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harlon
Location: USA
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 Posted - Mon Jun 09, 2003 10:02 pm
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I HATE hardware units that don't have on/ off switches!! There - I said it. Just had to get that off my chest. I feel better now.
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ozpeter
Location: Australia
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Posted - Mon Jun 09, 2003 11:38 pm
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I once toured some BBC Radio facilities in London and remarked to my guide that even in unoccupied studios, everything was left powered up. I was told that this actually improved the life of the equipment, the surges etc ocurring during power up/down being more damaging than the deterioration of components during steady running. This, however, was before the days when environmental considerations were thought about. The building was certainly uncomfortably warm.
An afterthought - here in Australia you can get remote-control power points quite cheaply (ie a thing that plugs into the wall socket, and then you plug your equipment into that, via a distribution board if you like) - I use them for powering off/on switchless stuff connected to hard-to-reach sockets.
- Ozpeter
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Graeme
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Location: Spain
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Posted - Tue Jun 10, 2003 2:14 am
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| ozpeter wrote: |
| I once toured some BBC Radio facilities in London and remarked to my guide that even in unoccupied studios, everything was left powered up. I was told that this actually improved the life of the equipment, the surges etc ocurring during power up/down being more damaging than the deterioration of components during steady running. |
I agree with this practice 100% - it's something which I have done for as long as I can remember. Apart from reducing the probability of breakdown, it also ensures that everything is running at a constant temperature and ready for instant use, with no warm-up drift, etc.
... and before anyone asks, no, I am not BBC trained - they don't have the sole right to good ideas and engineering practice.
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SteveG
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted - Tue Jun 10, 2003 3:22 am
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| This approach is fine if the manufacturer has designed the power supply so that it can cope with |
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