Zenith 25MC33 HV Trouble

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I hope not too, but it is not impossible...I put a VERY gassy (Zenith badged)CRT into one of these Zenith chassis and got to watch internal neck arcing and HV rect arcing both accompinied with glow, and spectacular amount of acoustic protest from the horizontal circuits...Set worked fine before and after with a different CRT (I did not run it long enough to cause damage).

Ah! The famous Zenith 21FJ. I took it out of a 24NC37 because it really looked sick. Then it went to Zenithfan1, intended to be a dud, then Miniman82 got it, then you lucked up on it.