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What's your opinion about waking up your sparechassis sometimes?
What happens when a chassis lays for 10 years on a shelf and comes to life?
Heard that some electronics for example capacitors don't like being unused for so long.
Are there other components, like relays, have problems with this?
Not a problem here... out spare chassis get rotated on to the machines when one needs to come off for new contactor contacts, etc... It's nice having a couple spares to do that... don't have to worry about getting on chassis ASAP because it needs contacts. Put a spare on, then rebuild the contacts, inspect the chassis, and clean it at your leisure... then put the rebuilt and cleaned chassis into rotation as the next 'spare'.
<span style="font-style: italic">Educatio est omnium efficacissima forma rebellionis</span>
Capacitors are the weak link, but not very often. If you are using Omega Teks, that board dosn't care anyway! Relays, well there is a "potential" problem - a lot of centers are using the originals (1960's era) & they can become flakey after, oh, 40 years. I know it is lil pricey, but new relays will say you a lot of potential headaches. Heck, after 40 years of "use" I get a lil flakey too! [img]/content/btubb/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif[/img] The prior replies are excellent ways to do things - rotate them whenever possible.
I rebuilt all our spares, we now have 6. 3 for each side. They do get use in rotation when new contacts or something is needed, the spare goes on but I'm a stickler for chassis's staying on the same machine so when the original is done it goes back and the spare comes off. Next time one needs work I'll use a different spare then the 1st time, and so on and so forth. Before I rebuilt them they sat for at least 6 years all with pretty minor problems and once they were repaired they all ran like champs
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