This TV has me seriously stumped, there is NOTHING in this TV that looks like it could of shorted to ground.
The 26.0 Ohm Reading I'm getting on the 5U4G rectifier tube Socket rather than the 22,000 Ohm reading I should be getting is leading me to think that perhaps my 5v winding in my power transformer had failed in some way shape or form.
Everything else measures fine and there isnt' anything else in the TV that I can see that looks to be bad, all of the resistors test within tolerance (which is surprising) and leaky capacitors wouldn't cause excessive amounts of current draw to the point that the unit is drawing 3x the current its rated for.
It can't be the power supply caps because I had already replaced those with brand new ones and was careful to observe proper polarity and its still drawing over 4 amps of current and over 500 watts of power and the 5U4G tube is still arcing so like I said this TV has me stumped I cannot for the life of me figure out whats going on with this TV.
