Re: Power supply question.....

Hi Alan,

Can you expand on this a little ?

> I still, with any cap old or new
> over 10,000 uf or so, connect it
> to a power supply with a
> 100k - 1meg or so series resistor.
> Lets it reform slowly and gives
> me an idea of leakage.

I saw a post recently about a gentleman who procured multiple caps
and then reformed? recovered ? them by a similar action.

I have a 68K cap from some old Telco equipment. 100k ohm to bleed off
the stored energy when not in use.

Dave

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