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CWorley

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Power Button LED
« on: April 18, 2012, 08:57:37 am »
Hey Guys,

I'm using an led pushbutton to power on the pc in my cab from the outside.  Can I use the power sw header cable to power the led (using a Paradise Arcade ezswitch)? Or the pwr led header?  Or should I power it straight from the power supply?

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Re: Power Button LED
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2012, 09:13:38 am »
I use the header on the mobo to for my power LED and hard drive activity LED...

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Re: Power Button LED
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2012, 09:22:53 am »
I use the header on the mobo to for my power LED and hard drive activity LED...

Right, anyone would when using a regular pc case.

I'm using a pushbutton like this (http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/led-chrome-pushbuttons/35-led-pushbutton-with-bw-insert.html) to power on my pc from the outside of my cocktail cabinet.

For just the button to work, I'll use the power switch header from the mobo to the pushbutton (cutting off the old switch and extending the wires).  My question is can I use any of the mobo headers to power the led in the pushbutton?

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Re: Power Button LED
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2012, 10:22:17 am »
Yes. Just wire in the button LED to the PWR LED pins on the header. This is what I have done... I also added a hard drive activity LED next to my power button.

See this post: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=108719.msg1226980#msg1226980
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Re: Power Button LED
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2012, 10:45:00 am »
Yes. Just wire in the button LED to the PWR LED pins on the header. This is what I have done... I also added a hard drive activity LED next to my power button.

See this post: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=108719.msg1226980#msg1226980

Cool.  Thanks!

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Re: Power Button LED
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2012, 10:51:29 am »
That post didn't show the header connection, here is where the switch and both LEDs are wired up to. Kind of hard to see in this pic, but you know what a header looks like.