Re: Cap orientation help needed

Posted by Silver Blues on Apr 30, 2015; 4:56pm
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Cap-orientation-help-needed-tp19761p20025.html

motterpaul wrote

Yeah, I read that post and said "right on" - It is not that caps flip the ground, it is that caps turn AC into DC, thereby putting all the voltage on the plus side - with is different from swapping ground.

That's not entirely correct. A cap doesn't "turn AC into DC", that's what a rectifier is for. I'll refer you back to Induction's post:

"For our purposes, you can just pretend that the cap is jumper for AC, and an open circuit for DC."

It doesn't "turn" anything "into" anything else.