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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: bigster on July 21, 2009, 10:02:23 pm
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Ok, so I have run into a little trouble wiring an illuminated pushbutton to start my motherboard.
I soldered awg 22 wire to a computer start button and then hooked it to a microswitch and everthing worked fine, the computer started up with the push of the button. However, when I tried to connected the same wires to the illuminated pushbutton, I get no lighting. I am assuming the mother board does not have enough power to power the light inside the pushbutton. Any Ideas where I can get the power from. I have a Ipac 32 inside the cabinet; could I get the the power from the ipac?
Here is the push button I am trying to light. It has two .250 terminals on the sides. (http://www.arcadeemulator.net/media/images/product_detail/2h54004.jpg)
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The two terminals on the sides are strictly for the light bulb.
Pull 5v from your pc power supply.
Your power button wiring needs to be as you had it before on the microswitch.
I say use 5v not knowing what bulb type that particular button uses, but a 12v bulb usually melts them.
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Thanks for the quick reply!
So both sides are for power, I thought one was ground.
Here is the button I got. http://www.arcadeemulator.net/cgi-bin/shop/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F9997169&rnd=9104149&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=SmallRoundIlluminatedPushbu&cat=IlluminatedPushbutton1&catstr=HOME:Pushbuttons:IlluminatedPushbutton1 (http://www.arcadeemulator.net/cgi-bin/shop/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F9997169&rnd=9104149&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=SmallRoundIlluminatedPushbu&cat=IlluminatedPushbutton1&catstr=HOME:Pushbuttons:IlluminatedPushbutton1)
Should I pull two separate +5v for each side? My PS has like so many unused connections so I can do that.
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one of the side terminals need 5v from the power supply(red), the other needs the ground.(black)
connect the the normal two terminals on the switch to the motherboard where the power switch would connect.
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Hi,
Those button lamps are normally connected to the 12 volt supply with low wattage wedge lamps fitted.
Regards
Alan Hood
ami-man
UK
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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
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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.
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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.