On 06/12/2019 14:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
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.
Well, The TV does not have an ON/Off switch, so unless I want to bend down to
the power socket and unplug it (Leaving the PVR on) It lives in standby.
Along the same line, the screens on my computers have one of these EON device
controllers that switches them off when the main device (Computer) is switched
off so they do get switched off and on (once a day).
P.
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