5 Feb
2004
5 Feb
'04
5:47 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, CRC wrote:
To safely re-energize a piece of equipment that is
long in the tooth
and has been sitting around for some time, you have to bring the
voltage up relatively slowly to allow the electrolytic caps to
re-polarize. Everyone who is collecting should own a good-sized Variac.
You power the box up by bringing the voltage from naught to the
operational level with the Variac over a period of about a second or
One second? I've always been told to do this over the course of at least
a couple hours in 5V increments.
If I can be doing this in a much quicker time then I'd really like to know
about it.
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