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Last Activity: 03-11-2009, 05:16 PM
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  • Re: Connected cap inverted,could that damage the other capacitors?

    As I said on the end of the post I tried booting it without this capacitors and it booted fine,but I also hearded that the xbox will boot without a single capacitor and will just have artifacts on the screen,so I still can't be sure some nearby capacitor was damaged by the mistake of connecting these ones in reverse.
    I guess nothing happened with the other capacitors,but I just wanted to make sure,if anyone can confirm that I then can be relieved
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    Last edited by GamerBR; 03-10-2009, 08:18 PM.

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  • Connected cap inverted,could that damage the other capacitors?

    I've wrongly connected 3 capacitors with the polarity inverted on my Xbox 360,it was not turning on,and after a few tries one blew up,I touched it and it was pretty hot,the other two were not.I then went and checked the polarity and I've saw that I connected all 3 inverted.Not important now,but the reason I did that was because there was a + near a circle to connect the capacitor,and that made me thought the positive hole was near that +,but that + was for another circle,and I used this to assume that the white portion of the circle was the positive side,but it was the negative.
    So,the...
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