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April 5th, 2003, 11:43 AM
This might be a lenghty description, please bear with me. My equipment consists of a Yamaha HTR-5460 reciever, a TN1225 sub with the 150 watt amp, and some JBL Studio series bookshelves.
Basically when I try to hook up my computer (via 1/8" miniplug to RCA adapter) to my reciever, AND my subwoofer to my reciever, there are sparks and smoke and other bad things. Right now I have my computer hooked up to my reciever and it works fine. I can hook up my sub to my reciever without the computer and it works fine. Just when the two are connected. I thought it might be a grounding problem, so I connected a wire from the grounded prong of an electrical plug to the Phono ground of my reciever. This didn't help. If I have my sub connected to my reciever, and I hold the RCA jacks comming from the computer and touch the bottom chassis of the reciever I get shocked. The weirdest thing is I had this setup before and it worked perfectly fine. I'm in a different building now though, could this be the problem? The surge protector I have my reciever plugged into has the Grounded light on. Any ideas?
Basically when I try to hook up my computer (via 1/8" miniplug to RCA adapter) to my reciever, AND my subwoofer to my reciever, there are sparks and smoke and other bad things. Right now I have my computer hooked up to my reciever and it works fine. I can hook up my sub to my reciever without the computer and it works fine. Just when the two are connected. I thought it might be a grounding problem, so I connected a wire from the grounded prong of an electrical plug to the Phono ground of my reciever. This didn't help. If I have my sub connected to my reciever, and I hold the RCA jacks comming from the computer and touch the bottom chassis of the reciever I get shocked. The weirdest thing is I had this setup before and it worked perfectly fine. I'm in a different building now though, could this be the problem? The surge protector I have my reciever plugged into has the Grounded light on. Any ideas?