electric buzzing

[John Dirks Jr]

What causes the buzzing sound in the big electrical boxes? I mean the big power company boxes.

[gtblum]

Electricity.

[John Dirks Jr]

  gtblum said:

Electricity.

I know that much thanks. Can you explain why it can be heard?

[gtblum]

No. Just wanted to make you laugh.

[Inspectorjoe]

magnetostriction

[SWagar]

I think it's because there are so many electrons in the same area they feel confined and are pissed off at each other. That is just mad electron sound, sorta like bees.

[John Dirks Jr]

  Inspectorjoe said:

magnetostriction

Google of that term is shedding the info.

http://www.federalpacific.com/universit ... pter2.html

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[gtblum]

By now, you've probably seen this but, just in case.

http://www.plitron.com/pdf/aes.pdf

[Chad Fabry]

Excellent question, John.

I learned a lot today.

[Inspectorjoe]

  John Dirks Jr said:

  Inspectorjoe said:

magnetostriction

Google of that term is shedding the info.

http://www.federalpacific.com/universit ... pter2.html

"If the extensions and contractions described above are taking place erratically all over a sheet, and each sheet is behaving erratically with respect to its neighbor, then you can get a picture of a moving, writhing construction when it is excited."

Ooh, reading that makes me feel all tingly. [:-bigeyes

[Bob White]

Thanks for the link to the piltron document.

Reading it brought me back to the days when I had a real job....

... after reading the source material provided, the answer is, as stated before --- electricity.

[JDSchlueter]

  John Dirks Jr said:

What causes the buzzing sound in the big electrical boxes? I mean the big power company boxes.

I assume you are talking about a padmount transformer?

[Bill Kibbel]

You guys are full of it. I pried one open today and found the noise is caused by a bunch of these: