I accidentally left my 7800 on for last 24 hours

[kyle]

Seems fine but should I be worried?

[Keatah]

I thought the title of this thread was gonna be, "I accidentally left my 7800 out in the rain."

 

Seriously, these are solid state computer components. No harm done.

[Austin]

should I be worried?

 

Probably not.

[CPUWIZ]

I have a habit of doing it, I often don't turn on the TV, when I am working on projects that suck 5V from the joystick port. I just did it 2 days ago and have probably done it to this board about 50 times over the years. The worst that could happen is that you find it not working, because the 7805 burned out, but that hasn't happened yet.

[gilsaluki]

I was in the Air Force, deployed to Panama for 90 days. My wife and young daughter(at the time) turned on my Atari 800xl and left it on for three months. I still use that 800xl. So, 24 hours, will not kill a 7800. I have left my Junior on for weeks, by accident, and no harm, no fowl. Don't worry, be happy (then buy a back up 7800, cause THEY AIN'T MAKIN' them suckers any longer).

[Rick Dangerous]

I used to leave my NES on for days. I think the old systems LIKE it

[Armonigann]

Lol...! They love it...

[Jinks]

That is how you saved your high scores for friends to see BITD. No biggie.

I left mine on for a month last year. Nothing bad happened..

[SIO2]

It seems like Atari used to put something in their manuals about this system will bring you years of enjoyment. They didn't lie. Running for a day is nothing as long as it wasn't super hot in the room.

[Stun Runner 87]

My 7800 has been turned on since 1986.

😬

[DracIsBack]

They used to leave them running all the time in stores in order to sell the system. Perspective

[S1500]

My friend left a soldering iron on for a whole weekend trip. Thankfully, the house didn't burn down. Since then, he has a turn-dial timer that auto shuts-off on said iron now. Won't stay on for more than an hour.

[Clint Thompson]

Any electronic component worth its salt should be able to run non-stop for an extended period of time without any mishap. To think that we tend to have most computer systems running 24/7, I think the longest I've seen one going uninterrupted where I work is about 163 days.

[Rhomaios]

I thought the title of this thread was gonna be, "I accidentally left my 7800 out in the rain."

 

Seriously, these are solid state computer components. No harm done.

 

 

He wouldn't have done that. Someone else would have. Someone left his Atari out in the rain, and he doesn't think that it can take, though it takes so long to bake it (i.e. its board).

[+FujiSkunk]

Any electronic component worth its salt should be able to run non-stop for an extended period of time without any mishap...

 

...except a Commodore 1541 disk drive.

[nanochess]

 

...except a Commodore 1541 disk drive.

 

Or an old Intellivision, I've heard of lot of these burnt out after playing just too much.

[7800fan]

 

Or an old Intellivision, I've heard of lot of these burnt out after playing just too much.

 

Because of odd design. For some reason the engineers at R&D choose to put the power switch *after* the transformer so the transformer is always running, always leeching power, and always warm. Putting the power switch on the main side would have helped some.

 

That still leaves the chip creep. No matter how much glue they used, the chip will creep out of the sockets. And those chips do run warmer than the chips in 2600. Maybe because Intellivision runs on 56 different voltage as opposed to a single 5v that most game console uses.