The capacitor forming procedure is covered in the user's manual for
startup from new. However, it probably didn't anticipate 10 years of
shelf life before purchase. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/20/2012 4:39 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> Moose, do make sure you power up and do a couple full pops every month
> with that flash. It keeps the capacitor formed.
>
> I bought a box-o-bits which included a Vivitar 285HV. This flash
> probably hadn't been used in 10 years. It took me a long time to get
> it to work well again. Recovery involved a lot of gentle
> charge/discharges until it finally settled in and worked. Otherwise,
> if I just tried to hammer it with full charge/discharges, I would have
> fried it.
>
> AG
>
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