Strange low frequency noise

ondafly · 10-10-2024 08:27PM

Coil whine ? Nothing worse if you are susceptible to hearing it.

RockOrBog · 10-10-2024 08:31PM

Sometimes electrical transformers on pole make humming noises, especially if the day is damp

John arse · 10-10-2024 08:32PM

Any of the crash test dummies living near you???

CliffHangeroner · 10-10-2024 08:35PM

Russians, obviously..

4Ad · 13-10-2024 04:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122702945#Comment_122702945

Yes

MarieTeresa · 13-10-2024 08:39PM

I can hear the low frequency noise in Clontarf

Ubbquittious · 13-10-2024 11:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122715695#Comment_122715695

Must be Joe Duffy humming away to himself

odyssey06 · 14-10-2024 06:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122715695#Comment_122715695

Could be noises coming from Port operations or wind blowing through some drainage pipes or culverts.

miamee · 14-10-2024 12:33PM

I had a low humming noise driving me mad in the house a few weeks ago. I narrowed it down to the hallway, I even went outside to see if I could hear it out there, maybe a neighbour was using a machine I could hear but I couldn't hear it outside. It turned out to be the ring box for the door bell up on the wall (don't actually know what it's called), OH had it down when replacing the front door bell and it has been humming since he put it back up. I can only hear it when the house is very quiet or when I am in the hall.

This one is less likely but I woke up to an awful humming electrical noise one night, I was up and down the stairs trying to pinpoint what it was. Eventually I realised that it was one of the speakers connected to my laptop in my office (spare room), for some reason it had started to hum loudly. That one was an easier fix than the door bell 😂

silliussoddius · 14-10-2024 06:33PM

Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to hum to you again

L Grey · 14-10-2024 09:27PM

Would it be mmm-mmmmm or would it be mmmm-mm?

The first one there, now thats the sound of a fridge humming and the second one - now thats the sound of a man humming.

appledrop · 14-10-2024 09:38PM

Could really be anything as others said so you kinda need to go to other places /houses and sit as quiet as possible to make sure it definitely isn't Tinnitus or anything like that. If definitely not I'd start trying to rule things out.

I had a hum driving me mad a few years ago and couldn't figure it, said it to my husband he couldn't hear anything. Could hear it in bedroom and all but thankfully stopped when i was going to sleep. I eventually coped on after about two weeks that my husband had changed all the light bulbs in lamps to more energy efficient ones that gave off a hum and drove me mad🫠.

He couldn't hear a thing with them, needless to say they all got dumped in the bin!