On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:56:20 +0000, Cursitor Doom wrote:

BTW, there's another variant of this schematic which uses just one 560pF
500V ceramic instead of the fixed and variable combo shown on the
schematic I've previously posted, so perhaps Philips themselves had
problems with this part of the design before!

The manual I linked to in my earlier post contains *both* of the above
variants of the SMPS section, btw.