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Opened up this Philco, and what the.....??
Okay, I've seen my share of bad repairs and unusual repairs, but this one takes the cake.
Opened up the bottom of this early 30s Philco console radio I'm redoing for a friend. For filtering, it's got a pair of 8 uF caps as you'd expect, but underneath the chassis plate I find this, once the ancient cloth black tape is unraveled.
A pair of 10 uF 450V caps with pilot lights wired into them on the + side. I'm assuming this is for some kind of isolation, but why???
The only thing that I can think of is a possible short in the power transformer? I have no idea. Anyone ever seen something like this?
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