"Bill S." wrote in message
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Thanks. Was shorted yoke a common problem on these?
Set seems to be working, but hate to send it out without
the Zener, which offers some protection.


Protection from what... a short in the Hor. to Vert. yoke windings?
Then the zener shorts and the vertical output IC blows regardless.

Most older TV sets never had a zener diode at the vertical output.
The only thing it's good for, as far as I can tell, is for the repair
business!

That zener will blow the vertical IC whenever that zener gets shorted.
And it does that frequently but never again... if one cuts one side of
the shorted zener and leave it in the TV that way.

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