On 10/19/05, Juan Cubillo wrote: > Hello group, > > About a year ago some spikes in the main power lines damaged my microwave > oven. I bought a new one and stored the damaged old one under some books. > Today, I was thinking about opening the oven "just to see what it looks like > inside". I know this things have some dangerous high voltage capacitors on > them. > I was thinking about connecting a 10k/47K resistor to the cap leads to > discharge it just in case it had some stored volts that may shock me. > Is there any chance that the cap still has a stored charge? no > Are there any other precautions I should look at? sharp parts for your fingers. A microwave oven doesn't have too many parts which may broken: -the magnetron (filament broken or without gas) -the capacitor may be scurtcircuited (or the capacitor`s protective diode) - HV diode may be interrupted - door switch (at least two) may be deffective - thermal switch (two or three) may be opened - programming tool does not working In rest OK Vasile -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist