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Old Jul 26, 2019 | 10:11 AM
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I am taking my fairing back off to fix the hum. After all the trouble I had getting it together, I'm not going to be happy with the ground noise. That being said, I am seeking advise on how to thin out wires, or routing options to clean the look up. I've tried to keep power wires to the minimum length and put ferruls on all but the 4 gauge power and ground wires. What else can I do/remove?
 
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Old Jul 26, 2019 | 10:24 AM
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I am taking my fairing back off to fix the hum. After all the trouble I had getting it together, I'm not going to be happy with the ground noise. That being said, I am seeking advise on how to thin out wires, or routing options to clean the look up. I've tried to keep power wires to the minimum length and put ferruls on all but the 4 gauge power and ground wires. What else can I do/remove?
Before getting in there and starting to hack away at ur wires, what have u done with your gains and DSP settings to troubleshoot the problem?

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I played around with the levels on the dsr and even turned down to -20, I still had the hum. The Stinger gains are down around 930 or so. The nvx amps are 11-12 ish. I still notice that this really started when I put a 60 amp fuse inline with the stinger. I bought some higher quality rca cables to try to allow for a more stable connection.
 
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Wondering if this is only heard at Lowe volume or all the time? I have a little floor noise at lower
volume level but doesn’t bother me as I don’t listen to it at that setting.
 
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Wondering if this is only heard at Lowe volume or all the time? I have a little floor noise at lower
volume level but doesn’t bother me as I don’t listen to it at that setting.
It is at low volume, but it started to crackle in my lower right fairing speaker, oddly, when I clutch/break. I'm leaning towards a bad rca connection, but I'm going to pull and ferrul the speaker wire to make sure it's not a short somewhere. At speed, no issues at all.
 
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Reseat or tighten all your power and ground connections, especially the fuse mounts.
 
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The -20 on ur DSP is also a concern.

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It was only there to rule out the problem.
 
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It was only there to rule out the problem.
U went the wrong way to rule out the problem. Gains should be set with the DSP Master gain closer to zero. -20 means the DSP is trying to squash/hide 20 blips of gain programmed at the amp thus it turns into floor noise.

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I had it at 0 when the problem started. Its had plenty of time at zero.
 
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