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Originally Posted by Electronic M
If the safety caps on these fail HV can climb over 100KV and heat the CRT till it cracks. Repair techs of the 70s modular era will tell you that it wasn't uncommon for it to saw off the neck and the yoke to drop off when that happened and the owner wasn't in the room to stop it quick enough...
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I saw one like that. Most of those 4 lead caps shorted and killed the HV. The one that took the tube out also took the yoke and the vertical module. Zenith paid for the work even out of warranty.
Even though Zenith recalled the TVs, a lot of them back then weren't registered and the owners never got the notice. The vast majority of them never failed at all, but we'd still change them when they did show up.
John