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Re: Rigging a PC power supply

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Originally Posted by sciguy125
What I forgot to mention was how I made my switch. I got an adapter then chopped it up. There's 20-pin and 24?-pin motherboard connectors. I had a 20-pin supply, so i bought an adapter and cut the 24-pin connector off (I only needed the 20-pin). I could have just bought the connector and some pins, but they were only sold in 50-packs.

I wired up a switch between 14 and ground. The rest of the wires went to fuses for the respective outputs. There's also 3 signal pins if you want to use them. They tell you when the supply is on, plugged in, and when the power output is good (or bad, I can't remember which). You can connect LEDs to them. This gave me a nice dongle to connect to any ATX supply.
Sounds cool I might just do this tomorrow. I know i have all the necessary parts in my workshop.
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