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Wear and Tear of the on/off cycle...

I'm not by any means an electrical guru, but there are those here that are, so I'll ask the question: I know that during turn on/off the likelyhood of failure is greater... is this true of on/off from standby? I've often wondered if the environmental impact of producing replacement devices for devices broken during on/off was greater than the cost of just keeping things running...

Anyone know the answer to this one?

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