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Title: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: 4dP on January 26, 2008, 12:32:25 AM

[youtube=425,350]gdvXOn91PtI[/youtube]

Materials

1. hot glue
2. powerboard
3. tape
4. Wired LED CyberPyrot's LED wiring Tut (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?topic=14529.0)

• Place tape over Powerboard hole
• Flip and apply hot glue over taped hole
• Place Wired LED in center of glue
• wire the led and enjoy

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: sakobatoneko on January 26, 2008, 10:45:12 AM

awesome thanks

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: 4dP on January 26, 2008, 01:51:15 PM

thx and the nice thing is its exactly the same for the dpad when its drilled

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: kairu67 on January 27, 2008, 06:09:45 PM

is it brighter when its connected? or does the hotglue make the led dimmer?

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: 4dP on January 27, 2008, 06:38:43 PM

Quote from: kairu67 on January 27, 2008, 06:09:45 PM

is it brighter when its connected? or does the hotglue make the led dimmer?

the hot glue diffuses the light and yes the led will be brighter when wired i was using my multimeter to power led

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: whitetop on February 01, 2008, 08:55:37 PM

looks good nice work

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: King Wolf 15 on February 08, 2008, 11:02:22 PM

Nice tutorial.

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: TW1NKY on February 19, 2008, 09:52:15 AM

Thats simple but sweet.
Would it matter that your led was faceing the side? Would your square button be brighter than the rest?

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: 4dP on February 19, 2008, 10:20:46 PM

i wouldn't think so but just try

if anyone does the same thing i did post some pics for others

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: cwn723 on February 21, 2008, 07:32:28 PM

think you can fit two leds in that?

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: 4dP on February 21, 2008, 10:26:36 PM

Quote from: cwn723 on February 21, 2008, 07:32:28 PM

think you can fit two leds in that?

yea i saw enough room and i like that idea it'll probably be brighter

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: benisbob on March 24, 2008, 11:45:28 AM

bit of a noob at this but where do you wire the leds to cant find any videos tell you where is you could email me a link to a video that would be great many thanks :tup:

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: GhoSt on March 24, 2008, 07:29:11 PM

great tut man

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: Luke on March 28, 2008, 02:19:44 AM

i like   this    tut

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: ProperBritish on March 28, 2008, 05:26:19 PM

are we wiring this to 3.6V on the power board?

Title: Re: Easy button lighting by 4dP
Post by: 4dP on March 28, 2008, 05:43:41 PM

Quote from: ProperBritish on March 28, 2008, 05:26:19 PM

are we wiring this to 3.6V on the power board?

well its a normal led so it can be the powerboard or the 5v on the mobo