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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn
Chris,
I have an idea that might be less painful than the way you're trying to go about this. Identify the circuit location on each of the old caps as you remove them. After you have the TV working with new caps, you can experiment with putting the old ones back, one at a time. Then you can evaluate how they influence the operation. It will be easier to do once you have a working base line. You could even keep a spare chassis on the bench just for experimentation. The more you measure voltages and look at waveforms on your scope the easier it will become to wrap you head around how the circuits interact with leaky or out of tolerance components.
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Thank you for that suggestion! I actually finished the recap in the vertical and horizontal sections tonight but it was late, I got tired and I didn’t want to risk powering the tv up in that state. I did test some of the caps as I replaced them and one in particular had a very high ESR…somewhere around 75 ohms. In bed and I don’t have the schematic in front of me but it was a 102 paper cap rated at 1000V…C155 🤔 maybe. The rest of the wax caps tested fine accurate with
low ESR. The bumblebee caps were a different story and were all bad. Anyway we’ll see tomorrow if it works, is the same or smokes!