power up a 10 year dormant MicroVax II - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Mar 2006

hmmm caps failing. Another lister powered on a puter
hes going to send me. After a few hours one cap was
had cooked itself to perfection...mmmmmm love that
smell. Maybe then I should run the p/s under load for
a few hours at least. I like my caps well toasted but
not my chips!
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
<mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:
...
  > of course Id take some time to poke around
inside, blow out the dust,
...
  > etc., but I was cautioned against even powering
it up without
...
  > enlisting -local help- since its been sitting for
so long.  Should I
...
   take such
warnings seriously?  
 In general, yes.  In the case of a uV2?  I don't think so, though I'm
...
  sure there are better people to speak definitively
about it.  I've seen
...
  it said that the uV2 is recent enough that there is
little-to-no chance
...
  that the electrolytics have failed sitting.

 My experience bears this out - I've done a few uV2 turn-ons after long
...
  years idle, with no failures - but the sample size
is too small to lend
...
  any statistical validity to that.

 					der Mouse 

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