Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!hc!hi!erikj
From: erikj@hi.unm.edu (Erik Johannes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Power Supplies in Amigas
Keywords: Spikes Surges and Leave it ON or OF
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Date: 6 Jan 88 22:40:41 GMT
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Reply-To: erikj@hi.unm.edu (Erik Johannes)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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	I always leave my Amiga up and running.  The reasons are that I heard 
it is easier on the electronics and it is a lot more convinient for me to just
walk up to my computer, turn on the monitor, and start typing.  I have 
encoutered power glitches.  Some of them lasted for a couple seconds and reset
the clocks in the house.  However the Amiga has weathered all the glitches.
The only time I would be woried is if my drives were active at the time of
the glitch.  Also in the future when I add the 2 Meg memory expansion that
I have ordered, it's additional power consumption may not allow the Amiga
to safely ride through the glitches.

	One thing I recomend is to be running POPCLI or some other screen
saver program.  This way if you accidently leave the monitor on, it will
help to keep from burning the phospher.
 
	Finally one other thing I have thought of is it there is a complete
power failure.  When the power would come back on, the Amiga would be trying
to boot.  If it kept trying to do this for several days it might be hard on
the disk drive.  Because of this, when I leave for several days I turn the
Amiga off.  
			-Erik