RC On/Off??

[Dr. Kamolly]

How to turn the PC on and off by a remote control?? How do I do the wiring?

[CanaBalistic]

Well for starters you'd need a seprate power suply to give power to the IR reciver (for a tv like remote) or a fm reciver (for keyless car entry) so you'd be able to turn on the computer. With a fm set up you could hack apart an old rc car and hook a servo to a momentary toggle switch. presto...

You'd need to buy a kit or make one for an IR tv like remote.

If your intrested after everyone has given thier 2 cents. I have a very small power suply im not doing anything with. It came out of an external cd-rom case. I know its at least 16w because the cd-rom was 16w. It has 1 molex connector and a 40mm fan.

[edit] I dont really want to sell the power button because then the case it came out of is usless and ugly. Its just in the pic because i am a stoner
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But wait untill you've thought about it and if it works with your design.
I might post this beauty in the sellers thread so bee on the look out

[DaveW]

The Motherboard cable has two always on 5 volt cables, and even the switch header can provide a small voltage: this can be done without an external power supply, but it involves a bit of hardware hacking.

-Dave

[tybrenis]

Lol,

I love reading the numbers and crap on the piece of paper under the actual items - especially the one entitled "Poker!" with a number under it. :p :p

[CanaBalistic]

thats my time sheet book from work. i jot down all kinds of crap on it. And no i dont have poker depts. The numbers are ip adresses for game servers and its also where i solve my math questions lol

[Omega]

how the **** do you get a 16w device? there are only two, no, three voltages that i know of that you could run off of a molex, and that's 12v, and 5v. you could also wire them together (although **** if i know how) to add 12 to 5 and get 17v. And i don't even know if the last one is possible.

[OvRiDe]

how the **** do you get a 16w device? there are only two, no, three voltages that i know of that you could run off of a molex, and that's 12v, and 5v. you could also wire them together (although **** if i know how) to add 12 to 5 and get 17v. And i don't even know if the last one is possible.

Your getting your units of measure mixed up.. 16w being WATTS and 12V and 5V being VOLTS.

[Dr. Kamolly]

So according to Dave, all we need is a sender (remote) and a IR receiver, et voila! You just hook up the wires coming out of the regular power switch to the IR receiver or what?? How does the regular power switch function?? It closes some kind of circuit in the MoBo, signaling it to turn the power supply?? Or what?

Thanks for the offer Cana-Balistic, but I'm half a world away!! Can't this receiver be powered by a watch battery or something?

[Cannibal23]

The Motherboard cable has two always on 5 volt cables, and even the switch header can provide a small voltage: this can be done without an external power supply, but it involves a bit of hardware hacking.

-Dave

i know one of them is the purple wire on your atx p1 connector. dont know about the other though. what you can do is either pull the pin out of the connector and solder an extra lead on it, or you could open the power supply and solder directly to the board where that purple wire connects. depends on where you need the wire to go i suppose.

[DaveW]

i know one of them is the purple wire on your atx p1 connector. dont know about the other though.

The other one's the grey one that powers up your PSU when you connect it to earth...i think....

how the **** do you get a 16w device?

Calm the hell down! There's no need for that crap.

So according to Dave, all we need is a sender (remote) and a IR receiver, et voila! You just hook up the wires coming out of the regular power switch to the IR receiver or what?? How does the regular power switch function?? It closes some kind of circuit in the MoBo, signaling it to turn the power supply?? Or what?

This IR device comes in a kit and is rated at 12 Volt and 75ma which is about 0.9 Watts unless i'm mistaken. So you can probably get an IR reciever from an old TV or VCR and power it from a Motherboard power header, or maybe a USB header (internal) if you have a motherboard that has the USB +5volts line always on. Most motherboards these days do, so they can support Power on by USB support (another distinct possibility here).

Hope that helps!

-Dave