03-20-2007, 11:25 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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The buzzing noise on the C-train
Does anyone know what the buzzing noise on the newer C-train is? Everytime the train slows down, the noise comes on.
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03-20-2007, 11:27 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I think it's the inverters. IIRC the new trains run on AC power, and the lines are DC power. (or maybe I've got it backwards.)
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03-20-2007, 11:27 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Calgary, AB
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Today for me it was some Chinese woman blathering into her cell phone. My headphones wouldn't go loud enough to drown her out.
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03-20-2007, 11:36 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kryzsky
Today for me it was some Chinese woman blathering into her cell phone. My headphones wouldn't go loud enough to drown her out.
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what if she was trying to talk louder because of your headphones???
did she buzz as well?
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03-20-2007, 11:58 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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I would have thought maybe regenerative breaking? Does that make that kind of noise?
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03-21-2007, 12:03 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Its something to do with the breaks. You hear that every time the trains slow down.
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03-21-2007, 12:05 AM
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Franchise Player
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I find it only one the newer ones
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03-21-2007, 12:13 AM
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Franchise Player
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Ya.. it is only in the new C-Trains that u hear it... its kinda a high pitched noise...
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03-21-2007, 12:24 AM
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One of the Nine
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 福岡市
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You should hear the sound the SkyTrain here in Van when it stops and starts at the stations. It goes from 0 to 60 or so kms/hr in under 7 seconds and reaches a top speed between stations around 90-100kms. Kind of neat too that there is no driver.
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03-21-2007, 12:28 AM
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kryzsky
Today for me it was some Chinese woman blathering into her cell phone. My headphones wouldn't go loud enough to drown her out.
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Be thankful she didn't have garlic for lunch or you would died from the smell of her bad breath. lol Last week I got stuck beside a guy who didn't shower that day. The smell was enougt to knock a buzzard off a shyte wagon!
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03-21-2007, 12:55 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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Maybe it is bees? I can't really think of anything else.
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03-21-2007, 01:09 AM
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One of the Nine
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Do the busses still make peoples' earphones buzz to the increase and decrease of velocity?
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03-21-2007, 01:14 AM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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I'm guessing it's either a braking action using the motors (effectively generators), or interference from the electrical system with the PA system.
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03-21-2007, 02:30 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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The new C-Trains are from Dusseldorf and in accordance with the European Union rules for green energy, they run on German Bumblebees.
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03-21-2007, 09:17 AM
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Franchise Player
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They are putting sand down on the tracks when braking - kind of an anti-lock system.
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03-21-2007, 10:02 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by STeeLy
Ya.. it is only in the new C-Trains that u hear it... its kinda a high pitched noise...
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The new C-Trains come with AC traction motors. Like Ken0042 said, it's likely that it is the inverters that you are hearing.
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03-21-2007, 10:24 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by goodyear
what if she was trying to talk louder because of your headphones???
did she buzz as well?
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loud phone talkers trump all.
cell phones should be banned on public transit, there is nothing more annoying.
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03-21-2007, 10:30 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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I guess this means people who feel the buzz should check out the Dell Days of Deals threads for the noise cancelling headphones!
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03-21-2007, 10:37 AM
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by goodyear
Does anyone know what the buzzing noise on the newer C-train is? Everytime the train slows down, the noise comes on.
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Ask Colonel Tigh on Battlestar Galactica next week . . . . he'll have the answer by then.
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