Lets get electronical

Ok, now where was I?

Next I think I mounted the power outlet for the monitor and speakers.
I decided not to use a switched power strip like I did on my arcade builds, because of limited room in this juke box cabinet.
But I still wanted the monitor and speakers to turn on and off with the computer, so I mounted a metal duplex handy box to one side, and a 12 volt relay.
The relay has a 12 volt coil and 125 volt 10 amp contacts.
The computer will turn on the relay, which will turn on the duplex outlet mounted in the handy box.
The coil side of the relay will tie into 12 volts from the power supply.
I brought both the power cord and the power supply cord into the bottom of the handy box.
Out of the top of the handy box is a cable going to the contact side of the relay.
I wired the power cord wires and the power supply cord wires together.
The relay turns on the duplex outlet.
















If you want to know more about how I wired in the duplex outlet and relay, just drop me an email.

Next a wired in the CD drive and back fan. I used a 4 conductor cable to run between the power supply and the cd drive. I put molex plugs on each end, so that one end would plug into a power cable, and the other would plug into the cd drive.
I also tapped off the 12 volt wires on the cd drive side to supply power for the fan and the marquee lamp.

I then mounted the marquee. The plexi glass marquee installed from the back, then I used mirror clamps to hold it tightly in place.
I then mounted the monitor.
Here is a picture of the marquee, looking over the monitor:


















You can see the volume control pot attached to the marquee.
I got a PC speaker extension cable from Radio Shack. I cut the cable in the center and wired the pot into it. The cable has a male end that will plug into the computer, and a female end that the speakers will plug into. I turned the volume on the speakers to about 3/4 full volume, then the pot in the marquee adjusts the volume from 0 to 3/4 volume.
This setup will allow the speakers to be changed out with no extra modifications on the new speakers.
In the last pic you can also see the wires going to the marquee lamp.

Here is a picture of the hard drive mounted (hard to see but it is under the monitor and on the right side):
















Here is a picture with the computer motherboard installed and everything wired up:

I had to use a special long IDE cable to connect the Cd drive to the computer.