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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: numbnutz48 on September 27, 2012, 07:41:41 pm

Title: Power button wiring
Post by: numbnutz48 on September 27, 2012, 07:41:41 pm
Been awhile since I popped in here, but was wondering if anyone could help or point me to a thread that explains how to wire the PC power supply to an external switch/button for the outside of a cabinet?

Thanks for any help
Title: Re: Power button wiring
Post by: capsule on September 28, 2012, 06:07:26 am
Quote from: numbnutz48 on September 27, 2012, 07:41:41 pm
Been awhile since I popped in here, but was wondering if anyone could help or point me to a thread that explains how to wire the PC power supply to an external switch/button for the outside of a cabinet?

Thanks for any help

Easy :
- Find the "Power Switch" connector on your motherboard (comes with RESET SWITCH, HDD LED and so on), or follow the wires coming from your current PC case power switch.
- connect 2 wires to this connector at one end, and a momentary switch (a microswitch will do) at the other end

Done!
Title: Re: Power button wiring
Post by: bmbas1210 on September 28, 2012, 01:07:17 pm
Quote from: capsule on September 28, 2012, 06:07:26 am

Easy :
- Find the "Power Switch" connector on your motherboard (comes with RESET SWITCH, HDD LED and so on), or follow the wires coming from your current PC case power switch.
- connect 2 wires to this connector at one end, and a momentary switch (a microswitch will do) at the other end

Done!

He's right. I personally prefer to cannibalize my favorite power buttons from old towers for new projects (case mods). I have an old broken case with a particularly cool chrome led power button  that I'm going to steal from my parents house when I go visit them this weekend for my podium cab in progress. Just as simply (in most cases) the led can be swapped out as well.
Title: Re: Power button wiring
Post by: ChadTower on October 01, 2012, 11:22:23 am

I did the same thing in my MAME cab.  Grabbed a momentary pushbutton from Radio Shack, mounted it in a recessed hole in the top of the cabinet next to where the cabinet main switch is located.  It's nice, gives me a cab main and a boot/reset/shutdown button right next to it.  It is wired in parallel to the motherboard's boot/shutdown button.