It really depends on HOW that PC is used -- if it is all interactive, you can turn it on when needed, off when not needed. (makes the room a little cooler, saves a bit of energy). If the PC gives you a visula ALERT -- then you should leave it on, but turn it down. It reminds me of a server room at IBM where I used to work years ago -- I would have the system architect come in the room and turn off monitors for servers that "didn't do anything" since there was no point in wasting the monitors on machines that never showed anything anyway. This was soon followed a few weeks later by an engineer who walked into the room, said "maybe it's just me ...", turned on one of the monitors, "but I would want to leave the monitor ON for my domain controller so I would know when it crashed", and sure enough as the screen came on, there was the error message that no one saw ... had the monitor been on, we would have known sooner to reboot the server . . . "for the pennies in electricity it saves, it's not worth it to bring down a line that loses $50,000 an hour..." you could always tell which one visited the room by whether the monitors were on or off ... :) So the point is, if you would miss something IMPORTANT, then don't turn it off. Otherwise, turn it off . . . Dave Gianna, MS, CCSE, CCSI, NSA, ACE/ADM Technical Sales Engineer Security Technologies Group (914) 829-7351 Westcon, Inc. 520 White Plains Road Tarrytown, NY 10591 ==================================================== "Sing bird of prey, Beauty begins at the foot of you Do you believe the manner? Cold stainless nail, Torn through the distance of man As they regard the summit ..." -- Jon Anderson/Yes ==================================================== |--------+-----------------------> | | Douglas | | | Butler | | | | | | | | | 08/09/01 | | | 12:17 PM | | | Please | | | respond to | | | pic | | | microcontroll| | | er discussion| | | list | | | | |--------+-----------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU | | cc: (bcc: David Gianna/Westchester/Westcon/US/WestconGroup) | | Subject: Re: [EE]:Monitor Life | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| I would turn down the brightness and adjust contrast as required. My PC at work I only turn off for weekends, unless there is stormy weather and we might lose power in which case I turn it off overnight. Sherpa Doug > -----Original Message----- > From: robertf [mailto:robertf@MICROBALANCE.COM] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:51 AM > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: [EE]:Monitor Life > > > Hello, > > I have a pc that is always > running but not viewed all the > time except for about once to > several time a day depending > on the activity. Is it better > to turn it on/off or lower the > brightness and the contrast? > Other sugestions? > I use DMPS on one and because > the other two is older( not > dmps capable), I turn them > down. > > Regards, > > Robert Francisco > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu