It may have taken 18 months, but the state Public Utilities Commission has finally pulled the plug on a humming backyard electric transformer that a Cerritos man says kept him awake at night. The ...

One explanation for the hum heard near transformers is that at low frequencies, like 60 Hz, the transformer core undergoes magnetetostriction. Magnetetostriction is the slight change in a ...

Electricity is supposed to be the “silent servant”. So why do transformers hum? • Transformer hum is caused by a phenomenon known as magnetostriction. To understand why, it is necessary to take a look ...

I just got the latest Hifi News magazine and, as usual, the same ridiculously expensive mains cables etc are being pimped. I usually just skim over that crap, after admiring how pretty it is, but this ...