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From: rdi@cci632.UUCP (Rick Inzero)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: need help to reduce a monitor's squeal
Summary: GM electronic dashboards are LOUD to me!
Message-ID: <19534@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 88 21:17:19 GMT
References: <716@pedsga.UUCP>
Reply-To: rdi@ccird3.UUCP (Rick Inzero)
Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY
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In article <716@pedsga.UUCP> jeffj@pedsga.UUCP writes:
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>I can hear several terminals and televisions 'squeal'.
>
>Isn't there an OSHA limit for such stuff?

My 1986 Buick Skylark has one of those digital electronic (blue fluorescent)
dashboards, and it produces a whine that I can hear quite well.  I can
hear the whine even with the engine running and the radio on.  
I wish someboby would set a limit on this noise!!  It's so loud
(to me), that I suppose it would be near deafining to a child (with even better
hearing than an adult).  Anyway... 
For the first six months I owned the car the whine *REALLY* bothered me (my 
wife couldn't hear it); I even took it to the dealer (who thought I was 
imagining it), without success.  Since the electronics are inaccessible in the 
dash, and I wasn't about to resell a brand new car, I finally learned to 
*IGNORE* it.  The whine never bothers me any more, and I really don't perceive 
it unless I actually concentrate on hearing it.  Maybe you can learn to 
"tune out" the squeal yourself as well...  

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