CTC-4 Director 21

[Electronic M]

Personally I'd pull the H output tube, till the recap is done and the osc. has been dialed in with a scope. Don't want to risk your flyback. On my 4 I did it that way, and when I was ready to install the tube I had it set up to dip the cathode current using the linearity/efficiency slug as soon as I had HV....I pretty much confirmed I had decent sweep and HV then immediately dipped the current. If something is wrong and the fly is being fed too much current, you don't want to run it that way long....We refer to flys for early sets like this as unobtainium for a reason!

[SwizzyMan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Personally I'd pull the H output tube, till the recap is done and the osc. has been dialed in with a scope. Don't want to risk your flyback. On my 4 I did it that way, and when I was ready to install the tube I had it set up to dip the cathode current using the linearity/efficiency slug as soon as I had HV....I pretty much confirmed I had decent sweep and HV then immediately dipped the current. If something is wrong and the fly is being fed too much current, you don't want to run it that way long....We refer to flys for early sets like this as unobtainium for a reason!

Amen to that! Only had it running 2 minutes. Still a bad idea on my part. I already heard john h's horror story with the flyback in his 4.

[SwizzyMan]

Replaced the seleniums with 1n4007s. Did a 30 second power up. Once the relay to turn on the HV switched on I blew the 4.5 A fuse. I double checked the polarity of the diodes and they are correct. Im thinking I may need to add a dropping resistor.