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Just realized that guy at the repair meetup was right about capacitor reforming
I met a retired TV repair guy at the Minneapolis meetup last fall. He told me to always reform old electrolytic caps slowly with a current limit before powering anything up. I thought it was overkill so I just plugged in a 1980s receiver I was fixing and one cap vented after 10 seconds. Had to replace a bunch of stuff on the board because of the mess. Anyone else learn this lesson the hard way or was it just me?
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milestaylor20d ago
Oh man, I toasted a perfectly good Pioneer amp doing that exact same thing.
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uma_johnson18d ago
Honestly though, is everybody just blaming the gear instead of the setup?
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jesse_fisher20d ago
That Pioneer stuff is unforgiving. Sorry you had to learn that the hard way too, @milestaylor.
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