Electronic gizmos that start to make noise can be from different things but one of the things I think of when something deals with AC current is "chatter" from a small part that begins to degrade.
Inside many gizmos is a transformer to change voltages up or down and those are often made of metal plates stamped out of thin metal and a stack of those plates is made into a solid block by dipping them in something close to varnish!
So after some time, the varnish can begin to break down and the metal plates can begin to get loose and the AC current passing through and around them can make them begin to "chatter" or "sing" in time to the 60 cycle AC.
You may have heard older furnaces, etc. "humm" when you got close?
Not usually a sign they are going to fail but they never get any more quiet, either!
Wild guess but what I might suspect from a sound that comes and goes as described!! Check to see if more current passing or less changes the sound?
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Richard
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