I Leave my receiver on ALL THE TIME!!

[therockman]

I have a Sony STR-DE895 which is about 1 year old and I leave this baby on all the time. I have had no issues with doing this (i.e. overheating), it is just something that I have always done with my amplifiers in the past. Does anybody else leave their electronics on all the time?
Rocky Bennett

[Tour2ma]

Excepting vacations and electrical storms .. yup. My 18 year-old Carver M-1.5t was "on" for probably 17 years before I "retired" it from active duty.

Actually the Sunfires have a sleep/ standby mode that I use, but it keeps the bits that need to be kept "hot", hot.

[POLKOHOLIC]

Windows XP Uptime: 29 Days 13 Hours 12 Minutes 5 Seconds.

Sometimes the f^ck3r Crashes Then Uptime Resets :(

[pixiedave]

last pid: 1299; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 231+12:29:20 12:43:02
41 processes: 1 running, 40 sleeping
CPU states: 0.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.4% interrupt, 99.4% idle
Mem: 67M Active, 116M Inact, 50M Wired, 24K Cache, 61M Buf, 267M Free
Swap: 1008M Total, 1008M Free

You gotta love FreeBSD, up 7 months no reboot.

My second room amp wich gets an output from my first room is always on, I shut of my main room HT at night.

[dorokusai]

I turn my stereo gear off, simply out of habit. I run the computer quite a bit, but also turn it off now and then. No real purpose behind doing it at all I guess.

[PolkThug]

I turn off my stereo and computer stuff every day. I don't see any point in paying for electricity I'm not using while I'm sleeping. The surge protector does seem to stay in some kind of stand by mode though.

Regards,
PolkThug

[faster100]

same here, Ive got wireless also so no need letting people try and hack my connection or pc, receiver and gear gets shuts down nightly, unless you have tubes which they say takes more life starting up then just leaving on, I say pull the switch

[phoneisbusy]

Always been curious as to how significant the electrical bill would be to leave a receiver or amp on. I think a class A type amp would consume close to its rated wattage regardless of whether a signal is present. I think it's different for most other receivers and amps as they are a different class or a hybrid of the two?

Does anyone have any insight on this?

regards

Dave

[therockman]

I don't really know too much about the demands on the electric bill; between the central air, the washer & dryer, the electric irrigation pump and all of the other electrical devices, it is just a drop in the bucket. But who cares, at $.045 a kwh, the eletric bill very rarely climbs over $30 or $40 a month.

[Ron-P]

Everything is completley shut down or in stand-by mode. No need to leave it on all the time.


Peace Out~:D

[madmax]

Class A uses full power all the time. AB only uses minimal current when not in use.

On the computer stuff, I leave it on all the time. Failure comes from everything changing shape when it heats up and cools down, not to mention surge voltages. Keep this in mind: when you shut it down everything that is hot IS HOT and when you turn the fan off... it all gets REALLY hot before cooling down.

madmax

[PolkWannabie]

A/V Equipment ... off the juice when not in use ...

PC related stuff ... Always on except when away for extended periods of time or when very rough storms are expected ... which is almost never.

[HBombToo]

I'm with Tour on this 1.

HBomb

[therockman]

I want to be with tour on this one, but I can't remember what he said.

Rocky Bennett

[therockman]

I just did a little math regarding the price to keep the reciever on all the time. On.but at idle, it consumes approx. 30 watts, off it consumes 1 watt.

30watts X 24 hours= .720kwh per day

.720 kwh X $.045 @kwh= $.0324 a day

$.0324 X 30= $.97 a month.

I think that I can afford 97 cents a month.

Rocky Bennett

[Willow]

I always turn my gear off but my bro in law an electrician says most gear uses the same power off then on, well def for tvs to keep the tube warm so it doesnt have to heat up every time. but for receivers...hmm I've read both some peeps keep it on and some like me turn it off, there is a reason for the power button....

[PolkThug]

Originally posted by madmax
On the computer stuff, I leave it on all the time. Failure comes from everything changing shape when it heats up and cools down, not to mention surge voltages. Keep this in mind: when you shut it down everything that is hot IS HOT and when you turn the fan off... it all gets REALLY hot before cooling down.

madmax

That's an awesome point max. I think I'll make a cpu fan with a small rechargeable battery. When the current is shutoff from the fan, the battery will kick in for about 2-3 minutes to allow the cpu to cool. Then I will mass produce these and distribute through newegg.com. Thanks for the inspiration, don't worry, after I go platinum I will send you a "ThugFan" t-shirt.

All kidding aside, has anyone invented this for PC's yet? Seems like they would sell (at least to all of us pc building geeks).

Regards,
PolkThug