Hi If we are talking about 12 hours on / 12 hours off each day - leave it on, That one is a slam dunk. The cycling will kill stuff faster than any aging on the bulb (or whatever).
If you are are talking about running it once a month, then that’s a bit different. You will need to run if for more than 12 hours to get it fully stable. A lot depends on the characteristics of the unit you have. Three days or so is a pretty good run in number for an Rb. Nobody really knows how long these Telcom Rb’s will last. You see numbers ranging from 5 years to 25 years tossed around. Both sound a bit suspect to me. The surplus parts all have 5 years on them by now. Running anything as hot as an Rb does continuously for 25 years without failure seems a bit much as well. There’s sure to be a bunch of fine print on both of those numbers. Certainly there are examples of Rb’s that are > 25 years old that are working fine. I personally have killed a number of Rb’s in under 5 years (by abuse …). Your mileage will vary …. Bob > On Nov 7, 2014, at 4:48 PM, Richard Bown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > I've a LRPO-101, which is going to give a greater remaining life, leaving on > for a 12 hr period, or > switching on /off as required . ie is the ageing greater when warming up, or > constant ? > -- > -- > Best wishes /73 > Richard Bown > > Email : [email protected] > HTTP : http://www.g8jvm.com > nil carborundum a illegitemis > ################################################################################## > Ham Call: G8JVM . QRV: 50-432 MHz + Microwave 23 cms 140W, 13 cms 100W & 3cms > 5W > Maidenhead QRA: IO82SP38, LAT. 52 39.720' N LONG. 2 28.171 W > QRV VHF 6mtrs 200W, 4 mtrs 150W, 2mtrs 400W, 70cms 200W > OS: Linux Mint 17 x86_64 on a Dell Inspiron N5030 laptop > ################################################################################## > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
