Comment on Turning gaming setups off and on
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Yes always turn off CRT’s when idle. They (typically) have no sleep mode like a LCD does, when they are on the tube is firing and all the capacitors are charged regardless of display input.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
But is the constant on and off bad?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
They will wear faster being on (accumulating capacitor and electron gun power-on hours) than they do turning on and off. They are not like a hard drive where there are mechanical components that wear faster during start and warmup, they are primarily solid state electronics that care only about power on hours.