I Leave my receiver on ALL THE TIME!!

therockman
therockman Posts: 349
edited March 2004 in Electronics
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
Rocky Bennett
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    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.
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • POLKOHOLIC
    POLKOHOLIC Posts: 407
    edited March 2004
    Windows XP Uptime: 29 Days 13 Hours 12 Minutes 5 Seconds.

    Sometimes the f^ck3r Crashes Then Uptime Resets :(
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  • pixiedave
    pixiedave Posts: 227
    edited March 2004
    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.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited March 2004
    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.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited March 2004
    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
    Never Forget
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited March 2004
    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
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • phoneisbusy
    phoneisbusy Posts: 867
    edited March 2004
    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
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  • therockman
    therockman Posts: 349
    edited March 2004
    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.
    Rocky Bennett
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited March 2004
    Everything is completley shut down or in stand-by mode. No need to leave it on all the time.


    Peace Out~:D
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited March 2004
    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
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited March 2004
    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.
    Rick
    HT+ Sunfire TG IV, Dual CG Sig II's, CinePro 1K2, Oppo 981, Audio Technica PL120, Polk SRT's & F/X1000's, Samsung 71" DLP
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited March 2004
    I'm with Tour on this 1.

    HBomb
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  • therockman
    therockman Posts: 349
    edited March 2004
    I want to be with tour on this one, but I can't remember what he said.

    Rocky Bennett
    Rocky Bennett
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  • therockman
    therockman Posts: 349
    edited March 2004
    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
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,060
    edited March 2004
    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....
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited March 2004
    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
    Never Forget
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