HELP I think I have an electrical issue??


A few months ago I had 2 20amp dedicated lines with hospital grade duplex's installed. All was well with my Bel Canto Ref1000 mono's. Well a few days ago I just got a pair of Genesis m60 tube amps. I was noticing a clicking noise coming through my speakers. I first noticed this when I was just warming up the amps with no source on. Then I also noticed the clicking when a source was on with music playing.

So it turns out that the clicking noise is my electric ignition of my gas furnace, is somehow playing through my speakers (Or maybe its just one of them, not exactly sure yet) This is a very strange and annoying. If anyone has any ideas please let me know!

Tim
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Showing 1 response by stonedeaf

First- did you ever try shorting the inputs to the amps to see if this made any difference?I might have missed this?
Second - a trick that I picked up from a broadcast engineer friend of mine is occasionally helpful in tracing down this kind of problem - simply plug in a long heavy duty extension cord still rolled up or "hanked" as it came in the package.This basically is a inductor - if the problem goes away - you know the power line is the source - this can also be used to isolate the source of the problem -you keep plugging it in between the wall and different appliances until the noise attenuates - bingo - that's the problem unit. In your case this isn't necessary since you've identified the noise source as the furnace - but if you try this on the amps - that may tell you that the noise is riding in on the power line (probable).