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Re: Working on the HV Section of a 533A


Brenda
 

Hi Jeff! Great to see you are working on your 533A! I have one as well, but it's in really bad shape on the inside. Those 2 back strips is perfectly normal. My 535A and my 545A is like that as well. I read somewhere on the forum that it's called corona dope, since that is where the 10KV is. I think that you will find that after a really good cleaning of the HV board that everything will be just fine. You really do want that coating to be on those last 2 strips, but don't worry, it's really hard to get off. As far as those 2 Black Beauties goes, most likely, those will be just fine. It's a "newer" scope as by this time, Tektronix got rid of the bad capacitors as your HV section has ceramic and those will be just fine as well. I have a few scopes that use these Black Beauties with the red writing to be fully functional. The ones with the yellow writing are most likely going to be very leaky.

Brenda

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