Powering up sleeping uVAX II

This is not a bad idea, and reasonable for "modern" electrolytics (the quality of components, especially electrolytics, increased greatly in the 1950s, thanks to the military). If something has not been turned on for 15 or 20 years - OK, maybe it is a worthwhile precaution, but nothing to go nuts over. Otherwise, just a power up, perhaps with the supplies not feeding anything, will almost always work. If a cap blows, chances are great that it was failing due to another reason (moisture getting thru the seals is a culprit), and would have blown at some point anyway. All the years I have been doing this, I have never had an electrolytic drastically fail, and have only personally seen it once on someone else's equipment. The failure did not damage anything else. Electrolytics from the 30s and 40s are a different story. William Donzelli aw288 at osfn.org