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what are YOU using to power your cab
spystyle:
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--- Quote from: spystyle on September 21, 2005, 09:21:02 am ---Not to mention a series of button pushes makes it confusing for wives and children. Simply pushing one button to power everything on, then later the same button to power everything off makes it easy for them.
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But my cab has one button to power on, aside from actually plugging it in. So I presume you leave yours plugged in all the time, but that seems a pretty obvious thing to me (not like having to turn on several things I mean).
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Yes, I leave mine plugged in all the time. I wouldn't want my daughter to have to plug the cab in to play it. Again, I think of it like the other household electronics, it would be a drag if I had to plug the VCR in everytime I wanted to watch a movie.
By what means do you get power to everything with one button press? Maybe all you need to do is add a relay.
Craig
versapak:
--- Quote from: Minwah on September 21, 2005, 10:26:19 am ---
--- Quote from: versapak on September 21, 2005, 08:33:41 am ---I use an Xbox in mine, so the benefit of the smartstrip (which I use) is keeping the Xbox supplied with a constant flow of power, so that I don't have to reset the clock every time I boot it up.
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Does it matter if the clock is wrong? I read that when modding it is a good idea to keep the clock correct, but personally I don't want to supply power to mine constantly.
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Actually...
It doesn't really matter much at all with the mod turned on, because it checks with a time server on boot, but with the mod off, it forces me to the time/date settings at the dash on start up. Not a big deal, but annoying all the same.
Another thing with the Xbox, is that it doesn't automatically turn on when it receives power, and unlike a PC, it can't be changed to do so in bios settings.
With the smartstrip, I just have a power button for my Xbox routed to the underside of my control panel, and I can easily turn the cab on and off from there (Downside is that my 2 year old is shorter than the bottom of my control panel, but that problem will be taken care of with a little time. lol). Plus i got the smartstrip from a supplier that was clearing em out, so it was as cheap as buying a regular surge strip.