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Old 12-03-2020, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Yamamaya42 View Post
Well, if the dummies were running it with a bum CRT, who knows what kind of feedback it created, R141 is the path for the shunt regulator to try and clamp down the HV, if that let go, who knows what may have happened, especially if the HV rect let go, and flooded AC all over the place, it could have even got into the LV power supply, if they were really not watching things.
The 2.7 ohm resistor in the HV cup was a half watt and looked original, schematic and Sams picture shows it as 1 watt. It drifted to 4.2 ohms so the 3A3C was not bad as would have seemed. I replaced it with a 1 watt
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