PowerEngineer wrote:
If the flash has not been used in a long time then you might want to start out at minimum power and make a few pops at each level until you reach full output. I've read that this can help re-form the capacitors if they've sat idle for a long time. (the caps I normally deal with are MUCH larger and sit on utility poles!)
I think the caps still get hit with a full charge from the moment you power it on, just not a full discharge when you run them in low power. I play guitar and dabble with vintage amps. We use a variac to power up old amps by running them at lower voltages, then gradually bring the voltage up over time to reform the caps. I don't know if this will work for strobes but I do know you don't really want to slam an old cap with voltage.
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