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From: dave@spool.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Leaving AT (really monitor) on
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Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 12:06:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 12:06:15 1987
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Summary: leave your monitor on

In article <1623@eecae.UUCP> lawitzke@eecae.ee.msu.edu (John Lawitzke) writes:
>IS it better for the CRT to be left on constantly (as far as the cathode
>and analog sweep circuitry) or to be turned on and off once a day?

I can't speak about an AT monitor in particular, but here in the UW CS
dept, we leave the monitors on for all terminals and workstations 24
hours a day, all year long.  In the case of the B/W uvaxII monitors,
cycling the power is really hard on their circuits.  We recently moved
to our new building and lost three or four monitors because we had to
turn them off and on.  My monitor now has problems but is still usable
(it's been replaced once already).  I also leave the monitor on my home
terminal on all the time (I do turn down the brightness when I'm not
using it); cycling the power on it also makes the screen do strange
things until it is fully warmed up.

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