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Re: Current Sensor

How do you tell the polarity of the capacitor? I'm holding two big mustard-colored things taped on a strip that look like capacitors. They each say

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in brown writing on one side. Which side has the positive lead? I've heard that bad things can happen when you hook up electrolytic capacitors backwards, so i'm a little nervous about just doing trial and error.

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