My Brand New CTC-7!

[SwizzyMan]

Basically all the brown drops? Some of them are just buried in there. By the way a big thanks to you Phil for helping me out.

[Phil Nelson]

I believe I replaced all of them. The failure rate of those on the boards was so high that I couldn't justify keeping that type of cap anywhere in the TV.

I recommend trying out the TV frequently as you recap, rather than replacing all of 'em at once. If you make a wiring mistake or install the wrong value cap, which is easy to do, the problem will be immediately obvious and you won't have to go nuts trying to find the error amongst two dozen replacements.

Regards,

Phil Nelson

[old_coot88]

At noob-level experience, it'd probably be advisable to power-up after each part is replaced (IMHO).

[SwizzyMan]

Well going to need more caps I guess.

[SwizzyMan]

Diddle sticks got here today. The smell terrible but everything is here. I will start to recap the chroma circuit later tonight.

[SwizzyMan]

OK just finished recapping the entire chassis with the exception of two caps.

[SwizzyMan]

OK horizontal lock is once again horrendously bad goes off sync in less than 30 seconds does this on the bt modulator the lcg-400 and the converter box. Also no color still but a slight rolling rainbow that isnt rolling at all.I did not replace one electrolytic cap located in the chroma since I don't have that value could that be screwing things up? Tried adjusting the 3.58mhz oscillator coil that yielded nothing. I am pretty frustrated as to why the horizontal hold is so bad and why I still have no color. ugh