OK the regulator is probably OK but the cap can still be bad allowing
garbage to get on the 135V line.
Turning brite down with a bad regulator will cause the 135 to go up
without the load of the CRT. Enuf & it will trigger shut-down.
Things that go wrong are self induced. Wrong value, backwards,
solder splashes etc. It happens to EVERYBODY sooner or later.
Also most small 'lytics have a zero failure rate on newer sets.
There are a few that are common to ALL sets to watch out for like
the ones I mentioned & the ones in the Vert output. Other than
that few & far between.......
73 Zeno
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Originally Posted by StarquestMan
ok i just checked the voltage with out replacing any caps just out of curiosity. the voltage with the brightness control all the way down was 136.5 and all the way up was 136.1. i do not have a variac or an isolation transformer for that matter (i learned the hard way what a "hot chassis" on my other Hitachi set, a CT-19A3, after nuking the bridge rectifier and nearly blowing up my old heathkit scope ). just out of curiosity what are some of the things that can go wrong when recapping a solid state set?
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