Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!eagle!jtreworgy
From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A500 power supply (how good is it?)
Message-ID: <435@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 9 Aug 89 11:16:39 GMT
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In article <1400@bnr-fos.UUCP>, protcoop@leibniz.uucp writes:
> 
> Hi.  I recently upgraded from an A1000 to an A500 (yes, I do consider it
> to be an upgrade :-).

Hmmph! You've fallen by the wayside with that Atari-ST lookalike. :-)

> I was wondering how long I could safely leave my
> 500 powered up?  I remember that at one time I left my 1000 on for 4
> months straight (not the monitor though) and it didn't hurt it a bit.  I
> realized that this would probably blow up my 500 so I want to know what
> the safe limits are.  Also, how could I expand these limits?  Would the
> main problem be with the power supply over-heating, or the computer
> itself?  Would rigging a fan up to either/both do me any good?

Leaving it on shouldn't tax the power supply... if something is going to kill
it, it's going to kill it within a couple hours of turning it on. (This would
happen if you tried to draw too much power, i.e. you hooked up a second disk
drive. :-)). Some people say that it's actually better for the machine to leave
it on all the time (i.e. less wear & tear on the circuitry from turning on &
off). This is nice if you have clean power. We have blackouts & spikes all the
time so I prefer to leave my machine off when I'm not using it.

-- 
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