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Hacking a SmartStrip - Help! [NEW PICS (09.26.07)]

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Green Giant:

From the sounds of it, bob might have thought this was just supposed to be a switch, not its own terminal for a power cord to connect.  You will be just fine from what I can tell. 

It should be really easy to connect the sliced up smartstrip to the switch/connection thing.  Once you cut it open you will know what you are dealing with, but in general, green is ground.  Sometimes there is a copper stranded wire wrapped around two inner wires.  The outside unshielded is ground, the two inner are your live and neutral power connections.  Typically in the US black, red, or blue are your live connection and white is the neutral.  On a wall socket, the left wider slot is neutral, the right slot is hot or live, and the bottom is your ground connection.

If I am looking at yours correctly, your red wire is the live wire, black is your neutral, and green is ground.

mountain:

javeryh ,

Use the Diagram below to familiarize yourself with the location of hot, neutral, and ground. Plug in your cord to the input jack. Using the diagram and a meter, you will be able to figure out which wire is hot, neutral and ground. Do the same thing with the Smartstrip. Cut the plug off and meter wires to the receptacles on the smartstrip.  Now all you have to do is match them up to each other and you are done.





Jouster:

I did something very similar to this myself...I used a $3 power strip and did Spystyle's hack with the relay...used a socket from an old power supply for the back of the cab...looks very clean...inside too.  Plus it came with the added bonus of losing unneeded length from the strip's power cord.  I really liked that part.

Just the above mentions of wire colors to make your connections...and of course don't test it in your cab!!!  Just in case... :blah:

Jouster

gonzojoey:

Here a link to Kaytrim's post (with pics) were he did a powerstrip spliced into a busted PC power supply plug hack (like mentioned above by Jouster)
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=66082.msg683216#msg683216

BobA:

Javeryh

If Spacies wired it for you it is good to go.  Sorry for my worries but I did not see a buss bar on the terminals that I thought were unwired.  Just follow the advice given by Mountain and others and it will be fine.   Just remember your red is hot, black is neutral and green is ground. 

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