"William Sommerwerck" wrote in
:

In that are is what looked like an afterthougt 1W resistor to ground,
marked brown black brown. Surely not if a few hundred volts there.
With a good light brought into the area I could then see it is brown
black
purple.
Just an ordinary looking MO resistor, enamelled ,no glass
encapsulation,
but
1 Gigohm.

Wouldn't that be 100M? (10 x 10^7)




yes.

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Jim Yanik
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at
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