Hi All, I was hoping to find some help with Capacitors here...The short question is; If I have a Capacitor(the Aluminum Can SMD style...47uF, 35v) feeding +18v to a circuit with 6 Resistors, and I solder the Capacitor on BACKWARDS, can i blow all 6 Resistors? The long questions is; so i have this device...and i broke it. It has card A, and Card B. Card A gets power from the main power source, and then feeds Card B it's power. On Card A, there are four 47uF Capacitors (Paralleled in groups of 2...one set for +18v, the other for -18v), then the ribbon that feeds Card B. Then on Card B, from what i can tell, the +18v first hits all of the Resistors (22.1Ohm SMD, Thick Film?). Here's what happened...somehow the Capacitors got shorted, and the resistors got hit so bad they blew in half. So I went through the whole thing, replaced all the Capacitors, and replaced all the resistors, and then turned the thing on again...And each resistors blew right back up. So i took a closer look, and realized I had soldered one of the capcitors on backwards, so negative was touching positive and vise versa. What i'm trying to figure out is, if i swap that Capacitor around, whats the chance that i fixed it? I really don't want to replace those resistors if i'm just gonna blow them right back up again. Thanks for the help.
Oh, and by the way...those resistors arn't in series...there are 6 similar but slightly different circuits, all next to each other, being fed from the same power. The resistors are just the first thing ( i think) in the circuit.
Oh, and by the way...those resistors arn't in series...there are 6 similar but slightly different circuits, all next to each other, being fed from the same power. The resistors are just the first thing ( i think) in the circuit.