Does it "hurt" the timecapsule if i cut the power every night?

i use my timecapsule as a wlan rooter and do not want to have the wlan active over night. since there is no on/off i simply cut the power in the evening. do you think this will hurt the timecapsule over a longer period?
thanks

+1 ^^^
Wireless does not continuously transmit.. when you don't actually pass packets over wireless, the signal is just a short poll, every few seconds.. a burst to tell wireless devices I am here. The actual level of signal is extremely low..
If you are concerned about security.. WPA2 Personal with 20 character key.. full combo of upper, lower and digit alphanumeric.. will not be broken.
If you are concerned for safety.. the power rf output of the dect phone is 10x greater than wifi. The radio and communications signals in your house from mobile phone towers for instance could be greater.
If you are concerned for power and environment.. the actual standby power demand of the TC is around 8W. The problem is shutting it down every night produces expansion and contraction issues. Replacement of the TC faster than normal counteracts any benefit gained for power saved. But that is the point we don't know.. will it break or how fast. Hard to know.

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