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iscariot:
I've decided to work a set of switches into my cabinet to turn things on and off a little easier.  As of now I have a power strip in the cabinet that I turn on to get things going but it powers everything, which I don't want to always do.  What I want to do is have a main power switch driving the pc, Monitor, and speakers and I also want a switch to drive the "optional" electrical hardware that I have in the system, like the marquee lights and coin door lights.

The way I'm looking at it now, I'm going to need 3 switches, 1 for the main power, 1 for the marquee and one for the coin door since the marquee is 110v and the coin doors are 12v.

How do I wire in a toggle switch here?  I already have a good amount of extension cord wire but it looks as though I have 4 wires in there.

Sorry for sounding like an idiot on this, but I've never touched high voltage stuff.  Everything else I work on is 2 wires, power and ground.  I don't want to wind up setting my place on fire doing this.
Dr Zero:
Here is some info about switches that might help

http://www.doityourself.com/stry/h2installswitch

You could take a regular wall box with 2 spots and mount it on the cab have the power come in and run to the two switches the first would turn on the power strip and the second would turn off the light.

Or  what I would maybe do is get a remote control switch and use it to turn off the marquee so you dont have to do any wiring at all and also consider running the coin lights off of a ac/dc adapter plugged into same plug as the marquee. One push of the remote and all the lights go off.

http://www.amazon.com/Northern-Tool-Equipment-RS-211-Wireless/dp/B0000ERN8H/ref=pd_cp_hi_1


 
garnerb350:
I sat reading this for 10 min before i decided to throw my two cents in on this one....

Why would you go through the trouble hacking the power strip? I dont want to see your place catch on fire either....

This is just an idea, but how bout this.....

Leave the power strip alone....plug the PC, monitor , speakers in that power strip....
For the marquee place a switch in the line running from the powerstrip to the marquee.
The 12v coin lights....also place a switch and have it run to the 12v in the pc. or use a wall wart if you want to run it from the powerstrip.

iscariot:
Your drawing was pretty much what I came up with.  I was going to just open a power strip and alter the switch so it runs off to a toggle in the cabinet.  That leaves the marquee and the 12v.  I need to open up a strip to look at it.  Thanks.

What about the extra wires?  I thought that there were 4 wires in a strip.
garnerb350:
Power strips scare me...Last week at work a lady desk caught on fire, because the strip wasnt up to specs...

My cab uses the smart strip...and I ve never had the need to look inside a power strip....

but i see what you are wanting to do....

I rather hack the wiring instead of the power supply... much safer...

I'm just a jack of all trades....master of none... :dunno

Somewhere on the site, (do a search) I think I saw where a guy did a simular setup of hacking the power strip...but i think it involved parts that were hard to find....werid relays or something...

DONT YOU DIE ON ME MAN!!!! :o
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