JC80
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- Feb 6, 2015
- 86
- Boat Info
- 1989 SeaRay 390 Express Cruiser
- Engines
- Caterpillar 3208 375HP
Hey folks. About a month or two ago we had a marien electronics professional come in and redo all our audio (fusion, new speakers, new sub, new amp). We also had him add 4 Lumitec Rail2 LED lights under some seats in the back of the cockpit.
If you're not familiar with the lumitecs, they're really cool - they are running to our "courtesy lights" switch on the helm and they change from red to dimmable white to blue every time you toggle the switch on then off then on again.
The weirdest thing is that they create a hum in our new speakers but ONLY when the white light is on. Also interesting is that if we remove two of the four lights (though it doesn't seem to matter which two), the hum will go away, even when on white light.
The guy has been to the boat like 4 times to try and fix this by using audio filters etc. (which seemed to only slightly decrease it). He called lumitec and they told him to try some capacitor of some sort. I'm only concerned about the final cost of this installation and so I'm doing my own research. Does anyone have any ideas? I know this is an oddball question but I figured some electrical wiz on this site may be able to tell me something. Thanks!
If you're not familiar with the lumitecs, they're really cool - they are running to our "courtesy lights" switch on the helm and they change from red to dimmable white to blue every time you toggle the switch on then off then on again.
The weirdest thing is that they create a hum in our new speakers but ONLY when the white light is on. Also interesting is that if we remove two of the four lights (though it doesn't seem to matter which two), the hum will go away, even when on white light.
The guy has been to the boat like 4 times to try and fix this by using audio filters etc. (which seemed to only slightly decrease it). He called lumitec and they told him to try some capacitor of some sort. I'm only concerned about the final cost of this installation and so I'm doing my own research. Does anyone have any ideas? I know this is an oddball question but I figured some electrical wiz on this site may be able to tell me something. Thanks!
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