On Or Off For Recievers.

[MasterChief]

Someone told me once that turning electronics on and off is worse than leaving it on for long time.So for my reciever sometimes ill leave the room and it would be on low for a while im thinking wats better idea lol turning it off or just leaving it low. sounds crazy but i was interested in know what you guys have to say. and wat would be worse for a reciever.

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

Stand by mode. Just like a pc. Won't harm anything. Now your plasma and lcd tv, turn it off.

 

[MasterChief]

very true, i think he told me like a pc too but i couldnt remember. and also i wasnt sure how close a pc and a recievers is lol.

 

[fyrmedic01@hotm]

When you say turn Plasma off do you mean OFF or is standby ok.. I have a pioneer and when you hit off on the remote it puts it in standby I actually have to "push" the button to turn off the moniter, but there is no picture.

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

As long as your stand by mode isn't running "hot." If you leave for days at a time, turn it completely off.

 

[MasterChief]

Alrighty, well i dont leave it for days lol a couple of hours at the most. But i try to take care of my things ne way possible because it seems no matter wat my stuff gets broken. i have space in front and back. and like 7 inches of space on top lol that thing never gets hot. thanks for ur input

lol didnt see the question after mine

 

[anamorphic96]

I was told once that the heating up and cooling down is what causes problems over time in componets. Not sure if its true. Anyone care to chime in with more detail on the subject. It makes some sense considering the way things can break down over time such as glues.

I personally leave my stereo equipment on 24/7 unless I leave town.

 

[MasterChief]

exactly the person told me that. so i started thinking hmm should i leave my pc and stereo on longer cuz sometimes ill turn it on then i would leave for like 30 min or more so i would turn it off quickly. i kno the pc can handle it tho.

 

[markw]

Turn the stereo off when you're not using it.

It'll go into the standby mode where a push on the remote will wake it up. Heat is your stereo's bigggest enemy and, even with all that ventilation, it's still generating heat when it's on. Standby mode minimizes that.

If you're going away for a few days you might want to coinsider unplugging it though.

Computers are a different story. The hard disc ramping up and down is where the problem lies as wel las the heat but modern CPU's have more than adequate protection* there with convection stacks and fans to keep things workable.

*overclocking is a different story

 

[Audioholics]

There is a big difference between commercial products and consumer products. Consumer products need to be turned off (or put in standby mode) when not being used for a while. They are not meant to be run 24/7.

While turning electronics on/off does indeed technically produce more stress on the components, this is nothing compared to running the electronics all day/night for weeks/months on end without powering down when not in use. Much of this stufff gets hot and running them all the time is a great idea only if you want an excuse to buy new stuff sooner than you should have to.

So far I haven't seen any advice here I'd disagree with. I leave my PC on quite a bit more than any other components, but even it goes off if I perceive I'm going to be gone more than 8-12 hours.

 

[20to20K]

Heard the same throughout college

While getting my EE degree and learning about electronic components I recalled different professors stating that exciting and powering down electonic circuits (transistors, resistors, inductors, capacitors, etc) is ultimately what causes them to deteriate or burnout over time. Same holds true with light bulb filaments.

Every time you turn on and off a component that surge of electricity charges up the components and causes a huge temperature gradient...the same happens (although not as dramatically) when you power it down. Meanwhile keeping the juice flowing in a steady state is far less damaging. If you're not outputting anything to your speakers its probably not costing you that much electricity either.

On the other hand, with the sophisticated design of most of today's top electronics I think you'd be O.K. powering it down as well. I think if Denon and Yammie were really concerned about this they would recommend doing so (or even threaten to void you warrenty if they can prove you didn't!)

"Mr Smith...judging from the strong spring coefficient that still exists on your unit and remote "power-on" button and the age of this unit it appears that you were not powering the unit off after use! WARRANTY VOIDED!!!"

 

[MasterChief]

Ill let truth come out it was actually a teacher,I didnt know if that even sounded right tho.Well im taking a computer engineering major in high skool since i go to a technical high school. I do electronics and computers most of the day . I Think 20to20K is right. The thing for me was not leaving it on for days. but turning it on then changing my mind to go on to computer so i would turn it off then maybe in 30 min go back to the HT. So i guess if its not too long its okay to leave it on.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Alrighty, well i dont leave it for days lol a couple of hours at the most. But i try to take care of my things ne way possible because it seems no matter wat my stuff gets broken. i have space in front and back. and like 7 inches of space on top lol that thing never gets hot. thanks for ur input

lol didnt see the question after mine

A couple of hours should be fine if it is very cool when not performing. Otherwise turn it off. After all, modern components are robust.

 

[Dumb-rod]

I leave my computer on 24/7 365 days a year. I hate waiting for it to boot up! Plus I run a sort of tivo on my comp, so it's always recording and cutting commercials. Only prob I have is I seem to go through hard drives faster than a normal person would. I do have 400gb of external storage I shut off so they aren't always running.

I turn my reciever on in the morning if I use it, and will leave it on all day if I think I might be coming back. I'll shut everything down for night though. Never had a prob.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I leave my computer on 24/7 365 days a year. I hate waiting for it to boot up! Plus I run a sort of tivo on my comp, so it's always recording and cutting commercials. Only prob I have is I seem to go through hard drives faster than a normal person would. I do have 400gb of external storage I shut off so they aren't always running.

I turn my reciever on in the morning if I use it, and will leave it on all day if I think I might be coming back. I'll shut everything down for night though. Never had a prob.

You also use more electricity, much more
About 150watts /hr.

 

[mtrycrafts]

. Same holds true with light bulb filaments.

Yes, but. Always a but

When you leave a bulb on 24/7, it has a fixed hours of lifespan, statistical of course.
If you shut it off for half of the day, now you get twice as many days out of it even though you will get a small percentage decrease in hours of operation due to that switching.
You can run this out to many on off switching cycles and be ahead in days of operation when it needs replacing verses 24/7 operation.