> From: Matt Rossiter - Verio Southern
> California[SMTP:matt@rossiters.com]
>
> The *real* strange thing occured when I unplugged all the connectors and
> left the power supply on all day. When I got home - I plugged everything
> back in - and it worked!
>
> My roomate suggested that the caps in the power supply may have dried up
> and that leaving the power supply on all day caused them to "form" - and
> then work properly.
>
> Would anyone care to explain this phenomena? I can't think of any other
> reason my game would just start working after being dead since the day I
> got it.
>
>
> I've just been reading about reforming caps in the tube audio newsgroups.
> It applies to them because they're usually talking about restoring old
> radios, with dubious 'lytic caps, that haven't been run in a while.
>
> Something to do with the electrolyte dissociating when it's powered up.
> Like electrolysis of water (hence the root through all of this: electro- )
>
> Brendan Keith
> brendan.keith@wilcom.com
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jan 6 14:08:19 1999
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