> That's true, the power on surges are pretty stressful. I was thinking about > the heat build up from leaving it on 24/7. I suppose you could leave it on > all night (like Brian stated with the contrast cranked) and then power cycle > it a few times a day.
Let some time pass during the off-state of the power cycle. The biggest current surge on power-up is the degaussing coil. Most degaussing coils are wired in series with a PTC thermistor. This allows big current to flow through the coil until the PTC self-heats and exhibits a higher resistance. My Dell monitor (a.k.a. Sony circa 1996) dims the lights in my office and makes a buzzing sound when I turn it on after a cold night. I'm in Florida, so I don't heat my office at night. But, 7+ years of great usage and still going - I wish PCs would last that long before going obsolete! BTW, PCs in my office are like immortal rabbits - they keep multiplying and they never die! I've only ever retired 3 PCs - my first PC (a 286), a Frankenstein PC, and a lemon Compaq PII. The 286 is still in my junk pile, and it still works. Frankie was retired earlier this year when he couldn't accept a RAM upgrade without exhibiting memory errors. The Compaq was scrapped and salvaged for the only component in it that ever worked right - the sheet metal. Uh-oh, nostalgia trip coming on (muST FIGHT IT, ARrrghh, can't help it, giving in...) - Ironically, the only thing I couldn't do with that old 286 that I can do nowadays, is surf the Internet and play MP3 files. Back in 286 days, I could do Quattro Pro speadsheets, Pspice simulation, Orcad and PADS designs, upload Gerbers via modem, Wordperfect, write C programs (Borland C), do embedded development (68HC05 and x86), etc. Do I want to go back to those days? No, but I do look upon them with some sense of awe that so much could be done with so little. Whereas the tech focus today seems to be to do less with more. Personally, I feel that the computer software market is eventually going to have to get back to what worked in the mid-late 80's and early 90's - nearly bug-free, shrink-wrapped software, with good printed manuals, for a low price. Free software is great but won't work as a sustainable business model, and mega-expensive software and/or services won't work for home and small businesses. $300 for XP Pro, $460 for Office XP Pro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux $730, that's expensive stuff. OS's should be $29 w/o manual, or $49 with printed manual. Office suites should be priced similarly. Software piracy would drop to almost zero, because having the printed manual is a good incentive not to pirate. Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Karavidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Protel EDA Forum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 2:16 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT: Low price on 21" monitors > That's true, the power on surges are pretty stressful. I was thinking about > the heat build up from leaving it on 24/7. I suppose you could leave it on > all night (like Brian stated with the contrast cranked) and then power cycle > it a few times a day. > > Anyway, it's a good deal. I've been buying (other things) from local > auctions and this is a lot cheaper. > > Tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: Darren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 5:14 PM > To: 'Protel EDA Forum' > Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT: Low price on 21" monitors > > > Hi Tony, > > Leaving it on is being nice, let get hot and cold, every day.. > > Darren Moore > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > I've been buying a few things from this vendor, so now I'm on the > > sucker list. (they are legit, I opt-in on this one. I recently > > purchased a NEW 160GB hard drive for my TIVO from them for $75!) > > > > Since Protel s/w is so much more usable on a big screen, I thought I'd > > share this current item. It's a refurbished HP 21" monitor for $80 > > with a 30 day warranty. (leave it on for the first 30 days!) > > > http://www.etech4sale.com/commerce/catalog/product.jsp;jsessionid=E97D67AB39 > 64BB93C884906370BE0F68?product_id=2078&czuid=1070409892153 > > > > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
