Hello everyone, I've wired everything on my projector except my mogul base and power outlet


I have this mogul base from westlake hardware:
http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.j...chId=5522090625

And I can't figure out which side the hot goes on and the Common, any help would be appreciated!


and Also, I have a PC Style power outlet I pulled out of a junk powersupply, and was wondering how it was supposed to be wired, I know the lower pin is the ground, but what side does my 120v and Common go to?




Backview (again sorry no picture):

-----??> I I <----??
I <---Ground


LoL sorry can't snap a picture because the good old digital camera's batties died, oh and do I wire the 120v to the power on the switch?


The LED switch I got from radio shack has 3 pins in the back, one for power, ground, and load, what do I do w/ the load switch?

Thanks guys!

standard config is when ground is facing down (according to a socket I'm holding in my hands)

Neutral(left) Hot/Live(right)
Ground(middle)


Is the switch lighted - usually a switch (DPST) has 2 hot (the switch interupts the flow) and the common (usually middle) is the neutral (common) so that some electricity flows thu to illuminate the light

Dave

yeah, the switch is lighted, it has a ground (left) Load (middle) and power (right)


Right now I have the Hot from the plug; plugged into the power of the switch which goes to the ballast, thats about as far as I am right now, Any suggestions?


And where does the Neutral on the plug go to? I take it the common on the ballast?


and Oh yeah, the Ground on the switch what should I do w/ that? just ground it to an L bracket?

Sorry for the double, I decided not to use the PC Style Power Supply and am just going to run a cable going out of the box into the wall, I still can't figure out how to wire this switch, its driving me nuts!

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...rentPage=search

There it is it's from radioshack

In that picture the ground is on top, load in the middle, and power on bottom, anyone that would know how to wire that to a simple wall cord please post! The rest of the wiring is done (except fans which i'll work on after I get brackets in place)

thats a SPST single pole single throw, you need a DPST double pole single throw, two circuts in one switch. or you could get another one of those, this way one would turn on the fan and LCD and send power to the other for the lamp. also the outside of the mogul is neutral (wht) the center is Hot (blk). so wiring would be from the power cord blk to the fuse to the power switch to the lamp switch neutral to neutral (wht), ground to ground(green) maybe this will help

I'm going back to my original posting on using a switch.... an illuminated SPST switch usually has 2 live and a common in the middle...

A switch's purpose is to interupt the flow of electricity (live)

Here are a couple of quick drawings...

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regular SPST switch

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illuminated SPST switch

Dave