Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) (03/14/89)
"I have heard rumors that leaving your monitor on when it is not connected
to the Atari may cause problems. Does anyone have any information about
this? I use Monitor Master and as I switch back and forth, I am not
turning my monitors on and off."
It is not good to leave ANY monitor running when it doesn't have a
load, that is, signal feeding into it. The horizontal oscillator, so I'm
told, doesn't have anything to lock onto. TV studios, if leaving a monitor
on without a 'picture', will feed what they call is SIGNAL BLACK to keep
the monitor stable.
Instead of using Practical Solutions' Monitor Master, I'd recommend
Astra's monitor switcher when trying to solve this problem. It is really
a superior product, from my point of view as a user only, in that it kills
power to the unused monitor. It also gives you the option to turn power off
to a monitor via a switch, to tap into the audio, and to kill power to the
audio for the monitor for routing to a stereo.
Switching from one monitor to another is easy enough with a switch
and the un-used monitor will be denied power.
Larry Rymal <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>