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Originally Posted by Tom Bavis
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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I did use .01uF 'Y' caps in the block. I will surely double check again tonight to make sure I didn't wire them incorrectly in there before opening up the transformer to look for trouble.
The .006 cap for part 36 has been on order. The other cap was already snipped before I realized I didn't have a proper replacement so the .05 went in for now. I'll be sure to size that cap properly when the one on order arrives.