@Merlin, Sometimes we forget the simplest of reasons for something happening. Mostly we’re too focused on a particular component that we skip the nearby components. However, I was wondering how your capacitor might have gotten short. Did it get blown up or was it short because of some connection issues? It is a great help if you can post how your capacitor was getting shorted and what might’ve been the reasons that kept you distracted from this issue. This information can then later be used by anyone else who is in a similar situation. It gets easy to diagnose for others this way.

Last edited by afyon; 03/11/14 03:51 PM.