Scored a Portacolor WHE5255WD

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Originally Posted by andy

There is a tubular ceramic cap near the flyback. Be sure to change that since it will fail shortly. It's tucked away under the LV power supply near where the HV wire comes out of the HV cage. It will overheat and blow its top, or cause the HOT to red plate.

Actually, there are up to three Elmenco white ceramic caps in these Porta Color sets that will spew aluminum foil all over if they fail. The largest is right behind the leftmost potentiomer pair (height and AGC). It is a .1/1000V cap, C268. The other is standing on end, and in my set, was a .047/400V, C409. Both are are in close proximity to each other.

My notes also show I replaced a third one, C555, a .22uf/ 400V in the degaussing circuit, and in mine, also a white elmenco ceramic. It wasn't on the board - just trace the wires off the degaussing switch to the cap. If you have auto-degaussing, it won't be in your set.

I too have an early portacolor, A WM213HWD-3.

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