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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
Doug Harland recently made a youtube video of him working on one of these sets that was tripping the circuit breaker and the cause was one of the safety capacitors that had shorted.
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I just actually watched Doug's video; so, there are only three of those caps in the 25DC56? In that case I've got a couple of spares, so I can't complain. Also, does an open cap cause the HV to spike, or was at least one of the other two shorted as well?
Nice '60 Chev at the top of his YouTube page. Not a total restyling, but enough of a change to do away with the '59s fugliness. A 4-door too, there's a refreshing change from the usual classic car.
BTW, how's this for the cause of a tripping breaker? Saw it on ARF a few weeks back.
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A customer brought in a table model Magnavox once and it was tripping the breaker so I decided to check the diodes in the power supply, I removed the two large screws holding the chassis down and tried to lift and slide the chassis out...it was stuck, I pulled as hard as I could and yanked up, wouldn't budge, got a large screwdriver and started prying up on one corner of the chassis all of a sudden it popped up and as I tipped it up I saw why it was stuck, customer had added legs to make it a consolette, one of the mounts had about a 2 inch wood screw that went all the way through the winding of the vertical output xfmr. Now I knew why the breaker was tripping.
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