BlueBird 2 if I must leave it On all the time or can be shutdown

[icemansin]

Hi,


Rookie question, Do I need to let my WMS BB2 On at all time, or he can be shutdown like during the night? I heard about battery and they are built to keep them On but Im wondering cause the fan make quite a noise when you dont play


Thanks everyone!

[erbs]

You do not need to leave it on all the time. If one of your fans is making noise you need to find out witch one and replace it.

[icemansin]

Thanks! Cool! The sound fan that I talk about its like when you boot a server and the fan spin like crazy and then stop, but the fan looks like they stay on high spin..maybe its normal ... Im wondering if they suppose to go down a bit..

[rickhunter]

The case fans are not thermally controlled, they spin at the same rate all the time.  The fans on the cpu are speed controlled.  These machines are meant to be on 24 hours a day, that's why they have aggressive thermal management.   You can power down the machine at night.  I only power mine up when I play them and leave them on for a few hours.  The issue with keeping it off for too long, is that it will drain the nvram battery and when that happens you have to clear and setup the game again as you change the batteries.  Lucky for you the bb2 batteries seem to drain slowly over time.  I've had mpu's stored away for a couple of years and the batteries are still good.  Now I do the sensible thing, I remove the batteries on my spare mpu's.

[icemansin]

Thanks a lot Rick!!Nice to know those thing now, since I just got mine! I appreciated your help Thanks!