Magic Smoke Caught on camera :D Polarized Capacitor wrong turned.
Kristian Blåsol Kristian Blåsol
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 Published On Jun 29, 2021

Working on a new PCB and everything was correct, except a polarized capacitor between -12v and GND which was turned the wrong way, so a few seconds after power on some magic smoke came out. I had to watch this video many times to see where the smoke came from. I thought it was the IC, but the circuit worked flawlessly even though the cap was broken. So just a short fun video where I actually caught the magic smoke...

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