Slight whine in radio

Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by deerslayer1143, Apr 21, 2011.

  1. deerslayer1143

    deerslayer1143 Light Load Member

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    I'm getting a little whine I'm assuming from the ignition. Didn't notice it before now and it's probably since I wired direct to the big positive cable in the fuse block. It increases in intensity and pitch as the RPMs go up. It's not loud and barely audible at times but I'd like to make it go away. What's the best way to do that? Some sort of filter in the positive wire for the cb?
     
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  3. Ridgerunner665

    Ridgerunner665 Road Train Member

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    The easiest way...change the power source.

    Hook it into a different "hot" source.
     
  4. kd5drx

    kd5drx <strong>Master of Electronic Communications</stron

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    it goes up and down with rpm its probably altenator whine. ground your alt to the frame
     
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  5. Diesel Dave

    Diesel Dave Last Few of the OUTLAWS

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    I have a similiar problem when I turn on my lights. And I have mine hook up to the upper console, you know the factory hook up for a Pete.
     
  6. deerslayer1143

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    Come to think of it I hear the directionals and wipers now too. Could it be because I ran the ground to the battery instead of the chassis? I did that the same time I ran the positive to the big battery terminal in the fuse block.
    I didn't notice any of this when hooked to the factory hookups but decided it made no sense to have a heavy duty power cable because of the RFX75 and connect them to 16 gauge hookups.
     
  7. deerslayer1143

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    I bet it has more to do with the ground running to the battery rather than the chassis now that I think about it. I could hook the positive to the big red cable labeled Acc. instead but wanted to be able turn it on without turning the key on. I can try that too but I'm thinking it's the ground the more I think about it.
     
  8. usmc041127

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    I would try to make the ground cable as short as posible.
     
  9. deerslayer1143

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    Yeah I can run the ground wire itself right there in the fuse block without adding the 12 feet I did to get back to the batteries.
     
  10. xPosTech

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    You've probably got alternator whine. Moving the ground around won't get you a whole lot. The charging voltage has a lot of trash on it because there's no filtering on the output. As you add more draw the charging current goes up and so does the noise.

    As manufacturers cut back on costs, the power input filtering on radios got more and more ineffective. A really good aftermarket input filter is really expensive. Just check them out at any auto hi-fi shop. The cheap ones don't work very well.

    But there is a way to do it and not spend a whole lot of money. Since you are getting into repairing and modding radios you should make your own whine filter. I did. It works.

    Ted
     
  11. halfburn

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    Radio Shack had one years ago for about $40 bucks that worked well. I used them for new cars that had the whine in the radio.
     
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