Well I've made some progress and had a pretty big setback ...
First off, the cab is done barring the circles on the sides. I have been going back and forth on how I am going to approach these, but I will get to that in a moment.
First I got to wiring the power to the cab. I found a belkin smartstrip which is really cool. As most on the boards know it has 1 master outlet on it and several slaves that will turn on once the master draws a current. So, hook the computer up to it, then the rest of your devices and when the computer is powered on, whala! All of the other devices come on. Pretty slick. So I cut the end of the plug off, and went in search of a outlet that I could wire it to. I almost used one from a computer power supply, but to be safe and avoid fires, I picked this one up for $7 that was rated for 15a, the same as the power strip.
Soldered up the lines from the powerstrip to it along with a heatshrink wrap to keep accidents from happening, cut a hole and screwed it in.
It worked out well and I like having a nice clean plugable outlet on the back. Slick.
Then added holes USB ports to the front of the box for lightguns and other hookups when needed:
Of course I still have corners to detail, so disregard the sloppy lines. I am also going to paint that area with a roller to give it the same texture as whats around it. It is smooth now because of the sanding.
Found a good spraypaint at HomeDepot that matches the green tmolding for things like the fan guards.
Here it is incase anyone is trying to find some spraypaint that matches. It's pretty darn close.
Then got to working on wiring up the control panel
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Ive got almost everything but the LED's wired up. I am waiting on some little connecters to come in the mail so I can wire those to the little PACLED board. That has been a little bit more complicated than it would appear from the beginning and paying $12 a harness for 4 harnesses to wire up one pacled is a little pricey, so I will do it myself when they come in.
Ive also been working on shielding parts of the cabinet from the bass vibrations that will be coming from the bass speaker. I will hit that stuff in another post when it is done. Should be within the next few days.
Lastly I mounted the control panel. I got some bolts, nuts, washers and wing nuts. Drilled a hole small for the bolt in the cabinet, and a hole big enough for the nut in the bottom of the control panel. This way, I could put the bolt in from the bottom of the board in the cabinet under the control panel, secure it with a bolt, lay the control panel on top of that and put a wingnut inside the control panel to hold it down. All with washers in between. It worked out really well and things are nice and secure.
... Abd inside the control panel:
Which leads me to the big bummer. I finally plugged in my 29" Makvision SVGA monitor, and it doesnt work. I had been putting it off because I didnt want to run any electricity to it until the end as I would be working around it and didnt want to have all that stored charge just waiting for me to accidentally touch it. So when I hooked it up yesterday it locked up my computer before it could get to the windows boot screen. I can't even get into safe mode with it attached! I get a disconnected message on the screen whether it is plugged into this computer or my other laptop. No bueno. I have contacted Craig at xgaming.com, but have not heard back from him. My guess is that this one is going to get a little sticky because of the shipping charges involved, but we will see what he comes back with. I will let everyone know how they handle it incase someone else is thinking about picking up a monitor from them.