Wiring Questions

[Viinny420]

So i want to build a 100% Stealth PC Grow Box. And i want the box to be able to turn off and on the same you turn on a computer.. by hitting the on/off button. But when i wired everything up the box on gets power when the buttons held in and when i release the button it looses power again. What do it do? What did i wire wrong.

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[polyarcturus]

something is wrong with the pics but i sounds like you have a white and a black wire hooked to it. you should only have one wire hooked, the live or black wire, to both sides of the switch to interrupt the circuit. so the live wire should be in the circuit with the switch as a break in it.

 

[Viinny420]

something is wrong with the pics but i sounds like you have a white and a black wire hooked to it. you should only have one wire hooked, the live or black wire, to both sides of the switch to interrupt the circuit. so the live wire should be in the circuit with the switch as a break in it.

 

[chrishydro]

Those switches are low voltage, even though you plug a computer into the wall there is a transformer that puts out 12v dc to run your computer. Nothing on your computer is 110 volt. The swich is activating when you press it but most likely has a overload chip that then turns it off when you let it go.

Not going to work.

 

[polyarcturus]

really i was under the impression the switch was wired in before the DC conversion. i may be wrong since it been a while fo me to tear apart desktops apart but im pretty sure the switch he is working with is ac.

 

[polyarcturus]

you might be right now that i look at the ouside design, does the button depress and make a mechanical "click" or does it just push in like one on a laptop, if its the latter it wont work, and it is a low voltage switch.

 

[chrishydro]

really i was under the impression the switch was wired in before the DC conversion. i may be wrong since it been a while fo me to tear apart desktops apart but im pretty sure the switch he is working with is ac.

Low voltage for sure, they would never wire a switch that small that people would have to push all over the world with 110, we would be reading about people getting electrocuted all over the place, think about that for a minute. lol Low voltage for sure, with that said I am sure you could go to lowes and get a simular switch that is 110 that you could wire or build in there. You might think about just having and inline switch on the plug and leave the other switch in there so it looks like a pc but you have to turn it on with one of those inline wire switches.

 

[Viinny420]

you might be right now that i look at the ouside design, does the button depress and make a mechanical "click" or does it just push in like one on a laptop, if its the latter it wont work, and it is a low voltage switch.

It makes a click

 

[H R Puff N Stuff]

and dont forget to ground your grow box it looks all metal.

 

[polyarcturus]

like it goes in a 1/4"? then its AC and you need to follow my instructions, the wire the goes to the switch is the live wire, it connects to both wirs on the switcth the other 2 wires(neutral and ground) bypass the switch completely(meaning you do not connet these wires to the switch)

 

[L0st1t]

Old cases used to be directly in line with the power supply, anything from the past 5-6-7 years the button connects to the motherboard and as previously mentioned is low voltage / low current. It really depends on the power supply though. But most of the switches on anything semi-modern are just momentary switches that send a quick little burst to the motherboard (and or power supply) and it tells it to fire up.

I like the gig - but your going to need a switch that can handle the power.