[timmy]

Well bottom line here is I’m not convinced that there is actually a problem with the IF I believe there is stray voltage from somewhere and it’s corrupting the IF as well as overloading the focus circuit at the same time taxing the power supply. I don’t know where to look at this point. Diodes didn’t help anything. Like I said the video would flicker in and out and the hv would jump 4 kv and back down in an instant. Even though I got video at v2 it was still very distorted whatever this stray voltage is if it is maybe it’s affecting v1 and still carries on to v2 don’t know. When this set powers up there should be enough voltage to run everything even though the thermistor is warming up the voltage is just not there in the beginning and not always does the voltages come up to full after a few minutes it seems intermittent it’s odd never seen anything like this. I wish if there’s something shorting it would burn up that’s a way to find it.