[ARC5] [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: [armyradios] NOS Electrolytics

[J. Forster]

Greater tham 20 mA.

-John

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> How much leakage?
>
> On 6/1/2014 10:08 AM, 'J. Forster' jfor at quikus.com [armyradios] wrote:
>>
>> I recently bought some Nichicon 1500uF @ 100 VDC caps to fix a Tek SC504
>> Function Generator.
>>
>> Being careul, I decided to reform them before soldering them in place...
>> and got a surprise. They had a lot of electrical leakage. So,I put them
>> on
>> an HP 6209B set to about 4mA and 100 VDC. The reforming ran overnight
>> and
>> the units are now fine.
>>
>> Moral: It is well worth reforming electrolytics, unless they have very
>> new
>> date codes, especially higher voltage ones.
>>
>> FWIW,
>>
>> -John
>>
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