark Zenier	uunet!pilchuck!ssc!markz		
"He did decide, though, that with more time and a great deal of mental effort,
he could probably turn the activity into an acceptable perversion"-Mick Farren