Author Topic: Question about Exsisting mods (Read 4912 times)

Demonbrn · « **on:** January 20, 2009, 07:55:07 PM »

Hey all you modding savages! I've been thinking of installing a UMD jewel with some 0603 SMD UV LEDs that I had left over from my trigger mod. I did this by way of wireing the ground to the WLAN switch and bridging the switch itself and useing a 10ohm resistor to the memory light (I'm guessing conducter). It works great (thanks l0rdnic0 for the tutorial on this) by the way. My question being; what would be the best way to wire these in (I was thinking of the tube style LED's, but figured I would save some money and use the ones I already have)? Should I just connect all the wires to the same locations of do a diffrent scheme? I was given this site http://www.lexicongfx.net (Frosthax from PSPmod.com got his from here, and said it was a great price $22 with vectoring) as a place to get the custom jewel and was thinking of this as the design

How much of the detail would be lost through the vectoring process? Ok, I think I've asked enough here. Thanks in advance guys, the help is always appreciated. If you know of a tutorial (or few) that answers most if not all of these questions (I looked, but didn't come up with much) would love to see them, thanks again guys!

Brandon

Slim Hacker · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2009, 10:01:52 PM »

you wont get a jewl from that site cause thats a grafics design site run by VoX
he might sell jewls(but i doubt it.)

Demonbrn · « **Reply #2 on:** January 20, 2009, 10:06:09 PM »

This guy recomended it http://www.pspmod.com/forums/psp-general/45499-jewel-mod-showcase.html
appearntly he got his from there. I'll go where ever, just as long as it's decent priced and good quality =)

Slim Hacker · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2009, 10:21:38 PM »

here
you gotta get it right theyr running on his server but its not lexicongfx its shattered vectors.

also the only diff between the wifi switch and not is bout 3 solder spots the wifi switch just takes 2 extra wires

Demonbrn · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2009, 10:27:39 PM »

I see, thanks for pointing that out Slim!

Slim Hacker · « **Reply #5 on:** January 20, 2009, 10:37:38 PM »

ok to light up the jewl you need the 0603 leds
you just wire it up carefully
just wait till tomorow till the REAL modders are on and can help
right now i have a hole in the back of my psp that i cut for a jewl but then i bought a ps3 instead

Demonbrn · « **Reply #6 on:** January 20, 2009, 10:43:09 PM »

Lol, sounds good, thanks for the advice. I'm not gonna cut anything till I figure out a solid method. I saw a 5 part tutorial on Youtube (by grandpasmurf I think) that uses a cutting wheel, dremal tool, and sandpaper. My only concern with this method is the heat generated by the cutter and dremal warping the plastic. And as for the LEDs, should they have idividual wireing, or is there a way to chain 2 or 4 together?

Slim Hacker · « **Reply #7 on:** January 20, 2009, 10:48:04 PM »

you can wire it all to 1 wire just make little peices of wire from the leds to the main wire you use.
also i'm not saying your not a real modder i cant mod worth crap so thats what i was saying.

Demonbrn · « **Reply #8 on:** January 21, 2009, 06:07:17 AM »

Lol, no offense taken. I've probably done the easiest mod available by reading and asking many questions, so I don't consider my a real modder

EDIT:I'm haveing a hard time thinking of a way to wire the 4 led's together. Only way I can really think of is individually linking each one to a single wire (one for the diode and one for ground). But I would 8 wires floating around in my UMD door. Is there an actuall schematic around for this, or a picture of someone that has done it (not of the outside, but the inside view) so I can get an idea of how to do this? Thanks much (sorry for double post)

Brandon

Demonbrn · « **Reply #9 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:29:46 PM »

What's the best Glue to use for this project by the way? Been looking for awhile (everywhere) and no one seems to elaberate on that.

Demonbrn · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2009, 05:19:03 PM »

DarkShot · « **Reply #11 on:** February 21, 2009, 07:40:12 PM »

That looks really nice.

Sweet work dude.

Got any pics of your full psp?

bustinthejustin · « **Reply #12 on:** February 21, 2009, 09:39:00 PM »

Whoa, very nice!!!

pspupgrade · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2009, 12:16:16 AM »

Now tht must be the nicest jewel I've ever seen

Looks great in UV too. Ooh, imagine that in red!
Nice work!

Demonbrn · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2009, 08:20:37 AM »

Here is a back full view, kinda crappy quality though, lol. I had to make the vector for this image, Ken's computer from shattered mods had crashed. I got the spade from a deck of cards called 'Tragic Royalty', the ace of spades has this on it, I did a last minute addition of my initials as a personal touch. Glad you guys like it =)

Brandon

Demonbrn · « **Reply #15 on:** February 27, 2009, 09:27:25 PM »

Hate to double post again, but I don't believe this shows up when I edit a previous post...

I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem, I might need to adjust the locations of my wires (butted them around the bottom of the jewel). I can't seem to get the UMD's in, it's not a huge problem at the moment (all my games have been backed up into ISO's (no, not pirated, or returned after)) but if I buy a new game, I'm kinda screwed. Is this somthing that happens with this mod (which I should have asked) or is it my layout at the moment?

Thanks guys

Brandon

pranav41 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2009, 12:08:40 AM »

its possibly ur layout , cuz i've seen vids , of 4dp , jumbo , al of them test the umd , with games , so .....u can ask them for help , probably ask them for a pic or....sumfin

anyways u should probably think of adding an internal photofast , that would really top it all off !!

Demonbrn · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2009, 12:39:05 AM »

Alright, I'm gonna have to google the crap out of 'internal photofast' because I have no Idea what that is, lol!

bustinthejustin · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2009, 05:46:39 PM »

lol

Go to the psp tutorials section, slim, and there should be a tut along the lines of "internal cr-3100 mod tutorial" or something. Also, it's probably the routing of your wires. Try to get them as flush to the door as possible, and use just enough hot glue to keep them attached to the door.

Demonbrn · « **Reply #19 on:** March 01, 2009, 02:33:46 PM »

That does look good, but with this new mod, I don't know if I'll be able to fit it in there. Would be awesome to reduce everything I have into a single storage unit.

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Author Topic: Question about Exsisting mods (Read 4912 times)