Capacitor burn in, Capacitor Cooker? Need help...

The best way to "break something in," be it electrical or mechanical, is to simply put it into the intended service application.

I haven't used it, but Jim Hagerman makes a burn-in generator called the FryBaby: http://www.hagtech.com/frybaby.html

Mingles,
The fry baby looks good for 39 bucks.. However not sure that it can do capacitors or not, I will have to investigate as they don't state much beyond using it on standard interconnect applications.. The power might be too low anyway, but also only a battery life of about a day so I guess not a big deal but buying about 8 9volt batteries to burn up on this process will cost as much as the unit in the end.

For a poor man's break-in, solder the cap to some lamp cord and plug into AC for a month or so.

Dgarretson, exactly how? Just take an old 2 prong power cord attach one lead of the cap to the neutral and the other to the Hot and plug in?

First not sure this is a great idea, but secondly being AC power is back and forth reversomg all the time might do more harm than good to burning in a DC single direction capacitor being used in a DC application such as an audio component, or speakers being used in one current flow direction. I think you need a constant regulated DC source of some sort do do this correctly and be effective, as well as safe, and probably not much more power than about 9 to 15 volts DC or something it seems.

But I could be wrong, I did see a guy that makes such a device using any old transformer from like a VCR or something and it steps down to 9 volts with a like resistor or something etc making up a simple circuit etc.. To make a nice Cap cooker, but I was looking for a more simple solution.

I just don't think a 120 volt A/C fluxuating home power outlet would be the right solution for a DC single direction application cap.