[R-390] On or off?

[John Lawson]

  My radios are off unless I'm in the shop/shack working, or actually using 
the gear.

  Generally I'll put the R-390 on Standby when I first power up the bench, 
then switch it on and off that way (keeping the fils lit) until the end of 
the day.  Same for the R-288/51J and the othe BA ham gear.  During the 
week if I don't have time to go out into the shack the radios are off.

   Years ago I had a Heath DX-100 woof up the Mod Xfrmr while I was out 
shopping - the fumes formed an 'inversion layer' in the apartment I had at 
the time, and actually made a brown 'ring' on the walls and drapes... 
took forever to get things clean and lacquer-stench-free again.  Pissed me 
off so much I gave the thing to the first person who would come and haul 
it off.


   As for wall-warts, I've known of more than one person who had major 
fires due to wall-warts failing, including one guy who lost a very 
valuable, and completely irreplaceable mini-computer collection when an 
Ethernet hub wallwart went up in his garge while no one was home...

   All mine, for the computer and comm stuff anyway, live in a steel box 
connected to a UPS - if one burns the damage will be confined to it.

   Cheers

John  KB6SCO