Remote Turn-on for ill-equipped hardware? (1 Viewer)

[Aaron D]

I am looking for something that will turn on my sub amp when I turn on my receiver. It seems that I read something about a year ago about this (I believe it was a product from Sears for shop tools that senses when you turn on one thing and turns another), but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Does anyone know what I'm looking for?

Thanks,
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[Pat]

Is this what you are looking for?
Make sure your receiver pulls enough current to trip the switch...I have heard that some won't trip it.

 

[Aaron D]

YES!! Thanks for finding it for me!!
It will be a nice addition to my addiction!
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[LewB]

Aaron:
I bought one of the Sears power controllers and plugged my receiver in to it. When the receiver was set to a low volume the switch would either chatter on/off or not turn on at all. I plugged a 3-way lamp into the switch and discovered that it would turn on only when the lamp was at the 100W setting or higher. I wound up using the 12v turn on signal line from my receiver to a Xantech outlet Xantech AC 1
The Sears switch is about $25 while the Xantech is about $100.

 

[GordonL]

Russound makes a 12v triggered outlet available here for $70
If you need more than 1 outlet, Niles makes the AC3 available here for $123
I'm sure you can find the Xantech for less than $100.

 

[Aaron D]

Hmmmm, some interesting options. Might have to re-think the Sears thing.

Thanks!!

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[Nathan_M]

The subject line of this thread is very funny. I was thinking you must be a lot more self-confident than I am to to admit your hardware was ill-equiped.

 

[Aaron D]

That's messed up!
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