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In <5q43kf$465@dove.qut.edu.au> hesslinm@pigeon.qut.edu.au (hessling mark) writes:

>Has anyone successfully added a switch to their ELC that turns off
>power to the monitor, but allows the machine itself to continue running ?

>I have an ELC that I usually access via a Linux box, and would like to
>know if a) it is possible to install a switch to turn off just the
>monitor and b) how easy/difficult was it.

The main problem with doing this is that you need to be able to switch
fairly large DC currents (several amps, perhaps more), and that's not
something that an off-the-shelf relay is usually able to do. Also, you'd be
switching about 4 different supply rails as well as 0 volts, so you'd need
to know the maximum possible surge current likely on all of those rails in
order to work out specs for the switching devices.

BTW, I've got an SLC here (to become an Xterminal) and I'd like to do the
same thing with it.

Regards,

Craig.
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