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Hi All,

Happy New Year!

Now the problem.

I own M400 #1001 (got from Ken Merbler.) It has worked great for me.
Unfortunately, recently I crushed the black power cord that was spliced to
the white (British) power cord coming from the tron. Thinking, "no
problem," I went to Home Depot and bought a new power outlet male end (3
prong, Leviton, yellow, a good one.) From the white power cord from the
tron, I hooked up the brown wire inside to gound, and the blue and
yellow/green wires to hot and neutral (or vice versa, I wouldn't know). With
this connection, I am getting severe AC hum. I always got a little hum from
the previous set-up, but now it is unbearable. Any suggestions for how to
wire (splice?) the British, white power cord to work with American power
supply so that I get no hum? I am afraid to wire it up in a different way
to try before asking the group, cause I don't want to fry my tron.

Again. The wires coming from the tron inside the white casing are brown,
blue, yellow/green. If anyone knows how to put a plug end on to minimise
and/or eliminate the AC hum, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much for any answers, and sorry in advance for such a potentially
rudimentary question.

Roc
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