[sdiy] elect caps vs. polyester caps

[harrybissell]

I might add that the same issue could come up if
you mount resistors vertically...  When I do that I make
the ground lead the 'long one' to keep the higher
impedance side shorter.

H^) harry

Ian Fritz wrote:
> 
> At 11:55 AM 3/26/06, harrybissell wrote:
> 
> >One side of the foil is on the 'outside' of the cap. If this side is
> >tied
> >to ground or to the lower impedance in the circuit (opamp output) that
> >foil might act as a shield to lower noise pickup.
> >
> >If the cap is not clear, though... it will be very hard to tell which
> >side is which... :^P
> 
> Sometimes they have a stripe at one end.  Does this indicate the outside?