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Help Wiring A Illumiated Pushbutton to start a mother board
bigster:
thanks for your help. Pulled a +12v and a ground from the power supply. Worked Great. Now I just have to solder some wire on to make it long enough
mvsfan:
everythings already been said this question was answered good. but one suggestion when you pull power from a pc power supply, dont cut and splice it. get some of those disk drive power connector y splitters and splice into those.
That way the first time and on down the line that you have to replace the power supply, its still just a plug in deal, theirs no wires to splice, youve already done it with the disk drive splitters. pull the old one out, plug the new one in.
mvsfan:
i made this mistake with a jamma setup i did once.
i didnt have an arcade power supply sitting around that was large enough to power a neo geo 6 slot board, but i did have two atx 400w power supplys sitting on the shelf, so i rewired one to work with jamma, instead of doing the right thing and adding an ATX connector to the jamma harness.
then all id have to do on a power supply replacement was cut two wires (green and black) and add a toggle switch between them to turn the ps on without a pc, and id be done.
the second time around when the first ps died, i did just that i added an ATX connector from digikey to the jamma harness.