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From: stevens@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: turning off the monitor
Message-ID: <953@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 15:15:17 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.953
Posted: Mon Jan 26 15:15:17 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Jan-87 04:13:51 EST
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Reply-To: stevens@unix.macc.wisc.edu.UUCP (pAul sTevens)
Organization: UW-Madison Academic Computer Center
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Concerning turning the power supply on and off (vs. turning
the computer itself on and off).  I have a very early
model of the ST and worried a lot when I read reports
of the early power supplies zapping the computer.  Just
by accident I have always turned the supply on and off
at the wall switch and, for 1-1/2 years have had no problems.
I wonder if the early model supplies were producing extra
high voltage under no-load conditions.  Then when you turn
the computer on, you would apply too high a voltage to it
for several milliseconds.  Turning it on at the wall
switch would avoid the problem.
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