It may have taken 18 months, but the state Public Utilities Commission has finally pulled the plug on a humming backyard electric transformer that a Cerritos man says kept him awake at night. The ...

A Lehighton couple has vowed to drown out the humming of unwanted electrical transformers by singing their own tune. “We’re gonna be aggressive about it,” said William Sheckler after leaving a Borough ...

Electricity is supposed to be the “silent servant”. So why do transformers hum? • Transformer hum is caused by a phenomenon known as magnetostriction. To understand why, it is necessary to take a look ...

One explanation for the hum heard near transformers is that at low frequencies, like 60 Hz, the transformer core undergoes magnetetostriction. Magnetetostriction is the slight change in a ...