Moon Patrol Power supply wiring help

thebman80

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I'm going to use a Moon Patrol Power supply I had lying around for my test station project. I'm having an issue though with the on and off wiring on the schematics. The white-red wire on the transformer location 8 and the white-blue at location 1 are the power switch. Now my question is do I have to put the Black-yellow wires locations 7 and 3 on the transformer to the White-red wire on the power switch and twist them all together so it works? I ask because those wires are for the inter lock safety switch and are connected to the White-red wire through a dotted line on the schematic.

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No, if you connect the Black-yellow and White-red wires together, you'll be shorting 120VAC. The dotted line on the interlock in the schematic just means that it switches both hot and neutral lines. (it's a DPST switch)

Take the White-red from pin 8 and connect it to one side of your power switch. Connect the other side of the switch to White-blue at pin 1. Then, take the Black-yellow from pin 7 and connect it (twist it together) to the Black-yellow at pin 3.
 
In the interest of SAFETY, STOP!

The on/off switch that you need should have 2 NO (Normally Open) and 2 COM (Common) lugs.

Wht-Red to NO #1
Blu to Com #1

Blk-Yel to NO #2
Yel to Com #2
 
So then I could basically just wire in two power switches and would have to have both in the on position for the thing to power on. Just needed to double check this before I moved ahead with this project spent the whole day cleaning this thing and installing it on to a new piece of wood. Tomorrow I hope to have a working test station by late afternoon. So far everything is coming together with out any issues this was the only part I was a little iffy on. Maybe I'll even have some sort of enclosure made up by the end of the day as well if everything keeps going as planed.
 
You can wirenut the neutrals together, and just switch the hot if you only want one switch.

The dashed line just shows that the switches are controlled together, not that they're electrically connected.
 
Ok seems simple enough either get a double pole single throw switch or wire the Black yellows together Pin 7 and 3. Should take me like 5 min got all the parts sitting there ready to go.
 
Ok finally got the thing to turn on only question now is that the black-gray for the marquee light which I have wired to my switcher and the purple-yellow wires put out 133V off the Transformer. The Switcher works fine off the voltage but with it being 133V will it mess up my monitor?
 
It may, or it may not. It really just depends on the monitor. You need to change the input voltage lugs on the iso and the power will come down to what you want. I don't have the scat in front of me right now, but I can look it up for you if you don't see it or understand what to do.
 
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