I've got 24 pachislos. The tangle of wires and outlet strips was a mess.

Here's some things I did to make it more manageable.

1. Like many of us here I use the Target Mudroom tables as stands. My machines tend to be grouped in clusters of 3. I leave the back out of one of the mudroom tables in each cluster - the one in front of, or closest to, the wall outlet. The outlet strip and the excess length of wire from each pachislo is now placed out of sight in the table.

2. Walking around the room, opening the table doors to turn on or off each outlet strip got old fast. So I used X10 appliance modules and can now turn them on and off by a remote control signal sent over the power line. See www.x10.com or www.smarthome.com for info on these modules.

3. Many pachislos put so much electrical noise on the power line that it interferes with the X10 modules. So once you turn on one cluster of machines you might not be able to turn on the next. Or you might be able to turn on machines, but once they are on, the AC noise prevents you from turning them off. If you run into this problem the solution is to use noise filters. Here's a link to the filters:

http://www.smarthome.com/1626.html

The filter goes after the X10 module and before the outlet strip. That is, it's wall outlet, X10 module, filter, then outlet strip with pachislos.

Because the body of a filter plugged directly into an X10 module prevents the X10 module from being plugged into a wall outlet you will need to use a short extension cord either between the wall outlet and the X10 module or between the X10 module and the filter. I use the short extension cords designed to plug wall wart power supplies into crowded outlet strips. Radioshack sells 2 wire versions but I like to use the 3 wire one. These can be found cheep at Cyberguys.com. They make them in different lengths. Here's a link:

http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/s...sp?T1=121+2550


So now my room looks pretty and my wife is happy :smt008