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A bad electrolytic cap? ME?
Now for some stupid cap questions.
First, the SAMS lists about 2 pages worth of "capacitors", but only a handful of electrolytic ones. I'm hoping it's only this handful I have to track down.
Three of them are in big metal cans right on the chassis. I'm guessing they have nothing to do with my vertical problems. There's one on the convergence board, so I guess that one's out of the running too.
Now we get to what I think are the likely suspects. There's one on the video-sound board, but I can't find it on the (excuse the terminology) Big Roadmap of the set. The last one is a big fat cardboard almost-toilet-paper-roll-sized hummer on the chroma board right next to the vert mult/vert output tube.
Am I getting warmer?
Suppose I just go ahead and replace this. Capacitors can't be that expensive, can they? Or particularly hard to get?
More stupid cap questions:
I know you're supposed to discharge 'em before working on them, but how does one accomplish this?
What's the best way to remove one? Desolder from the top, or from the bottom? Resolder in the same place (top or underneath, I mean) ? I really suck at soldering so I'm hoping to keep it to a minimum. Apparently, I'm what's known as a "blobber".
P.S. What's an ESR meter?
Why do I feel like the Three Stooges theme should be playing???
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