if an electrolytic cap was in backwards?

[bgadow]

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!

[jbivy]

oh, well it had the bar on one end meaning it should face away from the tube socket where it was hooked up. The replacement was facing in.

*shrugs*

Perhaps i was just hoping that they installed this backwards, blew a few things and thats why the tv was mothballed.