Ekco TCG 337

[Heatercathodeshort]

The fuse blowing after a few minutes is without doubt the wax covered mains filter capacitor situated behind the mains selector panel. This is all routine stuff to a television service guy. As stated the receiver will require a recap and it will probably work very well but you still have the problems of providing a 405 line signal. An Aurora standards converter costs around £180-200 and for a single receiver and I guess would be a bit over the top. John.

[simonsradio]

Hi

Originally Posted by JDHewitt

I noticed the back has information about where to put the leads red, black yellow and blue so as to obtain the correct mains voltage just above the mains pins. It looks as though it was in the wrong places so I changed it round.

I just about remember a service call on our TC267 when I was a kid - the technician diagnosed a blown dropper section and moved the voltage selection wires around to use a non standard set up to bypass the problem. Its possible you may have a similar "tactical repair" here and if so you could have re-introduced an old fault?

[Nickthedentist]

Originally Posted by mark pirate

Unless it has received some electrical restoration recently, I would advise you not to just plug it in, as you may cause some damage to it.

I presume you missed Mark's advice then?

What do you plan to do with it next?

Good luck,

Nick.