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powering a PC with an arcade button
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: IAmDotorg on November 13, 2014, 12:02:38 pm --- my cat is WAY too fat to get on it. But I couldn't do it anyway.
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Like Norm?
I see him every other week and that video is the most I've ever seen him move. I seriously thought he couldn't navigate the stairs until I saw that video.
As a joke, I drew a chalk outline around him in the morning. He was still inside the chalk when I came by in the afternoon.
Someone told me he actually lost weight in the past year. Personally, I think he finally took a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
knightrdrx:
It plugs in without soldering?????
--- Quote from: keilmillerjr on November 12, 2014, 10:40:12 pm ---Purchase this 2 wire .100 header wire and make your life easy. Trace the power button back to the motherboard and unplug it. Plug this new little harness on in place and connect your arcade button. You may need to extend it if it's too short, but making an extension wire with the quick disconnects is easy.
http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/jamma-harnesses/302-2-wire-100-header-wiring-harness.html
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keilmillerjr:
--- Quote from: knightrdrx on November 28, 2014, 11:18:46 am ---It plugs in without soldering?????
--- Quote from: keilmillerjr on November 12, 2014, 10:40:12 pm ---Purchase this 2 wire .100 header wire and make your life easy. Trace the power button back to the motherboard and unplug it. Plug this new little harness on in place and connect your arcade button. You may need to extend it if it's too short, but making an extension wire with the quick disconnects is easy.
http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/jamma-harnesses/302-2-wire-100-header-wiring-harness.html
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Yep. I'm going to place this button inside the coin door, so there is no unauthorized play. I have everything plugged into an ecostrip (smart strip), so this is the one button to rule them all.
knightrdrx:
That's what I want to do too. But I'll put it in the back so no one says..hey..what does this button do? Do you use the tripp lite power strip?
I have 2 of those and they work great.
Can anyone tell me how to make the wire harness longer in case i need to.
keilmillerjr:
--- Quote from: knightrdrx on November 28, 2014, 12:11:41 pm ---That's what I want to do too. But I'll put it in the back so no one says..hey..what does this button do? Do you use the tripp lite power strip?
I have 2 of those and they work great.
Can anyone tell me how to make the wire harness longer in case i need to.
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I am using the ecostrip brand product. My motherboard doesn't have a bios option to disable power over usb on shutdown, so I found a female usb to female molex adaptor and connected it to my power supply.
http://www.ecostrip.com
To extend the power button wires, the ends of the paradise arcade harness are normal spade connectors. You need to buy them to attach your other buttons to your controller anyways, so make two female spade to male spade wires.