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Old 04-27-2011, 10:21 PM
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A .005 wouldn't be an electrolytic, at least not under normal circumstances. (I'm not sure you could ever buy them in such a small value?) Some "paper" caps were marked as polarized but it wasn't anything critical, you couldn't really hurt anything by installing them backwards. Now, a true electrolytic installed backwards, yes, that can cause real problems. I've done that more than once!
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