Hi all,

Historically we've subjected our units to a "power on" 11hr "burn-in" at
125F (prior to final testing).   This burn-in costs very little to perform,
since a hot room is already set up.

There has been talk of discontinuing this practice -- In fact the subject
comes up at least once a year.

Question....  Is it not just good practice to have a unit powered up for a
period of time before shipping it to an end user?   Otherwise it has only a
minute, or so, of history (during test) under power.  Is it not "better than
nothing"?

Any feedback would be appreciated.  What are others doing out there?

Jeff

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