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Hello, I've been working on one of these monitor chassis for an arcade i volunteer at, I did a full recap and it stopped the old issue of the relay clicking on steady loop. I was told it was left operating for six days and stopped working, now clicking with a short pulse of 15khz noise about every second. I brought it home by itself to troubleshoot further over the week. I measured the low voltages 7 12 25 +V B+, wrote what i read in an image to help keep track of test;points. At some point I hear something happen and the relay started clicking slower, about 2 seconds now an being on slightly longer, and all the voltages that were below half what they were meant to be went back to normal. I don't remember what the voltages on the lower right winding are currently (like +V), if what i wrote was before or after the sudden change while troubleshooting.
After the noise i hear and recheking low voltages on the diode pins, i checked the HOT which i didn't before, and wrote what i read. I haven't gone this in-depth with troubleshooting a chassis and i'm not sure if the HOT is just dead or if there might be some other component leading to the input that could be the problem. I've heard of these boards blowing replacement HOTs instantly too so I'm afraid of simply replacing it and hoping. Since I'm uncertain, does this seem like a blown HOT in the readings i noted? Pin 2 is at 15khz like pin 1 but slightly lower voltage and a more distorted pulse than 1, to clarify. Mainly unsure if the input(?) is meant to be ~2.4Vpp.
If new measurements or pictures are desired I can check them. Also i haven't cheked HV, i don't think i can/should with my standard probes, i know 2 volt Horiz deflection isnt right...

Forgot to add, using this schematic: https://na.suzohapp.com/pdf/service_pdfs/makvision/makvision49-3056-00_schematic.pdf
Thank you!
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