Thread: My new CTC-15
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Old 11-07-2017, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Vaultovinyl View Post
...The bad: I powered it up slowly on a variac. I've got audio and raster but there's high voltage dancing all around the outside of the picture tube to the chassis surrounding the tube. I haven't left it powered up past the point that the arcing starts. The screen just begins to light up before I kill the power as the arcing starts. I'm guessing I've got ground issues. ...
Probably just lost the dag ground (the black conductive coating on the outside of the CRT). Should be easy to find.
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