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Old 12-17-2015, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by old_coot88 View Post
At this point, with the chassis still in fault mode, I would put an ohmmeter on the main B+ rail, to ground. A good place to find the B+ rail is the width coil or the top of filter caps C3A/C2B. (with the set off, of course.) Connect the positive lead to the B+ rail, negative lead to ground. What reading does it settle into after the initial charge-up spike?
Does it stop hard at a few K ohms, or drift up into the fractional-megohm range?
Voltage test didn't change with all 4 tubes removed, so I went on to this. The meter stopped at almost exactly 6.8 K Ohms.
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