New to this - Beovision 7802

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Hi all, I picked up a Beovision 7802 at a local flea market a couple of years ago. I had a great couple of years using it with my old Acorn Electron and Spectrum 128k+ when in January - poof! White smoke came from the back of the telly and though the picture was still on I quickly unplugged it. I've owned enough retro tech to recognise the smell of a burned out capacitor! I don't have much hands on tech experience - I think the smoke came from the right of the telly as you look at it ( so on the rear thats the left side). I can't find any drawings or schematics for this particular model. I'd hate to see this end up in a landfill, is it a simple enough repair (if it's just replacing a capacitor I'm fine with that) or is this model basically junk? I haven't seen any of these for sale online so I guess that either makes the worthless or rare! Any help and advice would be appreciated. Thanks
I quite like the orange highlight color they used on the button labels on these models! There is a service manual of the related 7700-8800 series:

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Wow thank you for such detailed information and the link to the service manual. I will have a look at that this weekend and see if it looks like it is the Rifa cap and order a modern replacement.   And I'm well aware of the dangers of working on CRTs, I've watched (from a distance) my friend repair many retro arcade cabinets!   Thanks again
On another look, there's actually another service manual, which includes the 7802:
and it's located in section D1, which appears to be here in your picture:

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