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| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: grundle on April 10, 2007, 08:22:10 am ---That Purple Cranium button is meant to easily turn OFF. You have to have the switch cover up to flip the switch on, then when you close the cover, it automatically turns the switch off. So I would imagine that accidental power offs will be more likely. --- End quote --- Unless you wire it backwards so that down is ON and you flip the guard and flip the switch to turn it OFF. |
| Extreme8:
--- Quote from: grundle on April 10, 2007, 08:22:10 am ---That Purple Cranium button is meant to easily turn OFF. You have to have the switch cover up to flip the switch on, then when you close the cover, it automatically turns the switch off. So I would imagine that accidental power offs will be more likely. --- End quote --- You could use a momentary contact toggle with the switch cover. Push the toggle up to fire up the pc, release and let the switch snap back, close the cover. Now it's protected against accidental shut-down. I'm building a new CP now using one of these to cover the "esc" switch. It's a Nascar theme and I'm integrating a panel with several toggles for FE navigation, johnny5, etc. I hope it will look similar to a race car ignition/accessory panel. If it doesn't I guess I just won't mount it. FYI, my power switch is recessed into the back of the cab. That's where I seem to remember them being in the olden days. |
| DarkBubble:
You could always recess the button and add a hinged, flushmount door painted with the old black/yellow danger stripes. I was thinking of doing that with my standalone control panel, but to cover the ethernet patch panel that will probably make its way into it. |
| grundle:
--- Quote from: Extreme8 on April 10, 2007, 08:41:49 am ---You could use a momentary contact toggle with the switch cover. Push the toggle up to fire up the pc, release and let the switch snap back, close the cover. Now it's protected against accidental shut-down. I'm building a new CP now using one of these to cover the "esc" switch. It's a Nascar theme and I'm integrating a panel with several toggles for FE navigation, johnny5, etc. I hope it will look similar to a race car ignition/accessory panel. If it doesn't I guess I just won't mount it. FYI, my power switch is recessed into the back of the cab. That's where I seem to remember them being in the olden days. --- End quote --- That's a great idea. I hadn't thought of that. This is definitely what you should do. |
| horseboy:
Here is a good example. |
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