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

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.

Send Chris an email at VH Audio and see what he recommends. He does this very thing with the V Caps that he sells.

The coupling caps I know are all rated for high voltage AC or DC. I've broken in bunches wired in parallel across zip cord into an AC outlet. But I suppose the ideal burn-in would run the voltage up and down through the cap's range and use a resistive load to drain it constantly.

Wire them in series with any 100 watt lamp and let them run a week or two.

Not recommended for low voltage polarized lytics.

Regards
Paul