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Best place to mount on/off switch (button) for cabinet?
pointdablame:
I'm gonna suggest the top of the machine as well. Right now my cab is just a working Xmen and I notice people leaning on it all different ways. I'd be that CP has been touched/bumped/and pushed in every spot imaginable.
My machine has a counter-sunk switch up top which I'm going to just reuse as my computer power switch... it's easy to access, out of the way, and most people won't even give it a thought.
sofakng:
Wow, seems like lots of people suggest the top...
Anybody have any pictures of a button on the top already mounted?
pcates:
--- Quote from: sofakng on August 12, 2004, 02:42:46 pm ---Wow, seems like lots of people suggest the top...
Anybody have any pictures of a button on the top already mounted?
--- End quote ---
If you mount it on top of the cab, you can not see it unless you are like 7 feet tall, or you cab is <6 feet, so there is not any reason to photograph it. You would be the only one that would know it was there.
Trimoor:
here is a much better idea that doesn't even need an extra switch!
attatch a SPDT relay to the computer power supply, wire the NO of any button on your panel to the common of the relay.
Wire the NC of the relay to the motherboard.
Wire the NO of the relay to the keyboard encoder.
What this does is causes a button on your panel to turn on the computer, but once it is on, it will run to the keyboard encoder, not to the computer power.
To turn it off, just shutdown through your OS.
(If this doesn't make sense, I can post a circuit diagram)
(oh, and no I did not do this on my cab. Mine is hard powered, so I mounted a lightswitch underneath to the front right)
SpamMe:
I'm just using a standard push button right on the control panel. It works fine (I have a spacious panel, so it doesn't get bumped accidentally) but if there are a lot of people coming over, I usually flip a switch inside the cabinet that disables the button.
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