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yaksplat:

--- Quote from: P-chan on April 25, 2012, 10:26:11 pm ---Because then you end up destroying a power strip instead of a $0.97 extension cable.  No big deal, as power strips are generally pretty bulletproof, but if something did ever go wrong with the power strip, you're screwed if you need to replace it.

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Cut, crimp on terminals, attach.  Really only a 2 minute process.

P-chan:

--- Quote from: yaksplat on April 25, 2012, 10:44:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: P-chan on April 25, 2012, 10:26:11 pm ---Because then you end up destroying a power strip instead of a $0.97 extension cable.  No big deal, as power strips are generally pretty bulletproof, but if something did ever go wrong with the power strip, you're screwed if you need to replace it.

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Cut, crimp on terminals, attach.  Really only a 2 minute process.

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Or, unplug the bad one and plug in a new one.  A 2 second process, no tools needed, can do it on the fly.... obviously either way would work, however I don't know why you'd want a powerstrip hardwired into your cabinet when you could make it modular with zero extra effort.

wp34:

--- Quote from: bleargh on April 25, 2012, 05:37:55 pm ---When I did this, I yanked the plug off of the end of my power strip, and then soldered those three wires right onto the receptacle (which IIRC, I ripped out of an ancient PC power supply).

Works great... I use a regular PC power cord to plug the cabinet in, but inside the cabinet I've got a whole power strip with multiple receptacles on it for plugging in all the various bits.

As for making sure you get the wires connected properly when you do this, grab yourself a receptacle tester:


Plug it in to the power strip, and it'll light up and tell you if you've got it wired up correctly (and they're cheap; ~$5?)

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Thanks for that tip.   :cheers:

I just used one of these to verify the wiring on mine.

BobA:
I put a small power strip/smart adapter in the cab and it plugged into a regular AC ext cord.

The adapter was purchased at Walmart for less then $20.  A small hole in the back panel lets the ext cord connect to the power adapter that has a regular power plug that would plug into a wall socket if it was not in the cabinet.

Thenasty:
how about something like this

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