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Adding a power button
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The Dark Half
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Is it posible to rip apart an old ADB keyboard, and strip it down to jut the power button but keeping the cable? I have a 7500 w/usb card, but the USB keyboard wont power on the machine and I thought it would be a great to just have the power button from the ADB keyboard and run it up and attach to the moniter or USB keyboard.
the 7500 sits on the floor as i have no room for it n the desk. Makes turning it on a pain...
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The Dark Half
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my wife and her "energy conservation"....
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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"Energy Conservation"
Demonstrate to her the concept of the Energy Saver control panel. It can turn off your monitor, computer and harddrives to a near power-off level. Basically drawing near a light bulb or so. The cost to keep it on is insignificant.
Then convince her that booting up and shutting down costs unusable energy and time in booting. With the energy saver you only have to 'repower' the system, without the loss of startup and shutdown time.
This is all anecdotal and perhaps the industry is simply pulling the wool over our eyes, but I think not. Try it out!
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Wetsponge
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why she shuts down your mac, just go into a catatonic state and not respond until she powers it back up, always works for me, they just have to understand, that our macs come first, sorry honey.
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The Dark Half
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it's actually her mac.. i have a my own G4 MT (which she is not allowed to touch)
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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It's been a while since I've looked at ADB connector information, but wasn't one of the four pins specificaly for the power-button...I thought there was one pin that was just grounded, to initiate the power-on signal. If that's the case, then you don't even need to 'tear down' a keyboard, just make a little switchbox which grounds that pin.
Again, it's been a while... but if you can find a pinout describing the four pins, I was sure that one of them is the 'power on' pin....
--Stephanie
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Clinically Insane
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Yes, ADB uses MiniDin 4 (AppleTalk uses MiniDin 3 I think).
The power key shorts the 4th pin which turns on your Mac when it triggers a circuit, I believe.
You can't leave a 7500 on forever. Its not like the new Macs. It'll keep its fan on and all that.
You could but shouldn't.
Not everything turns off like on the new Towers... they're two different beasts.
Cipher13
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That usb power button looked pretty neat, but I don't think it will solve Dark Half's problem. If he could USB power -on via USB then he'd do it with the USB keyboard. For just a few $$s it would be easy to make a little push-button that could plug into the ADB port and short the pin-4 to ground.
--Stephanie
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The Dark Half
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Thank for all the help guys!
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