Power and reset buttons

LePhuronn

LePhuronn

LePhuronn

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I'm being a total dumbass at the moment so please forgive my idiocy.

I'll be making a custom front panel for a Mini ITX build soon and I'll be putting in my own power and reset buttons.

What the hell am I supposed to be buying? I would presume the power button is a push-to-make button, but what would the reset button be? Push-to-make or push-to-break?
 
Cheers peeps!

I was sure the power was PTM because I've jumped the pins with a screwdriver many times before, but I'm being THAT thick at the moment it didn't even occur to me that the computer still runs with nothing connected to the reset pins which automatically means reset is PTM too!

D'oh!

Thanks for clarifying this for me though.

@Borden: yes, they are very nice although at this moment I'm not 100% sure exactly what I'll be doing design-wise. I'll probably be posting a build log and pics in the SFF and Case sections though.
 
On a related but massive tangent, has anybody seen a double-pole double-throw switch for 3 inputs/outpus points at once? Would that be a 6 pole double throw? Been a very long time since I did electronics lol

I might go and post in Case Central too as it's sort of a modding question.
 
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Yeah, sorry, I want to double-throw 3 inputs - I've just edited my post.

I'm going to build a dirty switch box for 5.1 sound so I don't have to keep switching the plugs between my headset and my speakers. I found a cool instructable to do it, but the guy's using 3 DPDT switches to do each input individually, and I want to do all 3 inputs in one go.

I'll go post on Case Central.
 
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