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Should I power on games/boards to prolong their life?
No doubt this has been covered before but I searched and could not find a thread.
What I want to know is the best way to maximize the life of my games, their boards, capacitors, circuits and monitors.
Being an electronics noob (but learning) I have pondered is it better to power on games and leave them on for awhile every now and then? will this keep the capacitors in better condition? how often and for how long should I power them up? what components (if any) are effected by long unpowered storage?
I want to make a schedule to power games up to maximize their life as I have just installed a JROK board in my Defender and I don't want to leave the original boards sitting un powered for too long if that is bad for them. Also I'm so busy with this game and a Pinbot pinball I recently bought that my Asteroids cab has been neglected, I'm thinking I need a power on schedule for that also maybe?
No doubt this has been covered before but I searched and could not find a thread.
What I want to know is the best way to maximize the life of my games, their boards, capacitors, circuits and monitors.
Being an electronics noob (but learning) I have pondered is it better to power on games and leave them on for awhile every now and then? will this keep the capacitors in better condition? how often and for how long should I power them up? what components (if any) are effected by long unpowered storage?
I want to make a schedule to power games up to maximize their life as I have just installed a JROK board in my Defender and I don't want to leave the original boards sitting un powered for too long if that is bad for them. Also I'm so busy with this game and a Pinbot pinball I recently bought that my Asteroids cab has been neglected, I'm thinking I need a power on schedule for that also maybe?

