{"id":4395,"date":"2016-02-23T08:24:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solartechnology.com\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T13:29:32","slug":"advice-from-the-support-gurus-when-to-blank-when-to-turn-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/2016\/02\/advice-from-the-support-gurus-when-to-blank-when-to-turn-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice from the Support Gurus: When to Blank. When to Turn Off."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m not sayin’ nothing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NOT talking about the vacant stare that comes from listening to something boring, or flipping a light switch. SolarTech\u2019s Support Team wants to remind you that it is better to BLANK your message board than to turn it off. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n

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  1. If you blank the screen, you can still connect to the board remotely. Turned off, it\u2019s dead to the world and needs someone to physically go to the board to turn it on.<\/li>\n
  2. If you blank the screen, you can still get a GPS read on the sign\u2019s location. Useful for possible theft prevention, and just to know where it is.<\/li>\n
  3. Faster re-activation. If you turn the sign off, you\u2019ll need to wait for it to bootup to be up and running.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Blanking the sign will NOT use a lot of energy. Blanking the sign turns off the power to the sign and allows the controller to \u201cgo to sleep\u201d\u2026using about 3 watts of power. The benefit of being able to \u201cwake\u201d the sign, access it remotely and know its location is well worth the easily-recouped 3 watts.<\/p>\n

    DO turn off the sign when changing batteries!<\/p>\n

    Sign expert John Stout gave us this advice. For more sage advice from our support gurus, read our older blogs or call our team\u00a0at 800-475-5442. They\u2019re here to help you get the most out of your SolarTech message boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    NOT talking about the vacant stare that comes from listening to something boring, or flipping a light switch. SolarTech\u2019s Support Team wants to remind you that it is better to BLANK your message board than to turn it off. Here\u2019s why: If you blank the screen, you can still connect to the board remotely. Turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_swt_meta_header_display":false,"_swt_meta_footer_display":false,"_swt_meta_site_title_display":false,"_swt_meta_sticky_header":false,"_swt_meta_transparent_header":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62,30,61],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-news","tag-john-stout","tag-message-boards","tag-save-energy"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Heidi","author_link":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/author\/solar-technology-2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"NOT talking about the vacant stare that comes from listening to something boring, or flipping a light switch. SolarTech\u2019s Support Team wants to remind you that it is better to BLANK your message board than to turn it off. Here\u2019s why: If you blank the screen, you can still connect to the board remotely. Turned…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}