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<blockquote data-quote="Mike D90" data-source="post: 219248" data-attributes="member: 17556">Actually, this is a help. I have done a lot of reading on this and seems that it can take many many hours to form the capacitor again and most will eventually come back to life.&nbsp; This flash is immaculate and there is no corrosion whatsoever anywhere in the battery compartment or battery holder.I was just able to revive an older Vivitar 2800 that wouldn't work at first.&nbsp; took me a couple of nights of fooling with it to get it to fire. Now it works fine.&nbsp; I hope this 285HV will do the same.Using the &quot;AA&quot; batteries makes sense so as to give the capacitor a &quot;slow&quot; charge so that is what I will do and is what is mostly recommended.I ahve read the best way to do this is turn it on for a few minutes then shut it down for a few hours. Turn it on again and let it charge for a few minutes and then off to rest for a few hours. Do this over and over and eventually the capacitor will form.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike D90, post: 219248, member: 17556"] Actually, this is a help. I have done a lot of reading on this and seems that it can take many many hours to form the capacitor again and most will eventually come back to life. This flash is immaculate and there is no corrosion whatsoever anywhere in the battery compartment or battery holder. I was just able to revive an older Vivitar 2800 that wouldn't work at first. took me a couple of nights of fooling with it to get it to fire. Now it works fine. I hope this 285HV will do the same. Using the "AA" batteries makes sense so as to give the capacitor a "slow" charge so that is what I will do and is what is mostly recommended. I ahve read the best way to do this is turn it on for a few minutes then shut it down for a few hours. Turn it on again and let it charge for a few minutes and then off to rest for a few hours. Do this over and over and eventually the capacitor will form. [/QUOTE]

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