Reforming capacitors (technical description, not politics)

Wed Jul 29 18:49:00 CDT 2015

On 07/29/2015 03:39 PM, ben wrote:

> I would guess ripple current.

You got me there--in particular, I've had terrible luck with Sprague 
"Long Life Hermetically Sealed"  screw-terminal caps.  Just about every 
single one I've run into has been bone dry.  Useless to try to reform 
those.  Lambda used them extensively in their linear PSUs.

--Chuck