Making a test power supply

[Spawn-Inc]

wow that came out better then i thought it was, i though it was gonna be a smaller plastic box and not attached like it is. nice job +rep.

[Crimson Sky]

Nice! makes a modder's life easier!

[Bucko]

I found a cigarette lighter I got for free last year some time. I was digging through a box of goodies and found it again, so I thought it's power switch style suited this mod so I chucked it in.

[slytherock]

I found a cigarette lighter I got for free last year some time.

what??? Even if I don't understand waht you're saying, you made a great job on that. If I can find mine, I'll show you, but I'm moving so everything (exept this comp) is packed. Really nice touch to paint it and power switched it. +rep

[Bucko]

I was given that blue car cigarette lighter last year and promptly lost it when I threw it in a box of electrical bits and pieces.
I happened to come across it while looking for something else.
It is supposed to resemble a power cut off switch like you would see in a race car, but I wouldn't ever have it in the dashboard of my car. To cheap and tacky. However it kinda suits the power supply.

[jdbnsn]

I like it, would be handy to have around for sure!

[The boy 4rm oz]

I've got an old ATX 230W PSU which came with my old case. I want to do something like what you did but the only cables I want are the molex ones for testing water cooling loops, fans etc. The power supply has a switch at the back but how will i go about getting the power supply to turn on with out being plugged into the motherboard?

[Bucko]

You need to hook up the green wire that's in the 20 pin motherboard plug, and earth it to a black wire. I did that through the switch on the side and ran the green and a black wire up to it as my PSU has no switch on the back.
If yours has a switch, then the green and black can be attached together permanently and just use the switch on the back to power it up and turn it off.

Here's a link to a tutorial on it: http://www.gideontech.com/content/articles/196/1

It shows you which wires to join.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks, that's a great help. Also when I snip off the extra cables I don't need do I need to do anything with the exposed wire stubs or is it safe to leave them how they are?