Wiring Help

[Yoodaa]

Just about finished my cabinet. this weekend I will wire and paint her. Just a quick question. I am running a 21" monitor in my cab, so when its not in use I want it to go into standby. This is cool but i am going to want to turn the lights off as well as the speakers, meaning they all cannot run on the same power board. Bassically :

Standby device:                                     Devices that should turn off:
PC                                                          Light
Monitor                                                  Speakers

Anyone have any ideas on how to wire this up to the mains? I would prefer not to be opening my cab door all the time to turn power boards on and off. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance guys.

[holdennut]

I think this has been discussed before, but it sounds like you need one of these...

http://www.bitsltd.net/smartstrip/buy.htm

or this...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/6ee4/

Enjoy

[SteveJ34]

Actually I think he wants to actually sustain power to the PC and monitor, letting them go into standby mode while at the same time triggering the lights and speakers to switch off.

Before the power strip mentioned became known, I went the "single button power the cab" route of wiring a relay switch into a power strip which was in turn triggered by 12v running off the PC, power the PC and then it would trigger power  to the power strip.

I think for what you describe you would need some type  of similar relay  that  is going to trigger  "off" when the PC hits standby mode....I've never tested it but do the 12v and 5v lines go low when  PC hits standby mode? If yes, that would  work.

Or perhaps the USB ports?

Again, I think wanting to cut power to  certain devices will require the wiring of some  sort of relay that is  triggered by the  fact  that the  PC went  into  standby mode.

Hope this helps....

[NoOne=NBA=]

The simplest solution to this would be to have a separate power strip for the speakers/lights, that had a pigtail power switch run to the top of the cabinet.
That would mean that you would have to manually turn the lights/speakers on and off, but wouldn't require any separate circuitry to pull off.

The plus side to this is that it would allow you to leave the lights on for ambiance, and have just the computer go to sleep.
The down side is that it wouldn't all trigger automatically, based on the state of the computer at the time.

[Bgnome]

i got one of these things from sears for $20.  i will have my monitor plugged in to the top outlet and power strips to the bottom outlets for lights, speakers, fans and such.  whenever the monitor goes into sleep mode, it shuts off power to the other two outlets.  i will be using my laptop in this setup and it doesnt draw enough power to keep the circuit on so that is why i use my monitor.  i have not tried it with a pc suspended though..