Hello everybody,
Still in the build of my arcade bartop cabinet, this time I am looking for a way of having a nice electric outlet at the back of the bartop. I saw many posts on forums and pages, but never a clear explanation of the logic behind it.
I intend to plug the computer, screen, leds, harddisk and everything on one power strip, inside the bartop. Then plug the powerstrip to an outlet, inside the bartop, connect the outlet to an IEC outlet and having only one IEC cable coming out of the bartop, to plug it to the wall.
In that way, I find it more clean, more easy to change, repair and nicer. Here is a little drawing for better understanding :
Sorry it is in french, so "bloc que je desire realiser" means "bloc that I would like to build", "prise mur" is the wall outlet, and "boite de derivation qui contiendra le bloc" is the box that is represented by a red square.
I have everything already, the box, the outlet, the iec module, the cables ....
Only thing, is that I don't know how to wire the IEC module to the outlet.
I read many different posts on forums, saw many images, schema, it is always different and answers barely explain the logic behind it in order to be able to do it with a different configuration.
So here I am, trying to wire my outlet (which again, will be inside the bartop, and looks like that) :
so 2 L, 2 ground, and 2 N
to my IEC module (which will go to the outside), note that it has a LED that lights when on ON
on the last picture, you can notice that the pin at the bottom right is in another color, a bit orange, while the rest are more silver, that on the same side of the switch when on ON
I also have these just in case:
So I found this image with an outlet that look (the back of it) like mine :
the green is the ground, the blue is the N and the brown is the L
however, I dont know if the ON switch is on the same side as mine, so I don't know if the wiring would be the same.....
So I am a bit lost on what to do, and how to be sure I do it correctly, thus I would like to understand the logic (I am noob in electronics but I want to learn).
Thanks for any advice and help !