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From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Leaving computer equip. on (was: Monitor reliabilty)
Message-ID: <1772.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 20 Sep 90 11:55:26 GMT
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In <1897@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> 
>   Several years ago one of the people in our "terminal repair" service
> (which does all PC's monitors, etc) studied the failure rates of
> equipment and concluded that the failure rate per unit per year was
> 30-50% lower if the equipment was left on all the time. Turning stuff
> off over the weekend had no significant effect, but daily power cycles
> hurt badly.

I'm curious, and perhaps others are, if they told you it was the power
cycling that caused the problems because of the electrical damage, or
if the damage was caused by the resultant heat stress, or ???

-Doug
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