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Diabolical Artificer · 22nd Jan 2018, 7:50 am

Welcome to the forum Darren, it's always a good ide to post a schematic if you have one, to help with the yellow wires for instance.

Definitely start it up on a lamp limiter and a variac if you have one whilst reading the HT (high voltage) on the big can/cap. If you have two meters use one as an ammeter; on the mains tfmr, there is a HT fuse, it can be taken out to measure the current on first start up. Re the big can/cap, in all likely hood, it will be fine for now, at least till you get everything else sorted. you can always change it later. There are a lot of smaller German made electrolytics in these, these can hopefully be checked with voltage readings.

Look after those ECL86's, they are rare, hard to get for reasonable money valves, worth more than what you paid for the two grams.

Andy.

22nd Jan 2018, 7:50 am	#4
Diabolical Artificer Dekatron Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sleaford, Lincs. UK. Posts: 7,669	Re: Blaupunkt Arkansas 43942 Restoration Welcome to the forum Darren, it's always a good ide to post a schematic if you have one, to help with the yellow wires for instance. Definitely start it up on a lamp limiter and a variac if you have one whilst reading the HT (high voltage) on the big can/cap. If you have two meters use one as an ammeter; on the mains tfmr, there is a HT fuse, it can be taken out to measure the current on first start up. Re the big can/cap, in all likely hood, it will be fine for now, at least till you get everything else sorted. you can always change it later. There are a lot of smaller German made electrolytics in these, these can hopefully be checked with voltage readings. Look after those ECL86's, they are rare, hard to get for reasonable money valves, worth more than what you paid for the two grams. Andy. __________________ Curiosity hasn't killed this cat...so far.