Honeywell 316 Question

From: Owen Robertson <univac2_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Feb 20 22:56:06 2002

I suppose "picked up" was a bit of an understatement. However I don't think
the reality of the fact that a Honeywell 316 is sitting in my sun room has
quite sunk in. Thank you for the advice. I will certainly follow it.

--
Owen
on 2/20/02 12:58 PM, Sellam Ismail at foo_at_siconic.com wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
> 
>> I picked up a Honeywell 316 from a local scrap yard today. I gave the inside
> 
> Damn nice find!  But you don't just "pick up" a Honeywell 316 ;)
> 
>> The power supply has no cord coming out of it. What is does have is a
>> standard 3-prong plug sticking out of the back, just like the kind that
>> plugs into the wall. So, can I just run an extension cord from it to the
>> wall, or is there something more to it than that?
> 
> I would imagine this has some big fat caps that would need to be
> brought up to nominal voltage slowly in case they need to be reformed.  I
> would definitely try to find a Variac to bring this up slowly over the
> course of a couple hours, say 5 volts every 5 minutes.
> 
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