Valentine's gift (or is it a shameless trick?)

[Phil Nelson]

Yes, I removed the old wax and recoated the coil with black "sensor safe" RTV, and then fixed the broken wire from the coil to the HOT cap. No sparks, no corona. It makes a great picture. Listening with a tube, I can hear faint ticking or sizzling from the coil.

Making some quick measurements, I got -45V on pin 5 of the HOT and 165V on pin 4. Neither of those seems alarming. Disconnected the cathode lead at pin 8, but my DMM wouldn't give a current reading there, for some reason.

I've used corona dope before, and it's good stuff. I didn't have enough left in the little bottle for this whole coil, though.

Time to set this aside until the new flyback arrives, I think.

Phil Nelson