sicetaitsimple wrote:Question to the electronics specialists, which I am absolutely not: daily switching on/off a bit bestial of electronic devices (on/off on a multiple socket), won't that reduce their lifespan?
Edit: about fifteen years ago at work, the instruction for fixed PCs was to turn off the screen in the evening but to leave the PC on. The official explanation was this, risk of premature breakdown linked to daily on/off.
Bizarre your instructions not to turn off the PCs at work. I know of a large high-tech company where this has never been requested (and today, energy savings require, the opposite is required).
It is not likely to reduce their lifespan, but the cut-off device must be a "real" one, that is to say cut or restore the current frankly, in short a switch worthy of the name, like that of the PC . Unplugging the plug of a device is for example a bad idea, the microcuts at the time of disconnection can induce overvoltages in the inductors or transformers, and there, damage components.
The only risk of no power is on certain components such as chemical capacitors, but it takes years of no power before they degrade. In the general case, turn off the electronics when you no longer need them.
