What should I trust ohm-meter or eyes?

Hello,

I desoldered 2 resistors from a bad switching supply.

With a multimeter and a LCR meter I found 660 ohms. But it's not what I read with color code.
There was a black Heat shrink tubing around. Pcb is burned below resistors.

What replacement parts do i order ?
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Not have schematic 🙁
Placed at the secondary side followed by some capacitors. As Mark said surely not the original colours. Measures give the same value... 660 ohm. What are the probabilities for two resistances to be damaged the same way ?

If I can avoid more destructions 😉
 
Black - brown - orange: 1k
Black - orange - brown: 30 Ohm
Well... No resistor value starts with black as black is zero.

1 kΩ = brown, black, red (assuming ±5% or worse tolerance)
30 Ω = orange, black, black (assuming ±5% or worse tolerance)

The tolerance band is the band that's further away from the others. Black is not a valid colour for tolerance. I'm going to guess that was gold (±5 %) at one point. MOX resistors are generally not better than ±5 % anyway, and it looks like it was part of a snubber, so replacing it with a ±5 % type is probably fine.

It's pretty clear on my monitor that there are three different colours: Black, dark brown, and light brown. If we assume that the three rings were different colours to start with, 1 kΩ (brown, black, red) makes the most sense. 1 kΩ sounds high for a snubber, though.

I would scour the 'net for pictures of the supply and see if you can glean the colours on the resistor from those.

Tom
 
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On second thought: Is the white 6-pin connector the output? If so, could they simply be bleeder resistors? If so, any value will do. Just observe the power dissipation so you don't cook the board any further.
They could also be there to ensure the supply sees a minimum load. In that case 1 kΩ or 12 kΩ (brown, red, orange) could be right.

Do you have an idea of the output voltage of this supply?

Tom
 
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Were there three of them? It's clear that the board has room for three resistors.

12 kΩ across 24 V is only 48 mW, though. That's not enough to turn a resistor like that into char. Judging by the dimensions, it's probably a 1 W resistor. Maybe 2 W. 1 W @ 24 V -> R = 576 Ω. Only a fool would run the resistors right at their dissipation limit, so if we figure they were derated by a factor of 2x, we get 1152 Ω. Could they be 1200 Ω (brown, red, red)? Maybe the middle of the resistor was a bit cooler so that red stripe turned a lighter brown than the red stripe closer to the top...

There are some types of MOX resistors that can handle higher temperatures. I use some 3 W types that are barely larger than the old style 1 W ones. Just hop on Mouser/Digikey and search for metal oxide resistors (or power resistors more broadly). Use the selection filters to narrow your search and pick the highest power resistor that'll fit on the board.

Tom
 
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