Turning off monitors

[adam at ste.dyn.bae.co.uk]

In article <1741 at brchh104.bnr.ca> boyland at sequoia.Berkeley.EDU (John B. Boyland) writes:

>The Sparc manuals say that the monitor should be turned on before the
>system unit is turned on and turned off after the system unit is turned
>off.

Turning any electrical equipment (eg monitors) on or off causes electrical
spikes, which can harm the delicate innards of other electrical equipment
(eg SPARCstations). To cut your losses, you should turn things on cheapest
-> expensivest, and off expensivest -> cheapest.

Using a power drill from the same socket as your SPARC is not a good idea
either :)

That said, we turn the monitors off overnight with no ill effects, but I
guess if we broke anything, Sun would just point at the manuals and laugh.

Adam