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Re: [RFI] RFI from PC speakers

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Subject: Re: [RFI] RFI from PC speakers
From: "Andy" <ingraham.ma.ultranet@rcn.com>
Reply-to: Andy <ingraham.ma.ultranet@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:29:00 -0400
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Taking a wild stab here ...

>  A
> quick test of a clamp-on ferrite on the USB cable, then wrapping 10 or
> so turns of the cable around a bigger toroid did not make a dent in
> it.

Clamp-on ferrites affect common-mode noise only.  If there is a switching
regulator that draws power off the USB lines while adding crap to it
(between power and gnd), it won't be affected by the filter because it isn't
common-mode.

My guess though is that the speaker leads might be the antenna.

Andy

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