Is turning off electronics at the wall outlet bad

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I have a few monitors and an AV receiver. When I leave my workstation, I often want to turn these off. It's tedious hitting 4 buttons and afterwards unplugging my main screen — the power adapter makes a high pitch noise when the monitor is off but still plugged in.

I have considered connected it all to an outlet box and adding a switch, so I can turn it all off with one button.

Is it bad for electronics like these to be turned off at the outlet without pressing the "off" button first?

Note that I don't intend to turn off my computer on the outlet.

Update: I updated the Samsung Customer Service and I was told that cutting the power without using the actual power button is completely fine. If this applies to other brands, I have no idea.

Best Answer

I think it is probably useful to understand how and why a controlled shutdown and startup helps. With computers, a proper shut down lets it flush out whatever's on the disk. With most other devices, the idea is to try to avoid inrush current damaging the device as power flows into a newly connected circuit.

If a device is sensitive to such things its probably designed to handle it to an extent, and if you switch off things properly (first the device, through whichever proper method suggested by the manufacturer, then the power supply, and switch things on in the reverse order), things should be fine. Yes, its more work, but its the best way to avoid damage

I would however change that power adaptor. High pitched noises indicate a fault somewhere, possibly a VRM whem its not under load. This might be a bad thing.

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