Bit of an odd question

Dial Hard

Mods, I wasn't sure where to post this so feel free to move to a more appropriate forum if there is one.

So, basically, I'm being driven absolutely demented by a really high-pitched "sound" in my house the past few weeks. I use the quotation marks because it's not really an audible sound, as such; neither of my housemates can hear it.

I have a Bose sound dock that makes the same "noise" when plugged it's in but not in use, but that literally stops the second it's plugged out and I haven't had it plugged in at all when I'm hearing this. It also only seems to happen in the evenings. Our management company recently changed all the streetlights in our development from arc sodiums to what look like LEDS (they're super bright, anyway). Is it possible I'm "hearing" these?

Ear plugs don't make any difference and I'm seriously starting to lose my reason because it's affecting my sleep. Any suggestions/advice?

Thanks a mill.

thecornflake

Dial Hard wrote: »

Mods, I wasn't sure where to post this so feel free to move to a more appropriate forum if there is one.

So, basically, I'm being driven absolutely demented by a really high-pitched "sound" in my house the past few weeks. I use the quotation marks because it's not really an audible sound, as such; neither of my housemates can hear it.

I have a Bose sound dock that makes the same "noise" when plugged it's in but not in use, but that literally stops the second it's plugged out and I haven't had it plugged in at all when I'm hearing this. It also only seems to happen in the evenings. Our management company recently changed all the streetlights in our development from arc sodiums to what look like LEDS (they're super bright, anyway). Is it possible I'm "hearing" these?

Ear plugs don't make any difference and I'm seriously starting to lose my reason because it's affecting my sleep. Any suggestions/advice?

Thanks a mill.

Do you have any insect/rodent repellent plugs in your house? I have heard stories of people moving into houses and only finding out years later that such a device was plugged into an attic socket or hidden from view.

LED devices shouldn't make any noise at all, however transformers for them could.

Dial Hard

thecornflake wrote:

Do you have any insect/rodent repellent plugs in your house? I have heard stories of people moving into houses and only finding out years later that such a device was plugged into an attic socket or hidden from view.

Nope, living here almost three years and this is only happening in the last few weeks.

Lying in bed right now and it's gone, which is really making me lean towards it being *something* to do with the lights (as you said, not necessarily the diodes themselves).

That, or the management company have sneakily stuck one of those "Mosquito" things to stop kids loitering up somewhere and not told anyone. Although at 34, I shouldn't be able to hear one of those.

mikhail

You could try turning off everything at the fuse board and seeing if that stops it. If it does, at least you've narrowed it down to something electrical in your house.