Hi, Terry wrote: > The qualified answer is that there is no doubt that far from reducing > the lifetime of components, leaving an electronic device turned on > increases reliability.
That's definitely true for some things. My main computer is an Acer Revo bought early 2011. Nine years is more that I expected to get out of it. I did have to replace the rusty hard drive at the first sign of trouble, but that was only sixteen months ago. For all but the first year or so of its life it's been running continuously. Even its small original fan is happy. I've found all electric kettles purchased in the last eight or so years fail, typically after just over a year, sometimes under. Doesn't matter if they're unbranded ones sold as a supermarket's own, or branded ones at three times the price. Which? magazine seem to have finally cottoned onto this problem after someone wrote in to complain their kettle reviews don't take longevity into account. The other common failure point I find on TV, monitors, and mobile phones, is the on/off switch. That small button you hold in. The TV one started to be erratic so now it's left ‘on’, switched to standby with the remote control, and powered off at the mains wall socket. The monitor's switch did the same so the monitor is left on all the time, relying on the PC to switch it to standby. The power switch goes wrong with mobiles so often that there's quite a few apps to repurpose another button, e.g. volume. As for putting the TV on standby. Here, it's typically only for a concentrated period of an evening so it's powered off all the other hours. I'd suggest, Peter, that whether to switch to standby depends on how long you think you'll be gone and the odds that it will be much longer. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2020-01-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
