I am starting to design a mod and am sorting out all the little ins and outs and have run into a few road blocks. When wiring speakers the signal degrades over a length of wire but with current you have no degrading, correct? I want to mount the power supply externally and will have to lengthen the wires in order to reach. Any thoughts on how to do this. My simple way is cut the wire and just use wire connectors. There may or may not be a window. I haven't decided yet. I am leaning towards no window or a very small one. The wires will be covered prob in some sort of dark mesh or heat shrink tubing so if the connectors are small enough you shouldn't see them very easily.
The next thing is I may want install a phone with an answering machine in this mod. The phone -non portable- I believe runs on its own current supplied by the phone line but the answering machine and caller ID screen will need seperate power? The answering machine and phone will be hardware not intergrated software. I want it them to work without powering up the main system. I can wire in seperate switches for this or do I need seperate power suppllies. I thought that the power supply was turned on and off from the computer mobo or can you do it manually.
I am sure I will have many more questions thanks for the help so far.