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Title: WG 4606 high pitched sound
Post by: Scottacus on February 26, 2015, 04:20:30 pm
I turned on my Gorf game earlier today and the WG 4606 had a great picture but made a high pitched sound while it was running.  This is the first time it did anything like this and I let the game run for about a half hour before turning it off.   I restarted the game after about 10 minutes or so it did not make the same sound again  Any ideas as to what this was?
Title: Re: WG 4606 high pitched sound
Post by: Scottacus on February 26, 2015, 07:11:01 pm
Here is a link to a recording that I made from just below the monitor inside the cab.  Because the sound is so high pitched, it is hard to tell exactly where it is coming from.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxG5uAhqDuKIdnA1YnA1aldsSjg/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxG5uAhqDuKIdnA1YnA1aldsSjg/view?usp=sharing)

The sound is not as loud as the recording makes it because I used a high quality condenser mic that was set fairly hot.
Title: Re: WG 4606 high pitched sound
Post by: Scottacus on February 26, 2015, 10:23:44 pm
My guess is that this high frequency sound is being caused by the Flyback Transformer, is this right and if so is there a fix short of replacing it?

Here are a couple of screen shots of the frequency of these signals in case that helps anyone figure out what is generating them.

(http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w478/themill_wi/Screen%20Shot%202015-02-26%20at%208.52.56%20PM_zps34ivfisp.png) (http://s1077.photobucket.com/user/themill_wi/media/Screen%20Shot%202015-02-26%20at%208.52.56%20PM_zps34ivfisp.png.html)

There are a couple of smaller spikes at a lower frequency.

(http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w478/themill_wi/Screen%20Shot%202015-02-26%20at%208.54.04%20PM_zpskchhaome.png) (http://s1077.photobucket.com/user/themill_wi/media/Screen%20Shot%202015-02-26%20at%208.54.04%20PM_zpskchhaome.png.html)