RCA (model 6-EY-3A) 45 player

[Electronic M]

If the replacement is physically the same size or bigger than the original then I'd be looking for a short or near sort on that B+ line.

[bigaudioal]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

If the replacement is physically the same size or bigger than the original then I'd be looking for a short or near sort on that B+ line.

I just did this testing. I disconnected red wire going to 80 lytic and looked for shorts to chassis ground. No shorts. I also tested to see if B- was shorted too. No shorts there either. Cannot find any shorts at all. No shorts in the audio output transformer either.

One thing I noticed in the schematics, on the selenium, the anode appears to be on the left and cathode on the right. I thought anode is usually associated with the + symbol and cathode with the - symbol. Both the RCA schematics and SAMS seems to have anode as - and cathode as +. Bit confusing.

[bigaudioal]

I got it now!!!! Thanks for the advice everyone. Voltages are within a few volts on all measurements. Turns out there were two issues. Diode installed backwards and then original 47 ohm resistor was open. Once I got that figured out and bumped the resistor up to a 100 ohm/5 watter (to be safe), all is running great and within specs.

YouTube video for your enjoyment. Thx!

https://youtu.be/fScvt2-tFpg

[Bill Cahill]

Actually, the arrow is the anode, and, the straight line is the cathode on the silicons, at least.. You did very well, and, sounds as if you did a top notch job.