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Philco 54 Electrolytic Capacitors
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10-14-2014, 09:59 AM
Here is an update:

I finally got the new electrolytic capacitors installed correctly and  the radio appeared dead. No tube filaments or anything.  So I started testing the tubes just to be sure of the quality and see if maybe a filament had opened up. When I tested the rectifier tube (25Z5) I found out that one side had shorted. When I tested the 25Z5 only one filament side would light and it would be super bright!

I managed to find another 25Z5 tube laying around and tested it. It had no shorts, but measured bad.  I went ahead and substituted it into the radio and the filaments light once again! Yay!

With the new rectifier tube I measured plate voltage on the 43 tube with no issues except I had 0 plate voltage. Icon_crazy  

Tonight I am hoping to get some more testing done and figure out why I have 0 plate volts.

Thank you guys for reading my crazy posts!  8)
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