>From all the caps i've seen so far (bout 15 yrs) the white line is always
negative, i dun bother with the length of their leads tho...

Terry



At 11:40 AM 7/8/99 -0400, you wrote:
>... by the rule of the thumb (rule of stripe here), white band is
>positive side and long lead is to ground... for sure... except if it is
>reversed...  :)... confused?... me too.
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>Wagner.
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>Matt Bonner wrote:
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>> James Newton wrote:
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>> > I just bought a big old 1mF electrolytic cap ... and opened
>> > it to find that the only indication
>> > of the polarity is a white band down one side (by the shorter of the two
>> > leads)
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>> > So... which lead goes to Vcc and which goes to GND?
>> >
>> The white band indicates the positive side, ergo: short lead to Vcc and
>> longer lead to Gnd.
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>> --Matt
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