Thanks florian, the red stripe is the opposite way to how Id imagined- its supposed to be pointing to the board not the edge of the PCB.

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Florian Anwander <fanwander@...> wrote:
>
> I don't own a A132-4, but looking at
> http://www.doepfer.de/A100_pictures/a-132-4.jpg I can see that there are
> two black-and-grey capacitors direct aside the connector.
>
> The grey stripe on the capacitor marks the negative side. Now check on
> the solder side of the pcb to which end of the multipin connector the
> corresponding negativ pin of the capacitor is connected to. This should
> be the end of the connector with the red strip.
>
> Florian
>
>
> andy wrote:
> > So I realised the horizontal power header wasn't marked after
> > removing the cable... Does anyone know which direction to attach the
> > cable on the PCB for this module I'm assuming the red stripe is
> > parallel to the edge of the board (pointing to the text jp1 on the
> > PCB) but could anyone check this to prevent me frying anything
> > please.
> >
>