To: | "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>,"Tower Talk List" <towertalk@contesting.com> |
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Subject: | Re: [TowerTalk] Station Ground |
From: | "K8RI on Tower Talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net> |
Date: | Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:46:37 -0500 |
List-post: | <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com> |
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:16:11 -0500, Pete Smith wrote: But what do you do with equipment like the Icom 756 Pro that uses the mike shield as a neutral return to the PC board? I had an intermittent AC pickup. You know the kind that is always there, you make a change and it goes away... only to return the next time you use the rig. Grounding the shield worked well, as did just reaching up and touching any bare metal on the rig or amp. The hum would be gone. Other times it wasn't there at all. This is an old house and who knows where all the wiring goes, but I'd bet dollars to donuts there is a floating neutral *somewhere* on a circuit in the house. I can say with a pretty strong certainty it isn't on either circuit in this room. Unfortunately instead of seperate cirucits for the outlets and lights in each room they daisy chained them to save on circuit breakers. The kind where the lights in the living room are on the same circuit as the outlets in the garage. The outlets in the living room are on the same circuit as the lights in the back bedrooms which are on the same circuit as the bathroom. I've installed a 200 amp box, consumers has run in a new underground feed, I've added a second box with a transfer switch fed by a 9500 watt generator (for furnace, pump room lights, Microwave, refrigerator, freezer, *sump pump*, ham station, and yes... the TV in the living room along with enough lights upstairs to find our way around. Quite possibly as I eliminate circuits and break them into smaller sub units I will find the culprit. (I hope) I did at the time, try turning off breaker by breaker and I don't remember any positive results. I spent hours rerouting cables to find the signal quiet, but the hum was back the next time, or the time after that. The only thing that was sure fire as still continues to work is the grounding of the mike shield, but that eliminates about half of the mike functions. (often called "audio ground" or "control ground" on the mic connectors and the rear The socket is grounded to the chassis. Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member) N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2) www.rogerhalstead.com <snip> _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA. _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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