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Can you power 12V Arcade buttons from a PC ?
« on: May 22, 2014, 08:22:51 am »
I'll soon be working on my next project, a Nintendo Punch-Out! themed bartop.
I'm thinking about trying to use (for the 1st time) LED buttons.
My local seller has 12v buttons. Can I power these from a PC ?
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Re: Can you power 12V Arcade buttons from a PC ?
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2014, 08:54:44 am »
yeah, just tap the 12v from a hard drive molex connector.
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Re: Can you power 12V Arcade buttons from a PC ?
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2014, 10:31:11 am »
So I could buy perhaps some form of splitter of eBay perhaps ?
One connection to the HDD and the other to the buttons.
Then just use the yellow (12v) & black (ground) to power them ?
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Re: Can you power 12V Arcade buttons from a PC ?
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2014, 10:31:42 am »
exactly
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Re: Can you power 12V Arcade buttons from a PC ?
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2014, 11:09:27 am »
Cool, thanks.
I'll look thru my box of stuff tonight (or order off eBay).
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Re: Can you power 12V Arcade buttons from a PC ?
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2014, 01:00:57 am »
or you could just split the yellow and black, solder a set of wires to it.  Connect these wires to a distribution block and go from there.  Many options
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Re: Can you power 12V Arcade buttons from a PC ?
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2014, 09:04:17 pm »
Sweet, thanks all.
Not sure if my newest project will be PC based, or XBOX based.
None the less I wanna use the LED buttons (12V).
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Re: Can you power 12V Arcade buttons from a PC ?
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2014, 10:11:51 pm »
the first XBOX's hard drive used a molex connector for power, just tap the 12v rail as described above.
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