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Old 07-08-2021, 10:33 AM
old_coot88 old_coot88 is offline
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Zeno's right. Those 2 ground stakes on the far right end of the chroma board need to be re-flowed. They're Schroedinger's stakes and exist in one of two states: either cracked or gonna crack. When that happens the 6GU7 heaters go out, initiating a cascade. Plate voltage rises, and since the plates are DC-coupled to the CRT grids, CRT beam current rises, dragging down the HV till raster blooms and fades out, stressing the bejeebers out of the 3A3 and flyback.

Re-flowing these should be done as a matter of course on every CTC-15, '16, '17 and '25.
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