17 May
2011
17 May
'11
12:09 p.m.
From: Michael Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell at
gmail.com>
One thing that puzzles me is that all these things seem to imply
powering the system's own power supply with a Variac rather than
bypassing it. Wouldn't it be possible to have connect a linear
transformer with the proper output voltages to a backplane and then
power that with the Variac to reform the caps only switching back to
the stock supply once the caps have been reformed?
Mike
The Variac transformer works because the voltage is AC. The crew at
the CHM used a programmable DC power supply to reform the capacitors,
after they disconnected them from the system..
--
Michael Thompson