Re: Cap orientation help needed

Posted by Neil mcNasty on Apr 23, 2015; 8:36pm
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Cap-orientation-help-needed-tp19761p19772.html

Are you saying that you have 100nf electrolytic caps?
I have never seen that before... Are you shure that it's nf and not uf/mf that you've got?
As far as I can tell, a 100nf electrolytic is something I've never come across... (Electrolytics normally range from 0.22uf (220nf) and upwards..

Here is a alternative solution:
If you connect caps in paralell, you double the value, so if you got 2 x 47nf caps you can put them side by side and get 94nf (stick 2 of them in the same holes on the vero), that should be close enough...
There's normally a 5-10% error margin on componets, except potensiometers that has a 20% error margin, so you should get pretty good results using two 47nf caps in parallel, instead of a 100nf.

If you actually have a 100nf electrolytic, I would have the + side towards the input of the signal, but that requires some knowledge about how the audio signal travels trough your circuit, unless it is the input cap (then reverse it, as far as I know...)

Hopefully someone with a slight better knowledge about this will chip in an correct me, cause I might be wrong... But I could also be right... 😜