Is this a thing? Googling suggests not, but then I'm not entirely sure if I'm using the right terms. I have a home cinema subwoofer without a 12v trigger input, but I've made a trailing socket with a reed switch that takes from the 12v trigger from the receiver to make up for this. I'm planning a home cinema renovation for the near future and would like a slightly more elegant solution in a plug socket at the back of the room that's auto-switched with the amp. First thought was to simply use the reed switch I already had behind a new socket, but it's going on a block wall so there's limited room. Has anyone ever heard of a wall plate socket with something like this integrated? Answers on a postcard... or here if it's easier.
Are you talking about a wall mountef socket which turns itself on when it receives a 12 signal from the amp? Also by reed switch do you mean relay? If so, you could dig out a second hole in the wall beside the socket. You could put the relay in that hole and cover it off with a blanking plate. Then run the wiring through it into the socket beside it. Depending on how the trigger signal is sent you could modify the blanking plate with a connector. So you plug the trigger signal into the wall beside the socket it controls. For example you could have something like this with the relay behind it beside the socket which the relay controls. I don't know of any sockets with integrated controllers or relays
Yes to the first question. And by reed switch I mean a relay or anything else which could achieve the same effect, I'm not picky.
