Question How do I use case On button to switch PSU on? (No motherboard) ?

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Wanting to use the Case Power button to trigger PSU on and off. As far as I understand, the PSU must have its "Power On" pin shorted to ground permanently and The Case power on / off button is only a momentary switch. Is there a hack that can be done? fyi building a case air filter system.
 
Change the switch.
Any SPST would work.

Although, why are you using a computer PSU without the rest of the computer?
thanks for that , didn't really want to alter the power button on the case but will probably have to. and to answer your question, it's a budget build, no it's actually to supply cold air to the main PC, house the rooms lighting drivers and filter the rooms air AIO,
 
The switch in the psu is a hard rocker, it's a straight up SPST. ATX case switches are momentary, it's all they need to be to initiate bios.

Now you could rig up a relay to act as a SPST with the momentary, but that would require re-routing the psu's switch leads through the relay.
 
The switch in the psu is a hard rocker, it's a straight up SPST. ATX case switches are momentary, it's all they need to be to initiate bios.

Now you could rig up a relay to act as a SPST with the momentary, but that would require re-routing the psu's switch leads through the relay.
yeah I think this is going to work best . any idea of a relay switch? Just found an error on Fractals pin numbering of the 560w PSU, though it could be the Scandinavian rounding numbers up system.