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Title: need help wiring powerstrip to existing cab power switch
Post by: gnateye on June 10, 2003, 07:23:56 pm

my cab has a power switch in the top, i want to wire this into my powerstrip that runs everything in the cab, my question is this, most switches i'm used to (home light types) use just the black or negative wire and basically interupt the conection, the switch in my cab has 2 wires coming in and 2 going out, is it safe to assume these are just positive and negative instead of just neg?
i want to be sure before i cut the wire on the powerstrip, see the pic atached, i wan to think that the red is the pos and the black is the neg and that the other sides are just random colored wires, so i will interupt the pos and the neg before hte powerstrip with this switch

any help; would rock, im tired of unpluggin the cab to shut the power off.


thanx
gnateye

Title: Re:need help wiring powerstrip to existing cab power switch
Post by: Sshado on June 10, 2003, 10:48:24 pm

I used a switch very similar to yours.  What I did was buy a power strip from Sears for power tools (it turns everything else off when power to computer turns off).  Then I just wired the switch to the power button on my computer.  I flip the switch and everything shuts down nicely.

Sshado