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powering a PC with an arcade button

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IAmDotorg:
I used an RGB arcade button on the back of my cabinet. I just made a five conductor harness that wired the switch into the button, the power LED into the blue LED and the HDD LED into the red. So when the cab is on, you can sort of see the blue glow, and you can see the HD activity when it flashes magenta. Works great.

If your computer supports power-on-USB-keyboard, you may not even need one. Pushing any button on your encoder would turn it on. Unfortunately my mobo only supports power-on-PS2-keyboard.

yotsuya:

--- Quote from: IAmDotorg on November 13, 2014, 11:07:03 am ---If your computer supports power-on-USB-keyboard, you may not even need one. Pushing any button on your encoder would turn it on. Unfortunately my mobo only supports power-on-PS2-keyboard.

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Yeah, but that would be a pain in the ass if you had a cat or small children.  :cheers:

IAmDotorg:
Depends where you put it, I suppose.

yotsuya:

--- Quote from: IAmDotorg on November 13, 2014, 11:55:03 am ---Depends where you put it, I suppose.

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You just said "pushing any button on the encoder would turn it on." Would that not include any and all pushbuttons as well as joysticks?

IAmDotorg:
Ooooh, I thought you meant what I actually did (the button behind the cab)

Yeah, I suppose that'd be a problem with cats and kids. Thankfully no kids and my cat is WAY too fat to get on it. But I couldn't do it anyway.

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