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Quoted from vid1900:A LOT of times the little spring in a lamp socket will break off and short the socket.
On the GI, that pops the fuse, but with feature lamps, you just kill the scr (sometimes violently). I have done that more than once.
I would lean more towards a bridge rectifier installed wrong, bridge shorted, or xformer wire hooked up wrong.
Test the bridge rectifier with your dmm. That is painless ez first step.
Quoted from G-P-E:Bad Varistors? Bizarre. Gotta ask - what was wrong with them?
Regarding the original poster's problem - first thing I would check is to make sure none of the wires to the "E" points were swapped. And no solder bridge/stray wire strands on bottom.
There has been a few posts about bad varistors from a repro board seller. The posts i have read, make it sound like it is just a dead short across the leads. Instant blowing of the solenoid fuse, no visual defect or wrong marking on the varistor.
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