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Old 12-30-2013, 12:14 PM
dieseljeep dieseljeep is offline
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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn View Post
Pulled the PC boards out and was poking around looking for suspect capacitors. Just for the heck of it I checked the big transistor mounted on the heatsink next to the flyback transformer. Out of circuit it measures 53 ohms in both directions across the base-emitter. That can't be right, can it?



Those things fool you because of the built damper diode. If it was truly shorted, it would read 0 ohms in both directions.
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