At 01:28 PM 11/24/2004, Olin Lathrop wrote:

>PicDude wrote:
> > Late last night, while building a 3-output power supply, a capacitor
> > burned out (it just made a poof sound and the electrolyte leaked out)
> > and it's totally baffling me.
>
>Most likely possibility:  The capacitor was in backwards.  They do take it
>for a while, then BOOM.  I know you said you checked this.  Check it again.
>I still think it's the most likely explanation.

How is that output regulated?

I've seen flyback switchers do this where the regulated output has a heavy 
load, and the unregged outputs voltage went higher than the designer 
anticipated.

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