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Re: GS Monitor keeps getting brighter



D Finnigan wrote:
Silicon Sam wrote:

  No, but it's simple to diagnose if you are technically inclined.  In
a case like this you need a hair dryer or small heat gun, and a can of
Freeze Spray (with tube).  Between heating with the gun, and chilling
the components, it takes hardly any time to find which component is
faulty.  Could be a cap, transistor or IC component causing it.
Adjustment isn't going to do any good, you need to track down the bad
part.

Thank you for your advice; I will try it out.

About 5 minutes after I posted my original question, I received a response via email:

Your filter capacitors are cooked.  Any tv repairman can replace these.

It is almost certainly *not* the "filter capacitors" (which refers to
the capacitors in the power supply).

It is much more likely to be a coupling or bypass capacitor in the
cathode or grid circuits, or a high-value resistor in those circuits.

-michael

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