Jim Yanik wrote in message
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"William Sommerwerck" wrote in
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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
jyanik
at
kua.net

I'm not used to seing that colour combination.
Measured about 1000Meg, by comparison with a glass cased 1Gohm , with a high
voltage source, it is grey not purple on the third band on rechecking.