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Data East speaker noise - ideas for a cure

By roc-noc

11 years ago


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#568 3 years ago
Quoted from PinballGiant:

Just wanted to add my two cents on fixing the speaker hum. My strategy was based off of wpmcnamara's previous posts. Got rid of the majority of the hum for about $30. Here is a video explaining what I did and the before and after. In short, I just added a 12V buck boost converter on the +12V to the sound board and had great results. Cleaner and cheaper than an entirely separate power supply and plug and play after you build it. Here are some pics too.

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gave this a go on my LW3 but only lowered the hum by about 20% I did notice my machine appears to have the rottendog board which people says this hum far worse so might be why I did not have much luck. Also tried the floating audio board which did nothing as well.

I have ordered parts for the psu fix now as this will give the audio board 100% clean voltage not just the +12v line so hopefully have better results

#569 3 years ago

If any one wants this give me a shout will post out if you can cover the £5 shipping

It does work just not very well in my situation (due to new power board I suspect)

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#572 3 years ago
Quoted from PinballGiant:

I’m sorry it didn’t work for you. Definitely not my intention to share something that doesn’t work. It’s weird because I have a rottendog board too. I still have some hum but this got it down to a very tolerable level. Will be interested to see if the separate power supply totally fixes it or if there’s something on the sound board contributing too.

No worries at all buddy every machine is different the floating did absolutely nothing for me either (and did fix others) I must just have a very fussy machine

I will report back with results of the PSU fix

#573 3 years ago
Quoted from Phantasize:

Which country are you from? I could be interested. I am from Denmark myself.

UK, pm me your address and I’ll pop it in the post

#574 3 years ago

Stuck one of these in https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/MEAN-WELL/RPT-60B?qs=V9a8iPeg90y32GHaWpmkvA%3D%3D and the hum has dropped about 90% far far better I think in my situation I just needed total isolation of the power supply to get rid of all the Nasty interference.

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#584 3 years ago
Quoted from Asanteiro:

Hello friend ... many say that changing the board lowers the noise but does not cancel it completely .
Others say that with some pinball pro kits it was solved.
Others put a dedicated sound source...
But you have to have a solution to make it original.
Mine (hook) makes a lot of noise to interference.
After an hour the noise is very low but it is there ... I am still waiting for a real and original solution.
Hug Alex!

Using separate RPT-60B appears to be best solution here, plastic washers did not work for me neither did the buck converter. But the RPT-60B fixed it

#587 3 years ago
Quoted from Asanteiro:

Good friend
I will try what you mention.
1 . Can you publish photos ?
2. How do you connect ?
3. When connecting you must program voltage to 12v ? As we did in the other module ?
4. If you publish photos I will guide your project
You say that under the noise, but I don't get it out. I read this from a comment
That's right.
One thing is the noise of the speakers.
Another is the DMD screen noise (this noise doesn't bother me)
If you help me, I will do it.
We can do it!
Alex !

Give me a few days I’ll take photos of my install

#591 3 years ago
Quoted from Asanteiro:

Excellent. Thank you
This is how I see how everything is connected.
I saw that you tried the other module and it didn't work.
The same thing happened to me.
If you look here in the forum I uploaded photos.
What I most want to see is how the cables are connected to the new module and the sound board.
This new module has to be encoded for 12v ? Or is it automatic?
Is it connected like the other module?
I am not a very expert but with pictures I encourage myself to try it.
I'm waiting for your pictures .
Thank you, my friend.[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]

Don’t plug this into your audio board without setting the 12v output as can range from like 5 to 18 depending on the pot. Plug into game power first and using meter adjust until you get 12v before you plug audio board in

I think reason it did not work for me is only the 12v is being sort of isolated, the other 3 lines just pass straight through so could carrying the interference.

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#593 3 years ago

Sorry for delay, here is photo of my install which works great

Basically unplug the old audio power connector then give the new psu AC in then power your audio board using the psu out (gnd,5v,12v,-12v)

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