vacuum switch

[Jody Ake]

is there a way to hook up my shop vac so it turns on and turns off with the router ?

[tlempicke]

is there a way to hook up my shop vac so it turns on and turns off with the router ?

In my case I had a set of dry points on the relay that turns the spindle on and off. There is a very simple circuit on the Shopbot website showing how to use one of the outputs on the shopbot board to do this.

I connected the points (normally open) to a 24 volt transformer (ebay) and an air conditioning contactor (ebay - six bucks) and bingo my dust collection goes off and on with the spindle.

Another really easy way to to it is to wire a 24 volt relay in parallel with the router. Put that output to a contactor and you have it.

[curtiss]

I wired up a 15 amp switch on the front side of the bot to a 15 amp outlet on the far side of the bot.

It will turn on and off whatever is plugged into it... should outlast about 6 computers.