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Going through the chassis replacing capacitors and the odd resistor. The previous owner replaced a number of capacitors it appears years,ago with orange drop Spragues but left long leads on the replacements. Tidyi g up as I go along.
I saw a little wire jumper under the chassis I initially thought was jumping an old fuse. Found it bridged the power switch. I pull out the switch and found it quite charred. It was a Centralab switch and potentiometer so I proceeded to look though my box of old parts. Found many exact physical replacements. However I found that all the other switches fitting the control were only 3 amps and the burnt out switch was rated 5 amps. Think about it: this set dissipates 475 watts which means it must drawabout 4 amps! To avoid any physical modification to the control, with the 3 amp swich unit now married to the old CT100 control, there is space underneath to fit a 15 amp @ 115v Potter Brumfield relay.
I amazes me the power this beast consumes!
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