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Old 01-29-2016, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by rca2000 View Post
If I am not mistaken...the 5 has an un-pluggable anode lead...I THINK it plugs into the HV rect socket. MAYBE..that has become loose...and arcs every once in a while. Such would explain BOTH the flashes and the NO hv problem !!
Already checked that and it's not loose, The set was on for around 2 mins before the flash so the HV should have came up before then also it was only drawing around 200 watts from what the kill a watt meter says, when it was working with hv before a few days ago it was useing close to 300w.
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