Since everything is plugged into this outlet, it all comes on when I flip the switch. Now when I flip the switch, the outlet inside the cab has power. I then used one of those outlet testers from Radio Shack to verify I had hooked up the switched outlet correctly. I then connected the other end of the black wire to the hot side of the outlet. I connected the other tab of the rocker switch to the black wire of the romex cable. I connected the other end of the white wire to one tab of a 125V 15Amp rocker switch (doesn't matter which of the two). I took a 8' piece of romex (household wire) and connected the hot (black usually) from the extension cord to the white wire in the romex cable. I then connected the neutral wire (white usually) to the neutral side of the outlet (usually says white) and the ground wire (bare copper) to the ground on the outlet (green screw). I chopped off the end you plug stuff into (not the end that goes into the wall). I bought a 15' heavy duty extension cord (my cab didn't have a cord). What I did was make a switchable ac outlet inside my cab. In winxp this is easier because the computer goes through the proper shut down even by hitting the power button on the case.
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Though to start up and shut down in win98 you'd need to figure out how to make the same power button do both. I like 1-up's relay method, but this has been working for me just fine. If there's any chance of bare wire touching any other metal or wires wrap it in electrical tape. Let it cool and give it a little tug to test it's strength.
Then you press the two wires together and just touch it with the soldering iron enough to melt the solder. That means you heat the wire with the soldering iron and then melt a little solder onto just that wire. As said above, get two bare wires (or wire directly onto the metal inside the surge protector). When you test it out, have all exposed wires covered and tucked away. Wrap any exposed wire in electrical tape. Just don't have the thing plugged in when you're working on it. The risk of getting shocked isn't bad at all. If you look inside the surge protector though, they only used 18 or 16 gage wire, so speaker wire was overkill. To make sure it handled the power I used speaker wire. It does need to be able to handle 120v in the US. I'm sure they would have a push button type of on/off at radio shack that you can use.
I used a flip switch from radio shack and mounted it on top of my cabinet. You would need to figure out how to make the coin door connect and disconnect the two wires for on/off.
This is safer than using a switch connected directly to the power strip, because you dont' have to worry about 120V going through your body if you don't fully insulate your switch contacts. If youo want, you can also run an extension pushbutton to the power swtich of the PC, and mount it anywhere you want to on your cab.
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This gives you a graceful exit from windows, and guarantees youo won't be turning off the PC in the middle of a drive write. Now you just plug in the drive power connector to the PC's power supply, and voila! Whenever you startup or shutdown the PC, anything plugged into the power strip will also turn on or turn off. Then you wire the power contacts to the cut ends of one of the wires running to switch on the power strip. Basically, you wire the switching contacts of the relay to the ground and either the 5V or 12V lead on the drive connector (depending on the needs of the relay). All these parts should be available at Radio Shack. All you need is a power strip, a power relay (one that can handle around 9-10A at 120-240V) and a hard drive power plug connector (you can use either an old y-splitter, extension, or a crimp-together kit). I still think the best and easiest way to do this is the relay method.
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