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tylerwerrin:

Hi guys,

I purchased one of these LED switches off ebay:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/16mm-12V-LED-Power-Push-Button-Switch-Black-Aluminum-Metal-Latching-/360779687271?ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:US:3160

with the intention of using it as my one press power button to turn on everything in my cab. I have a smart strip with the computer in the "Master" position, and my other devices (sub, marquee light, monitor) connected to the slave power. I want this one switch to turn on the computer, which will then in theory turn everything else on on the power strip.

From the specs it looks like I need 12v to get the LED to light up when the switch is pressed - how would I wire this to the optiplex? The switch in the optiplex and any other computer for that matter are momentary switches, correct? Could someone help me get this thing wired up?

thanks!

Thanks!

tylerwerrin:

Anyone have a write up for a single button tap to the computers power supply?

HaRuMaN:

You don't want a latching switch, you want a momentary switch.  Then you just run the momentary switch to the switch pins on the motherboard.

EMDB:


--- Quote from: HaRuMaN on August 21, 2014, 12:29:20 pm ---You don't want a latching switch, you want a momentary switch.  Then you just run the momentary switch to the switch pins on the motherboard.

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A Dell Optiplex has a BIOS setting to boot on power on. You can use a single mains switch to control a regular powerstrip which powers on everything including the pc....

JDFan:

As mentioned you don't want latching and you don't want to connect it to the Powersupply -- you want to use a momentary switch and wire it up to the Power on\off button of the optiplex. (reason you want it this way is so when you press the button it turns on the computer then when you press it again it will run the windows shut down procedure (if you set it to shut down on power button press in the windows settings)


--- Quote from: EMDB on August 21, 2014, 12:52:46 pm ---A Dell Optiplex has a BIOS setting to boot on power on. You can use a single mains switch to control a regular powerstrip which powers on everything including the pc....

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Problem with that is there is no corresponding setting for SHUT DOWN so when you power off it could cause corruption of the files.

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