[jcassity]

Ed yes I did change that capacitor you're speaking about

I also found that my 10 Meg Ohm resistor was reading about 7 Meg so I put a two Meg in series with it to see if it helped to cure anything

the 40 ohm power resistor is getting extremely hot still

I am measuring 463 milli amps

the calculator tells me that needs to be a 10-watt resistor at a minimum but 35 or 40 would probably work better

maybe I should also focus on where the excessive current draw is at