using the powerbar switch to turn on/off games - good or bad?

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using the powerbar switch to turn on/off games - good or bad?

I'm going to be moving my games around the basement; 3 of my cabs have a typical powerswitch on top of the cab, but the Neogeo and the SuperChase cabs dont have any power switch. At first I paired both of them together to a single powerbar, and I would use the switch on the bar to switch them on and off.

Now, i'm going to move my mk, ki and those two all together against the same wall, connected to the same powerbar. The power switch on top of the MK and KI cabs are going to be hard to reach without using a chair.

Would it be dangerous, or bad for the power supply to simply turn the powerswitches to the 'ON' position and control the current at the powerbar level? This way I could switch on all 4 machines at once?
 
If you turn them all on at once with a single switch power strip, it won't affect the individual games' power supplies. It *might* be a problem for your circuit though depending on what games are plugged in and what type of circuit they're plugged into. If the load on powerup is too big, they'll trip the circuit breaker. Using a power strip with individual switches avoids that issue. Or you could upgrade the circuit that they're on.
 
Sam Flynn throws a breaker box switch to turn all of the family arcade games on at one shot so, I would have to think yours would be OK by using a similar method :D
 
I use this to control most of my wall of Williams cabinets. http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-BG108000-04-Conserve-Energy-Saving/dp/B001GQ2W6W

Williams machines have the power switches at the upper left corner at the back of the machine (when attempting to access them from the front). Which makes them almost impossible to get to when they are in a row, unless you stand on a chair or step ladder.

I plug the two that have accessible switches into the 2 "always on" sockets and the other four into the remote controlled switches and have not had any problems powering them on. I hit the remote, wait for the the first 4 to start up and then flip the switches on the other two.

If I ever set things up with two rows, I'll probably just get two of them that are on the same channel so I can kick all of the remote ones in both rows at the same time.

ken
 
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