08-13-2018, 09:38 PM
That's the line capacitors, if it shorts out it won't do anything other then blow a fuse, or if leaky heat up and melt tar, it should not harm the transformer primary and definitely not harm the H.V secondary. On this set it's ahead of the power switch, so as long as the set is plugged in it has power across the caps all the time, actually between each side of the power line and the chassis, so it can go without the set even being on.
Regards
Arran
Regards
Arran