[G4] Sleep or leave running?

[Doug Burton]

Bottom line is this.  Main cause of electronic component failure is  
heat.  Common sense would dictate that if the equipment is off, it  
ain't gettin' hot, unless of course there is a fire, but that is a  
problem for another thread or list.  The current surge experienced  
when equipment is turned on is a normal part of operation.  The  
equipment is designed to be turned off and on or they would not  
include a switch.  In my many years as an electronic technician, I've  
seen equipment fail that was on, off and even unplugged.  Nine times  
out of ten the failure was caused by heat.  The one thing that never  
changed was the customer's insistence that there couldn't be much  
wrong with it 'cause it worked fine yesterday.

Just a message from Doug...