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Title: pushbutton as on off switch??
Post by: squirrellydw on April 02, 2006, 01:54:44 pm

I plan on using a smartstrip in my cab and was wondering if you can wire a pushbutton to be an on/off switch?  My thought was to cut the wires to the computer switch and wire them to a pushbutton, would that work?

Title: Re: pushbutton as on off switch??
Post by: squirrellydw on April 02, 2006, 02:00:09 pm

forget it I found the answer.  Looks like I can as long as it an ATX motherboard

Title: Re: pushbutton as on off switch??
Post by: AtomSmasher on April 02, 2006, 03:13:41 pm

Quote from: squirrellydw on April 02, 2006, 01:54:44 pm

My thought was to cut the wires to the computer switch and wire them to a pushbutton, would that work?

Thats what I did and it works great.

Title: Re: pushbutton as on off switch??
Post by: Flinkly on April 02, 2006, 11:10:39 pm

i'm doing the same thing...just in case you need more proof.  it's nice.

Title: Re: pushbutton as on off switch??
Post by: TOK on April 04, 2006, 06:28:27 am

I did this, and initially put it right on the back of my control panel, pretty far away from the player one controls. Didn't figure it'd be a problem until my 9 year old niece came over and started spazzing out and hitting every button within reach while playing fighting games with her dad.

I ended up moving it off the panel to top of the cabinet. Just something to keep in mind if you're going to have kids, game spazzes or both use your cabinet.  :D

Title: Re: pushbutton as on off switch??
Post by: Orclord on April 04, 2006, 06:45:41 am

Or you have cats....

Moved mine to behind the coin door, above the coin box..

Title: Re: pushbutton as on off switch??
Post by: Santoro on April 04, 2006, 08:03:41 am

Kids certainly define spazzy sometimes.

Title: Re: pushbutton as on off switch??
Post by: Havok on April 04, 2006, 08:42:09 am

Yup - I have kids too. That's why my power button is way up in the upper left corner, away from little fingers. When I was mocking up the CP, they were already mashing the buttons like crazy...