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hulkster:

--- Quote from: _Iz- on February 18, 2004, 12:43:48 pm ---See my response in this thread...

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=16248

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looks like you posted that when i posted my new thread!  sorry, that seems like it should work pretty good.  similar to what Zathras said.  so what did you use to connect the wire from the mobo power thing to the extended wire leading to the microswitch?
_Iz-:

--- Quote from: hulkster081 on February 18, 2004, 12:52:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: _Iz- on February 18, 2004, 12:43:48 pm ---See my response in this thread...

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=16248

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looks like you posted that when i posted my new thread!  sorry, that seems like it should work pretty good.  similar to what Zathras said.  so what did you use to connect the wire from the mobo power thing to the extended wire leading to the microswitch?


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The same stuff you use to wire the control panel would work fine. I used stranded speaker wire and crimp connectors.
CM:
There is also the "wake-on-keyboard" feature that most BIOSs have in them now.  This is useful when used along with a smartstrip.  I turned this on and since all my control panel buttons are mapped to keyboard keys through the IPAC ... it turns on with any button.

(Downside is that my 2-yr old now knows how to turn the cabinet on every time he walks by)  ::)
hulkster:
well okay, i know how to connect wire to the microswitch, im just wondering how to connect to the two wires to make the extended wire?  i was looking around the garage last night, and i found an old package of "solderless wire connectors"....is that what you are talking about?  kind of a black tube like things.  there were about 20 of them in this package.  will that work?
_Iz-:
Hard to say without seeing them but they sound right from the name. You could just twist each pair of wires together and black tape them too. You can also get some "double" crimp connectors made for joining wires, you put one wire in each end and crimp each end separately and the connector makes the connection internally.
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