01-26-2013, 07:54 PM
This sounds like what I've been going through on a 42-1008. The highest value resistor from the HV secondary center tap to ground smokes and opens.
Check the voltages on your rectifier plates to to ground. Please, be VERY careful-- this thing can bite you hard. They should both be roughly the same (~350VAC). If one is really high and the other one is around zero, you have a transformer winding shorted to ground on the HV secondary. That will smoke that resistor in a jiffy. If this is the case, one of the yellow wires coming out of the transformer probably has some bad insulation and is touching the transformer shell somewhere.
Check the voltages on your rectifier plates to to ground. Please, be VERY careful-- this thing can bite you hard. They should both be roughly the same (~350VAC). If one is really high and the other one is around zero, you have a transformer winding shorted to ground on the HV secondary. That will smoke that resistor in a jiffy. If this is the case, one of the yellow wires coming out of the transformer probably has some bad insulation and is touching the transformer shell somewhere.
It's not how bad you mess up, it's how well you can recover.
