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“if you have 0v at the base then the light is not turned on. have you tried to remove the transistor and measure the base voltage again (to see if the transistor is not base/emitter shorted) you can even measure 2C56 is this cap is not shorted/or has low impedance compared to the 33K resistor. Especially since it seems to be tantalum”
Yup, pulling it was my default next step, was just trying to see if there was a common known other cause for the lamp fault before diving in. Its the same MPSA13 type transistor that I think was root cause of failure that cascaded through the power amp stage transistors so I am suspicious of it anyway. Have a few new ones in packet so it will get pulled and tested. BTW the recap also included the tantalum ones including 2C56 (yellow ones in the photo of board, the blue ones are some of the many many many original orange electrolytics… they looked super cool but a couple even had visibly cracked cases).
