I got my part from Corsair to replace my power switch on my case which is wearing. I've looked at the part and a few things come to mind. One, it'll be a pig to fit and two, it's a tiny micro switch that'll fail again in a few years time. This case is 6 years old and looks brand new. I'll have it probably another 10 if I live that long.
So I looked at the wiring and decided I could just replace the switch just as easily, if not easier and started looking around. As you do, I looked on Amazon and found emergency stop buttons for heavy machinery.
Not only do I love that you can buy life saving emergency equipment off Amazon, I love even more that they are available at less than a tenner and supposedly rated for 660V and 10A. These are often £40-80 for the main reason that thay have to be robust and fail safe. I've shattered the internals of an emergency stop switch before (adrenaline is a fun thing when someone is flying accross the room) and the thing still stayed off.
I love even more that these are advertised with a picture of two blokes in the pit of a lift shaft. You're working on lift where the cables are worth a few grand due to all the safety / quality checks and you spend a tenner on a stop button from Amazon....
Oh and one is pictured next to a CT scanner. Because your million quid CT scanner needs a ten quid emergency stop button for when you're all being irradiated.
The reviews are better. There's a guy who has fitted one to a lathe for a PAYING CUSTOMER. He's apparently quite happy. It's all fun and games until somebody loses an organ.
There's another review, two stars, stating "This is not an off switch". That being its only job, I dread to think what it would have had to do to get one star.
So, I'm thinking a three switch wall mounted panel. Emergency stop to turn the PC on, green to play Greta's "how DARE you" and red for the March of the Soviet Union.


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