Installing Led's in psp

[EvilNeverDies]

Well I'm going for the shoulder button led mod (the one whereby you hold them down and the led is on and when you release there off) and I was wondering do you solder the resistor directly to the smt led? so it goes -----[=][LED]--------? obviously with the microswitch further down the line
also is there a tutorial about putting leds in the psp for lighting up a psp jewel?
if not does anyone have a diagram of where I would get my + and - outputs from?

[glenng82]

for + & - points look at the sound mod tut theres a pic there
what kind of leds

[EvilNeverDies]

thanks and ultra bright blue smt's

EDIT: I cant find the one your on about have you got a link?

[glenng82]

thats cool im puttin red/white in mine maybe others
www.acidmods.com/Wiki/tiki-index.php?page=PSP%20Sound%20Mod[url=http://]]]

[EvilNeverDies]

If i strip some single core wire and solder it to those 2 points, could I then attach the leds to the soldered wire and then i would have a larger area to solder to? also would they still be in parallel? im thinking of having aobut 4 led's but maybe more inthe future and I dont want to have to keep going searching for points

[T3KN1K4L]

Parallel is the most advised way to wire multiple LEDs into the PSP.

[EvilNeverDies]

I know there supposed to go in parallel, just pointing it out as a viable solution to soldering lots of led's to 1 poer output/input

[Blazinkaos]

For the on/off trigger button go on search and search trigger mod you should find what your looking for..

[EvilNeverDies]

I know i've seen the tutorial, does anyone know what kind of microswitch he uses to activate the led?
I bought some but there wayy to big

[doug1O4231]

you mean dip switches google em just for reference heres a link to a site that sells them there are many different kinds 

[EvilNeverDies]

can you link me?
All I can find is ones with little sliders on that you have to slide across

[T3KN1K4L]

I know there supposed to go in parallel, just pointing it out as a viable solution to soldering lots of led's to 1 poer output/input

You completely misinterpreted my response.  Any multiple circuits that are run from the same power and ground points, are parallel.  So therefore making the wire add-ons as the single point for the rest of the circuits to branch off of is a parallel circuit, so yes, you can do that.

This is the wikipedia entry for DIP switches:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIP_switch

And here is the site I buy my components from, doing a search for DIP switch in Google will find you many other sites in which you can buy them:

http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp;jsessionid=BV2AFRBBBAODSCXDUZ1G13Q?N=1000030+115940&_requestid=379556

[EvilNeverDies]

the kind of switches I need though are for example, the kind of ones the tell the psp if there is a umd in the drive. Have you ever opened your imd drive and played with the little black lever switch? thats the one I need

[T3KN1K4L]

Ok, then search for Snap Action Microswitch, thats the closest thing I can think of to the UMD drive microswitches...

[Luke]

im confoosed