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Old 04-30-2009, 11:14 AM
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Pull the tubes and recheck - if the dim-bulb (40W or greater) glows brightly, the transformer is shorted or AC is connected incorrectly. You could have crossed supply and return wires on the line-to-line cap block. There COULD be short in the block, but new caps are seldom bad... by the way, 'Y' capacitors - safety-rated for lin-connection - are the ones to use in that location. Regardless of the original value, I use .01 or .015 uF capacitors here to limit the amount of "leakage current" to well under 1 mA.

Also, cap item 36 shouldn't be increased - it will cause loss of high frequencies (there's already a 'Low" position on the tone switch - do you want "Low" and "Lower"?). Use .005, not .05.
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