Re: Warming up

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Dennis,

MMC caps require no break in or anything like that.  They are good to go
full power immediately as is.  I'll leave the requirements for the oil caps
to those that know more than me.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 10:43 AM 1/29/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>I had a quick question about warming up caps: Is this warming up, just an 
>initial process (do you only have to do it the first time) or do you have to 
>"warm into" them every use?? Do you ahve to only break in homemade caps or 
>will I have to break in the caps that Terry is sending me too?? And.....how 
>do I know when it's done?? I have access to a variac that I'll be using . 
>Should I hook the variac up to my NST and slowly work the voltage up? 
>Also...when I hook up the cap to the variac (and probably NST?) is the cap 
>enough of a load or should I have a spark gap firing the whole time? As you 
>can see, I'm full of questions so THANKS for your patience with them!
>Dennis
>