Do you leave your reciever on once you turn it on

[Canada]

Do you leave your reciever on once you turn it on? If I am home and think I will use my receiver again shortly I won't turn it off because I heard from friends of my patrents that bought a new receiver that turning electronics on and off all the time are very hard on the equipment.

[Fors*]

Originally Posted by Canada

Do you leave your reciever on once you turn it on? If I am home and think I will use my receiver again shortly I won't turn it off because I heard from friends of my patrents that bought a new receiver that turning electronics on and off all the time are very hard on the equipment.

I have to say I turn mine off, but only because of the macro I have set-up in my Harmony remote. It is set to turn on everthing I need with a single button and turn everything off with a single button, so I like the convenience of my 880.....call me lazy I guess...

[ZIPPO]

I leave in stand-by mode.

[solarrdadd]

If that were true, then there would be a "turn on & stay on" switch on the equipment; don't ya think? all equipment is designed to have an estimated MTBF rate (Mean Time Before Failure) which means the switch you press to turn it on, under lab conditions will allow for say 10k turn ons and offs before it fails. the same is true for your recevier and anything else. it has an estimated time of "starts and stops" before it fails; on an individual component level interior and exterior for the receiver or device.

Now, is it good to turn on & off anything repeatedly, i.e. on, off, on, off, on, off...the answer is no as there may be surges invoved with doing that or depending on how your equipment works it may not be good for it. like with a RPTV you can't turn it off and turn it right back on; it has to go through a fan cooling cycle before restarting again.

Read the literature that comes with this type of equipment and it will tell you the do's and don'ts of that equipment.

hope this helps

[ZIPPO]

Originally Posted by forsberg21

I have to say I turn mine off, but only because of the macro I have set-up in my Harmony remote. It is set to turn on everthing I need with a single button and turn everything off with a single button, so I like the convenience of my 880.....call me lazy I guess...

I've got the same scenario with my system using a Harmony remote. Harmony remote puts receiver in standby mode.

[solarrdadd]

I don't think they are asking about the harmony one putting it into standby, i think they are just asking about the unit being put into standby or turned off and then being taken out of standby or turned on a lot. now the question is what is a lot? for example, when i come home during the week, i'll turn my tv on that evening and it will stay on until i'm ready to go to bed or if i'm really finished using it for the night (not going to bed).

on the weekend, i tend to turn on my stuff to watch a little tv or watch a movie then turn it off (standby) i may turn it back on later that afternoon and then off again an hour or two later. i will turn it on again during or after dinner then turn it off again before bed.

I think that is the kind of "turning it off" the poster was talking about...of course, I could be wrong about that too!

[Fors*]

Originally Posted by ZIPPO

I've got the same scenario with my system using a Harmony remote. Harmony remote puts receiver in standby mode.

Maybe some clarification of what stand-by is would help to clarify?

[Histep]

I don't think it really hurts it to leave it on . Notice in the stores that it is all usually all left on, sometimes with no speakers connected. What really kills it are power outages.
HERB

[solarrdadd]

standby is the condition your receiver or other remote controled equpment goes into when you press either the power button on the remote or press the power/standby button on the device itself. it will power off down to a minimum of power usage waiting for you to press the power button on the remote or the power/standby button on the physical unit.

anything controlled by a remote that can be started up by pressing the power button on said remote goes into a standby mode so that it can respond to the commands of said remote and "wake up" or stop "standing by" and do what the remote asked it to do.

a true "turnn" off of equipment would render the remote useless because there is no power the circuit that the infra-red or bluetooth communicates so the device would never know it's being asked to do something; that's why we leave stuff in "standby"

hope that helps.

[Steve]

I don't leave mine on. Like others have stated, my Harmony One shuts everything off when I push the power off button.

[solarrdadd]

Originally Posted by Histep

I don't think it really hurts it to leave it on . Notice in the stores that it is all usually all left on, sometimes with no speakers connected. What really kills it are power outages.
HERB

leaving the equipment on does not harm it; if that is the case with any equpment it will state so in the manual and in most cases equipment like that would have automatic controls built into it to power it off if leaving it on is dangerous to the equpment, or to people.

power outages don't necessarily harm equipment. Power surges and brown-outs do harm equipment.

[Maswov]

Solarrdadd, that is true the equipment will eventually fail in time. Poor quality components typically will not last as long as higher quality counterparts. Everytime electronic equipment is turned on it has the potential to fail due to a spike in power, it is rare but it is possible. i have noticed that more equipment failures occur while energizing the gear rather than during normal operation.
Heat is also an enemy of electronics, therefore if left on the heat generated slowly degrades the components shortening their life. As was stated above using standby mode is a good option.

