5 Feb
2004
5 Feb
'04
6:12 p.m.
> > 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
Then duck! IMHO opinion, and over 40+ years experience, to reform
funky caps takes anywhere from a few minutes to over an hour, depending on
many variables. If you think you've formed an electrolytic in one second,
it was either tiny or good-to-begin-with.