Take the pre-amp's power cord and plug it into the wall outlet. Then take the ACE's skinny cord and plug it into a switched outlet on the pre-amp. Turn all switches to "on" except the pre-amp. Now when you turn the pre-amp on, the ACE will detect voltage in its skinny cord, come alive, and turn on all the other accessories. 10 seconds later it will turn the amplifier on. When shutting down, flip the pre-amp switch to off and the voltage to the ACE's skinny cord drops and tells the ACE to go to "off" mode. As mentioned before, this turns the amps off immediately and the accessories 30 seconds later. Alternatively you could plug the ACE's skinny cord into a switched wall outlet or switched power strip and that would be the way to tell it to power up and down (like, if you had all the other equipment on a high or low shelf, behind a screen, or other inconvenient place).
