Bill, your second choice works out to be 92100M ohm so that's probably not right. The first choice BGBRW works out to 68.1k if we assume the last band is silver instead of white. Scince the last band is tolerance 68.1k ohms is probably what your looking for. You can check out this site. http://samengstrom.com/elec/resistor/5band.html HTH Ray --- Bil Green <tv.vcrrepair@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Panasonic PV-DM2799 > 27" TV-DVD-VCR > > The SMPS is not running and I found an open > resistor, and > a shorted STRG6651 power converter chip. D1508 was > also > shorted. > > Scraping the coating off of one side of the 1/4W > resistor, > I was able to measure as high as 100 Ohms from each > end to > the break in the center. > > It's not at all burnt, but ~200 Ohms or so isn't > even close > to the color code (any way I read it). My trick > didn't work > this time! > > The colors on the resistor are as follows: > BLUE - GRAY - BROWN - RED - WHITE > > or it could be read: > WHITE - RED - BROWN - GRAY - BLUE > > The STRG6651 reads 5 Ohms from pin 3 to pin 4 so I > figure > it's toast. > > Bil Green > PC 1000 > Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 > 760-924-1000 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lost Password: > http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login > Problems?". > Email Archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > ===== Ray Clarke Billette TV Howick, Que __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/