Forgot to mention the resistor location no. R1502 Bil Green PC 1000 Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 760-924-1000 Monday, November 1, 2004, 11:50:26 PM, you wrote: BG> Panasonic PV-DM2799 BG> 27" TV-DVD-VCR BG> The SMPS is not running and I found an open resistor, and BG> a shorted STRG6651 power converter chip. D1508 was also BG> shorted. BG> Scraping the coating off of one side of the 1/4W resistor, BG> I was able to measure as high as 100 Ohms from each end to BG> the break in the center. BG> It's not at all burnt, but ~200 Ohms or so isn't even close BG> to the color code (any way I read it). My trick didn't work BG> this time! BG> The colors on the resistor are as follows: BG> BLUE - GRAY - BROWN - RED - WHITE BG> or it could be read: BG> WHITE - RED - BROWN - GRAY - BLUE BG> The STRG6651 reads 5 Ohms from pin 3 to pin 4 so I figure BG> it's toast. BG> Bil Green BG> PC 1000 BG> Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 BG> 760-924-1000 BG> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BG> Lost Password: BG> http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". BG> Email Archives: BG> //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/