In all the years of chasing alternator whine in aircraft audio systems,
it sounded to me that it is at a couple of Khz.
Jon,
If the engine is turning 2600 RPM, that is 43 revs per sec. The pulleys
on the alternator have a ratio of about 4:1, so that would make the
alternator spin at about 173 revs per sec, or 173Hz. That would make
the alternator whine (assuming no bad diodes) of 1038Hz.
I should alter the sinsoidal current sources to have a freq of 173Hz,
instead of the 500Hz I used.
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