Help with installing a Timer on a Power Supply.

[James]

Can you post the instructions for the screens?
I would not be surprised if there was a pair of terminals provided for this purpose.
May well have a link of wire joining them at the moment, take out link, insert timer.

 

[Mammoth]

Good point concerning the links. but the thing is that when I asked for instructions from the HQ of the company which is outside my country. they were like any electrician will do it. we don't have instructions or schematics. It is a really hard situation, without IRL checking it will be hard to guess. cause there is lack of details of course.

 

[James]

do you have a picture of the nameplate?
or make and model of screen?
[automerge]1601576758[/automerge]

 

[Mammoth]

The producer of this screen is a really famous one called Ferrograph (Ferrograph - https://ferrograph.com/) based in the UK. that is all i know. other than that i have to check tomorrow.

 

[Mammoth]

Okay so, sorry for the delay. there is a war in our country. anyway. in Image 6 the white cable is the cable input plug. that's where the main electricity comes from and enters this confusing part.

 

[DPG]

Hope things improve for your country soon.

I would definitely switch the mains input with a suitable mains rated timer, rather than attempt to do anything further into the monitor circuitry.

 

[Mammoth]

Hum understandable. it is safer of course than to just mess with the inner circuit. It is better safe than sorry. But the job is to turn off only the monitor, not the PC. The PC is supposed to be ON 24/7. To keep updating to the Main servers. Plus once the pc is off I have to manually turn it back on. Which means I have to do a daily trip to the mall every day at 10 to turn it on.

 

[DPG]

Hum understandable. it is safer of course than to just mess with the inner circuit. It is better safe than sorry. But the job is to turn off only the monitor, not the PC. The PC is supposed to be ON 24/7. To keep updating to the Main servers. Plus once the pc is off I have to manually turn it back on. Which means I have to do a daily trip to the mall every day at 10 to turn it on.

Ah sorry, I misunderstood. So it's a combined pc and monitor then? So you can't shut the whole thing down. In that case I would be looking at power saving options in the operating system, or some power saving utility software maybe.

 

[Mammoth]

that is actually a really really nice idea. NICE dude. thank you! I should straight look into it.