Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: manli@cs.uh.edu (Man L. Li) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Sould the monitor be off? Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <573@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 26 Jul 89 21:55:26 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 14 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 86, message 12 of 18 We have a disagreement about whether to turn off the monitors for our Sun 3 workstations at night. Someone claims that this will prolong the life of the monitors becuase of the high voltage they use. My thinking is that since the system has the automatic blank-out feature, to turn them off and on will do more harm to the tube. To resolve this issue, we would like to hear some expert's opinion and experience. Sorry to bring up this old subject, but I forgot what was the verdict of the last discussion. Please share your opinion to this group or email to myself. Thank you. Man L. Li (manli@cs.uh.edu) Dept. of Computer Science University of Houston