06-08-2012, 05:30 PM
(06-08-2012, 05:11 PM)Steve_P Wrote: Good, you've come over to the dark side, where engineers regularly make fun of each other and leave charged capacitors lying about...
Seriously though, snip the capacitor across the mains (Mark will tell you why) and as you are a beginner I'll allow you to wind it up gently on a variac.
Good luck...
Cheers,
Steve P.
Use a Variac, you do surprise me Steve, honestly at the moment my variac is not wired up, but might attempt to do this by next week, the tv is in the loft at the moment, so I will fetch it down tomorrow, and give it a few days to aclimatise, just to give the LOPT time to dry out.
I was at one point thinking of snipping the mains filter cap, and using a lamp limiter I have two bulbs in mine which are switchable between 100 or 200W but not sure if this is high enough for a tv, or even snip the cap and just plug it in
keeping an eye out for distress or smoke.Will first light be possibly a bit tricky due to the state of the ion trap, but saying that, it does look as it has never been moved, so is probably in the correct position.
