Replace - no, I don't agree - especially not for those of us who don't have the kind of budget that your organization has. In my experience, for equipment of this quality and vintage, 95% or more of the time an hour to a few hours of re-forming is all that is necessary - and as Tony has pointed out, even that is not often really necessary.
JRJ On 7/17/2015 1:33 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: >> It is generally a good idea to re-form electrolytic capacitors in power >> supplies, and to bench check the power supplies (under some kind of >> load) before actually applying power to the whole unit. > > It is always a good idea to replace electrolytic capacitors in power supplies. > The rest of the advice is sound. > > Rich > > Rich Alderson > Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer > Living Computer Museum > 2245 1st Avenue S > Seattle, WA 98134 > > mailto:ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org > > http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/ >
