Hi - first post
I'm building a piece of furniture (a table) that will have a DJ Mixer recessed into the top surface. This presents a few problems as the power switch for the mixer is on the rear panel-once recessed it won't be reachable.
The mixer is powered by a 12v power supply. So, my idea was to put an 'inline' rocker switch and extension cable between the mixer's power supply and the unit itself; the idea being that I could leave the power switch on the mixer pushed in e.g. 'on', then mount the inline switch on the desk itself, somewhere out of sight but reachable, enabling me to power the mixer on and off as normal.
On ordering the inline rocker switch and extension cable, I found that they use connectors of a different size to the male connector on the mixer's power supply (and it's female receptacle counterpart on the mixer's rear panel itself). Obviously something I should've double checked but didn't think to-I must say that outside of the industry standard/ typical audio connections, I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to connectors in general.
So now my only option is to find a short male to female cable that is the same size as the connectors that the mixer uses. Then chop the short male to female cable in half and solder the female side to the end of the rocker switch that the mixer's power supply needs to plug into, and solder the male end onto the end of the extension cable (coming from the other side of the rocker switch), so that it can plug into the mixer's receptacle. Really confusing way to do it but seems to be the only way I can think of doing it as all the rocker switches I've seen of this sort only use the 'wrong' size connectors for what I need.
Anyway, I'm having a really hard time finding what type/ size of connector the mixer's power supply uses. From measuring the diameter of the outside of the male power supply connector it seems to be around 5mm or 5.5mm. It's one of the connectors that has a very small, thin pin inside of it. Picture of mixer plug and rear panel dc receptacle (bottom left of rear panel) below:
MOD: smartened up your images, so that the connectors can be seen.E
Please check I have the correct order.
Whereas the rocker switch and extension cable connectors are much thicker but the other way around-the female connector has a big pin inside and the male connectors are just hollow (pictures below to illustrate this):
At this point all I know is that the inline switch and extension connectors are the '5.5mm x 2.1mm' size... So now any help to establish the size of the mixer female and male connectors would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
I'm building a piece of furniture (a table) that will have a DJ Mixer recessed into the top surface. This presents a few problems as the power switch for the mixer is on the rear panel-once recessed it won't be reachable.
The mixer is powered by a 12v power supply. So, my idea was to put an 'inline' rocker switch and extension cable between the mixer's power supply and the unit itself; the idea being that I could leave the power switch on the mixer pushed in e.g. 'on', then mount the inline switch on the desk itself, somewhere out of sight but reachable, enabling me to power the mixer on and off as normal.
On ordering the inline rocker switch and extension cable, I found that they use connectors of a different size to the male connector on the mixer's power supply (and it's female receptacle counterpart on the mixer's rear panel itself). Obviously something I should've double checked but didn't think to-I must say that outside of the industry standard/ typical audio connections, I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to connectors in general.
So now my only option is to find a short male to female cable that is the same size as the connectors that the mixer uses. Then chop the short male to female cable in half and solder the female side to the end of the rocker switch that the mixer's power supply needs to plug into, and solder the male end onto the end of the extension cable (coming from the other side of the rocker switch), so that it can plug into the mixer's receptacle. Really confusing way to do it but seems to be the only way I can think of doing it as all the rocker switches I've seen of this sort only use the 'wrong' size connectors for what I need.
Anyway, I'm having a really hard time finding what type/ size of connector the mixer's power supply uses. From measuring the diameter of the outside of the male power supply connector it seems to be around 5mm or 5.5mm. It's one of the connectors that has a very small, thin pin inside of it. Picture of mixer plug and rear panel dc receptacle (bottom left of rear panel) below:
MOD: smartened up your images, so that the connectors can be seen.E
Please check I have the correct order.
Whereas the rocker switch and extension cable connectors are much thicker but the other way around-the female connector has a big pin inside and the male connectors are just hollow (pictures below to illustrate this):
At this point all I know is that the inline switch and extension connectors are the '5.5mm x 2.1mm' size... So now any help to establish the size of the mixer female and male connectors would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
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