Rebuilding a formerly dead g07 chassis. Replaced the fly and hot (both were bad). It's definitely been recapped at some time so I haven't done that.
When I fired it up, I got rapid clicking which went away when I turned down the screen control, but then after the monitor was on for a couple of minutes I got a loud pop which was apparently the anode discharging to what I assume was the metal shield that some g07's have around the tube. Shut off the monitor and just getting my discharge tool up against the rubber anode cup and got another big pop (bigger than I'd normally expect for sure). Granted, I didn't have the rubber cup on super tight like normal, but it did have a seal all the way around.
So I checked grounds, and I get less than an ohm between the monitor frame, the aqua dag, the neck board ground, and the chassis ground. I frankly don't understand the HV circuit (flows from anode wire into tube and then where?) but something is certainly off.
Prior to putting this chassis in I had another partially working chassis in there (vertical collapse) and I had no problem with the HV circuit on that one.
Someone help me out here please. It's gotta be something simple. Normally monitors don't scare me a bit but all the clicking and popping definitely got my heart pumping. You can bet I'm not coming within a half foot of that anode when the monitor is on!
When I fired it up, I got rapid clicking which went away when I turned down the screen control, but then after the monitor was on for a couple of minutes I got a loud pop which was apparently the anode discharging to what I assume was the metal shield that some g07's have around the tube. Shut off the monitor and just getting my discharge tool up against the rubber anode cup and got another big pop (bigger than I'd normally expect for sure). Granted, I didn't have the rubber cup on super tight like normal, but it did have a seal all the way around.
So I checked grounds, and I get less than an ohm between the monitor frame, the aqua dag, the neck board ground, and the chassis ground. I frankly don't understand the HV circuit (flows from anode wire into tube and then where?) but something is certainly off.
Prior to putting this chassis in I had another partially working chassis in there (vertical collapse) and I had no problem with the HV circuit on that one.
Someone help me out here please. It's gotta be something simple. Normally monitors don't scare me a bit but all the clicking and popping definitely got my heart pumping. You can bet I'm not coming within a half foot of that anode when the monitor is on!
