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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn
What is your reasoning about C50 and C51 that makes you think they could make pins 5 and 6 go negative? Can capacitors reverse the polarity of DC voltages?  |
Those are the only components in the path of the area where I'm getting those funky readings besides R56 and R54 but when I asked about those resistors you said that they weren't going to cause those kinds of issues.
Also C3C and C3B are around there as well but those like I said they are hooked up like they're supposed to be.
The only other thing I can think of is C3C which is a 20MFD 25V electrolytic (which I replaced with a 25MFD 100V electrolytic) that the schematic shows is in parallel with R57 which is a 680 Ohm 1W resistor going to ground from pin 2 of the 5AQ5 tube.
The way I wired up that capacitor is that I wired up the positive side of the capacitor to the same terminal on pin 2 of the 5AQ5 tube socket as R57 was wired to and then the negative side of the cap I wired to the same "chassis ground" terminal that R57 was wired to rather than just tying the positive lead of the capacitor onto the side of the resistor facing pin 2 of the 5AQ5 tube socket and tying the negative side of the capacitor to the side of R57 that was facing the "chassis ground" terminal.