a real challange?

[Yamamaya42]

Originally Posted by dtvmcdonald

Really? The meter seems to be saying 47 megohms? perhaps the wrong picture?

Or am I drunk?

that is the right pic.

that cap burned out a 1 watt 10k resistor. that line has about 100+ volts fed to it. that 47m is all through the cap, if there was a way to do a leak test on it it would be off the scale leaking.
for it to blow that resistor it has to be really REALLY bad.