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Originally Posted by Mercutio
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.
~Aaron
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The other way to tell is if one wire on the cap is longer it is the positive, this is kind of a standard in the industry. If the are the same or have been cut look for the marking, IE as the next post had said the lead next to the positive sign + is the postive. Some kinds of Caps are marked on the negitive side only.