On Monday (03/21/2011 at 11:44AM -0400), Dave McGuire wrote:
On 3/21/11 11:34 AM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
Thanks Tony. I plan to put a rocker switch
between ground and
ground-for-on and use that to power up my entire "corporate" rack.
Someone has already cut a square hole in the bottom front kick plate
of this rack and so I was looking for something to fill that hole--
plastic plugs, body putty, and then a nice rocker switch came to mind.
With that I won't have to crawl behind the rack to power it all up...
and so this will connect nicely to one of the Power Control Bus connectors
with just two wires and fill the void (so to speak) that someone put in
this panel.
What's in your corporate rack?
Two RL02 and 11/34A... which fills it except for one ugly 1U-ish gap
above the CPU and below the top RL02. The CPU can't go up tight to
the top RL02 because of some structure in the rack so it looks like
they always had some other small panel piece to fit there... which I do
not have.
There's a good picture of one here,
http://museum.dyne.org/index.php/Immagine:P5182215.jpg
So, that piece just below the RL02 is on my "to find" list ;-)
Then the very bottom panel piece on mine has a roughly 1" x 3/4"
rectangular hole cut in it near the right side. A white rocker switch
with ( 1 / 0) embossed on it will fit that hole though and serve as my
master on / off for the rack (via that 872-A PDU) I guess.
Chris
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Chris Elmquist