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Taborious

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PC power switch wiring
« on: July 25, 2005, 09:39:34 am »
I know this is very simple and is just the 2 wires from the jumper on the motherboard but my question is the type of switch. A rocker or toggle switch will make a psuedo permanent closed circuit, is that what I want? or just a pushbutton that closes the circuit and then opens it again? How does that work?
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Re: PC power switch wiring
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2005, 11:19:58 am »
Yeah, you just need a momentary contact to tell the system to come up.  Personally, I'm just using one of the same buttons as I have for my control panel, but many things would work.
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Re: PC power switch wiring
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2005, 11:29:13 am »
You can program it to do stuff in windows too.
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Re: PC power switch wiring
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2005, 01:06:36 pm »
I use the Bits Smart Surge Bar and wired in a standard arcade pushbutton on the back of my CP and to my PC. I can't say enough good things about the surge bar. This thing works great. Just power down the PC and it will turn off everything else. Awesome!!!!
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Re: PC power switch wiring
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2005, 02:29:10 pm »
Momentary, that's what I thought but I needed someone to give me the warm fuzzy before I did anything. Thanks...
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