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Originally Posted by poncho-mike
I was relocated 150 miles away from home in 1992. We had a 5-year old that wouldn't leave the stereo alone, and I was tired of zip tying the doors on the stereo cabinet shut. After the move, I never set my system back up, it's still in its original boxes.
My system consists of a Harmon Kardon Citation 17 pre-amp with a Citation 19 amplifier, a H-K tuner and cassette deck, a Dual turntable with Infinity Reference Standard 1.5 speakers. I've been thinking about bringing it out of hibernation lately, but I've been reading that old electronics like that will often blow the caps on initial power on. Has anyone dealt with old electronics like this and have any suggestions? I found a guy several states away a couple of years ago who said he would bring up voltage slowly and replace any caps that fail, but I wasn't comfortable packing up my electronics and sending it to a stranger.
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Bringing the voltage up slowly allows the electrolytic caps to re-form prior to seeing the full operating voltage. Use a variac like the blue object in the attached. Mostly for the 19 power amp but doing the same on the 17 is probably good too. The others probably not an issue.