Hi Oztules many many thanks for restoring my faith in the PJ. I’m retesting things again.
But I have been warned by her indoors, if this new TV dies I’m in real trouble, she will cut down my rations to 0, O dear. Once the pressure was off I did repair the old TV. The fault was one of those surface mounted dead fly things.
(1) One thing I will have trouble with is my PV connects to the grid via the link wire between the meter and my main S/W,
So just pulling the fuse on the mains incomer will get rid of the 240v feed, but the neutral will be solid to the rest of the grid.
With the grid they try to keep neutral at earth potential, but TRY is the right word to use don’t you think.
I can’t think of an easy way round this problem.
I just cant fit a double pole Isolator, as this position is no mans land over here, the meter man can get rather hot under the collar if you play with his wiring past your main box.
(2) I can’t for the life of me see how to get the lid back on without the choke pressing hard on the lid. I know what you are going to say, WHO said the lid has to go back on. So I rewound the choke using flat braided flexible strap the type used to connect say a car battery 170a 25mm rating, its flattish and winds very easily, from Ebay 221537256689 its 24inches long, the choke now goes in with little effort. Oztules that was a fantastic link you sent me, you in full flight butchering a TV. The comment you should never be aloud to own a soldering ion, well all I can say is keep the good work up, your a man after my own heart, great.
(3) I found this little plastic spacer (see picture) any ideas where it came from??.
Ps. I think I’ve found its home, at the back of the lower negative terminal next to c30 there is a screw missing, all other screws holding the pcb down have a metal washer and two fibre wasters, I suspect in this position no fibre washers should be used so you earth out one side of c30 can you please advise me.
Sorry for the novel, many thanks your a Gent. Steve.