On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 14:07 -0500, 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?

Any chance? Yes. But the chance it has any charge left is pretty much
zero. 

> Are there any other precautions I should look at?

Not really, microwaves are pretty simply devices with only a few
components, none of which is much of a treat if it's been unplugged for
a while. About the only thing I can see is something sharp. TTYL

-----------------------------
Herbert's PIC Stuff:
http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/

-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist