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Title: External Power Button For Cab Question - Xbox, this time!
Post by: slapaham on March 20, 2009, 08:05:34 pm

Okay, so I have an external button for my cab for my PC, now I want one for my Xbox on the outside of my cab. I have a spare board for the power and eject buttons of an Xbox... the solder points look like this -

(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4483/powerassembly2ur.gif)

Now, as you can see, the power button (SW2) has 4 solder points... 2 ground and 2 for the power, if I removed the original button and I wanted to attach a microswitch/push button in it's place to feed outside of my cab would I solder a wire from one of the ground solder points and one from one of the power solder points and attach it to the NO and ground terminals on the pushbutton's microswitch, would that do the trick?

Title: Re: External Power Button For Cab Question - Xbox, this time!
Post by: severdhed on March 20, 2009, 08:31:40 pm

that should do it.  you shouldnt need to unsolder the old switch though.  you can just use a small wire to jump across the two solder points in queston...if it turns on, the solder wires to those two points and connect them to the arcade pushbutton

Title: Re: External Power Button For Cab Question - Xbox, this time!
Post by: slapaham on March 21, 2009, 01:11:03 pm

Cheers severdhed!

I can confirm this DOES work - very easy to do, I'm new to soldering but I managed it within a few minutes (though it looks a bit messy - but no-one will see! ;D) Works perfectly... eject button should work in the same way but as I'm going to run everything off a new, larger HDD I didn't bother wiring up another button for it.