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Originally Posted by vortalexfan
So does anyone have any idea what's going on with my Zenith Bugeye TV?
Like I said the TV is just doing a more or less "full screen" version of what it was doing when I first got it before I recapped it, also the "magic smoke" smell I was smelling but not seeing where it was coming from.
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It gets confusing when you cover two different TVs in the same thread.
I can't keep them straight.
That TV seems to have some HV because there is light on the screen. Obviously the sweeps are not working right. They are so wrong that it is difficult to say what is wrong. I would get the raster fixed up first. In general comparing voltages with what it shows in the service data is a good place to start. If what is on the TV CRT doesn't help much to diagnose a problem then a scope looking at the waveforms will reveal more.
Every time you install something wrong or burn something up you dig yourself in deeper trouble.
I think you would profit by leaning more how the TV circuits work.
Did you ever read at "Television Simplified" by Kiver?
Below number 128 on this page.
https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSH..._Gernsback.htm
If you learned not "how to" but "how it works" or "why it works", you will be able to figure out some things yourself without always asking "What should I do now?".
You are very lucky to be around in a time when such knowledge can be downloaded easily and for free.