[solarrdadd]

even with a harmony remote you can turn on and off individual components if you needed or wanted to. for example, i'll have my system set to play my PS3but i will also want to peak at a football game that is on cable so, instead of turning off the ps3 to switch with the harmony macro's i individually turn on the cable box, turn it to the channel i want, select my receiver and switch the input between the ps3 and the cable box to do that.

we don't have to turn just use the macro's you can manipulate it in other ways.

[Fors*]

Originally Posted by solarrdadd

standby is the condition your receiver or other remote controled equpment goes into when you press either the power button on the remote or press the power/standby button on the device itself. it will power off down to a minimum of power usage waiting for you to press the power button on the remote or the power/standby button on the physical unit.

anything controlled by a remote that can be started up by pressing the power button on said remote goes into a standby mode so that it can respond to the commands of said remote and "wake up" or stop "standing by" and do what the remote asked it to do.

a true "turnn" off of equipment would render the remote useless because there is no power the circuit that the infra-red or bluetooth communicates so the device would never know it's being asked to do something; that's why we leave stuff in "standby"

hope that helps.

Then mine is in stand-by, as according to what you state. It always responds to my power on/off command on my Harmony 880...never knew that stood for "stand-by". Thanks solarrdadd!

[ZIPPO]

Originally Posted by solarrdadd

standby is the condition your receiver or other remote controled equpment goes into when you press either the power button on the remote or press the power/standby button on the device itself. it will power off down to a minimum of power usage waiting for you to press the power button on the remote or the power/standby button on the physical unit.

anything controlled by a remote that can be started up by pressing the power button on said remote goes into a standby mode so that it can respond to the commands of said remote and "wake up" or stop "standing by" and do what the remote asked it to do.

a true "turnn" off of equipment would render the remote useless because there is no power the circuit that the infra-red or bluetooth communicates so the device would never know it's being asked to do something; that's why we leave stuff in "standby"

hope that helps.

Excellent explanation!

[solarrdadd]

Originally Posted by Maswov

Solarrdadd, that is true the equipment will eventually fail in time. Poor quality components typically will not last as long as higher quality counterparts. Everytime electronic equipment is turned on it has the potential to fail due to a spike in power, it is rare but it is possible. i have noticed that more equipment failures occur while energizing the gear rather than during normal operation.
Heat is also an enemy of electronics, therefore if left on the heat generated slowly degrades the components shortening their life. As was stated above using standby mode is a good option.

to get a UL listing and rating for a light bulb it is tested under lab conditions to state say the following 10k hour rating at 5hrs per day continously at the nominal voltage at a given room temperature. that means if you could simulate the lab conditions for it's life, that bulb should last 10k hours--well we dont' live in a lab so in most cases if you can get 7 - 10k hours out of that bulb you did great. will you hurt the lamp if you leave it on, no, will you potentially shorten the expected life of the lamp by leaving it on no, you will only get to the potential rating (10k hrs) faster than if you left it on for 5hrs per day.

mind you if you had your equipment in an place that the temperature or humidity was beyond what the equpment asked for then yes, you could endanger the equipment to an early failure. the equipment was designed to function with the temperature it generates, if not it would always fail. with that said it must be operated within the ambient temperature it states it needs to be in. most of the time we stack equipment too close on top of or next to each other despite the fact that it says "leave 6" on top, 2" behind and 2" on each side of this equpment for cooling"

not having the proper voltage or poor quality voltage can cause the equipment to run hotter that it should now, that temperature will damage the equpment and cause it to fail before it's time. that is why i on many a power quality post have recommended having either a line conditioner or a UPS for this sensitive electronics type of equipment to automatically regulate the voltage (AVR) and to protect from surges (spikes) and sags (brown-outs)

good clean power, proper ambient temperatures and placement of your equipment will help it last longer, by design and otherwise.

hope this helps

[Canada]

My parents have my first receiver ever a Panasonic they have it in a home entertainment center where it gets zip for air. I swear you can fry an egg on top of the bloody thing, now that is how you wreck your electronics really fast.

[tntkain]

The only time we turn ours off is if we are moving furniture or hooking something new up. We listen to music or the radio 24/7 when not watching movies

[dolphinc]

I really never understood why people leave any type of euipment on when not in use. If I know I will be back shortly then I leave it on but otherwise turn it off, same some electric and wear on the unit.

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[Blu-Raider]

For the vast majority of newer reveivers, "off" isn't really "off" (unless there's a "stand-by" mode as well). The chassis always stays hot.