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Mates bread maker stopped working so I had a look inside and saw this burned resistor.

I'm guessing the heat changed the colors a bit so wondering if anyone has experience in reading cooked resistor values.

I removed it from the PCB and measured it at 403 Ohms.

Thanks for any help.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks correct to me, by the color codes...

...but how in the world do you burn a 1 GΩ resistor? That looks sort of like it could be a 1 watt resistor too. So back-of-the-napkin this would have to be from over a 30kV supply. So that sounds a bit off.

Unless it isn't. One hell of a bread maker then. I want one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only thing I can think of, maybe it's a bleeder resistor for that cap, and it failed by some kind of internal short which reduced its resistance (and increased its heat dissipation hence the blackened board)? But fails-short is an unusual failure mode for a resistor and 1 GΩ is pretty high even for a bleeder, so maybe we're misreading something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It got really hot and the colours changed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think you're right.