Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

  

Author Topic: Speakers loud pop when powering cabinet & momentary voltage on GND plane  (Read 1303 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

keropi

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 161
  • Last login:December 28, 2022, 11:06:35 am
  • I want to build my own arcade controls!
Hiya!

I finally started putting stuff inside my wooden cabinet - a POLO 28" monitor - a groovymame pc with JPAC and 2.1 Creative speakers. When I press the power button on the cab the tube/chassis and speakers get power and turn on. There is a 2nd push button that starts/stops the pc in the cab.
When I power on and the chassis does it's deguass stuff there is an annoying loud pop (parasite-like) from the speakers.
I also noticed that the ground plane of the chassis has voltage that quickly diminishes completely after 1-2 secs . The same happens on power-down - no speaker pop/parasite since the power gets cut-off from the switch but there is diminishing voltage on the ground plane (I only have an electrician's test screwdriver here atm so I just see the test light dying slowly)

The tube/pc work fine after that but I didn't leave it on for much time just in case there was a leak or something. My theory is that the speaker parasite is because the chassis dumps current on the ground plane during degauss and after power-down the bleed capacitor also dumps current at the ground plane again.

Is this the case or I should start looking for a short-circuit?   :banghead:
I have stopped working on the cab atm because I don't want to kill anything   :dizzy:

TIA for any help/tips!

edit:
solved it's normal after all - a good friend confirmed after looking at the polo schematics and mentioning that test screwdrivers are not the best tool for checking this  :cheers:
« Last Edit: December 31, 2016, 08:30:28 am by keropi »