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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Leave it on?  Or once a week?
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Date: 21 Feb 90 00:21:55 GMT
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In article<6117@hydra.gatech.EDU>gt3006d@gatech.UUCP (Charlie Patterson) writes:
>I'm almost convinced to leave my Mac on, but two questions are
>still unanswered:
>What about the Mac Plus, which has no fan.  Five or six hours
>and this thing feels hot!
>Independent of electricity cost (I can do basic multiplication)
>how much will it cost to leave my Mac on.  For instance, how
>many kWh will I be consuming?

 I have  Mac Plus running a BBS, it is on 24 hours a day, I do have a fan
 installed, along with a Radius Accellerator. I have a Jasmine and Quantum
 drive attached, also running 24 hours a day, the Plus does not seem to
 care,  in 3 years have had one analog board fail, which I don't think is
 unusual or bad for a Plus. It is my opinion, leave it on..
  
  I also have an SE and IIcx that I always leave on, unless I am gone
  for more than a couple days, then these units get turned off. The SE
  has had no problems and has been on at least 2 years now, and the IIcx
  has been on for almost a year now and no problems at all, zero, none.
  So I say, leave it on, it does not hurt, its probably better all the
  way around for the equipment, hard disks included, and will probably
  increase the life of the unit.

-- 
Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
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