gamecube controller ports

LyingWake · Post by **LyingWake** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:36 pm

thing is, they are no longer working. i need to put a resistor on. thats what it looked like when i did it and it was working at first.

HomerCIDAL · Post by **HomerCIDAL** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:38 pm

Check your ground. That is usually the problem when installing LEDs in controller ports. Otherwise...very nice job!

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:36 pm

Very nice work, Lyingwake!!! I am jealous...I soo wannna do that mod to both of my cubes, but I'm afraid I'd f them up.

LyingWake · Post by **LyingWake** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:06 am

Smiley wrote:Very nice work, Lyingwake!!! I am jealous...I soo wannna do that mod to both of my cubes, but I'm afraid I'd f them up.

I wouldn't even be scared of doing it. The ONLY thing you do to the cube is solder the positive and negative legs to the cube.

I soldered them to the bottom of my psu thing and the lights stayed on when the cube wasnt turned on. i need to splice either than fan's or the power source to the mobo's wires somehow and get it so the power is ran only when the cube is turned on.

i also need to put in a resistor cause the damn current it too high so it keeps blowing the first led.

LyingWake · Post by **LyingWake** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:45 am

i dont know what it is but i cant stop comming to these forums...

anyway i took some quick photos while i was working on the controller leds. i remembers i had some resistors when my 10-pk of 3mm leds i bought on ebay awhile back, so i used one. didn't proove to work out as good as i hoped.

i took the cover off with a $15 screwdriver and gamebit from ebay. before i remembered i should take pictures, i soldered a resistor onto the positive side of my series of leds.

now i strip the wires to the silver stuff on the 12v fan

now its striped.

i solder the positive side of the series on the grey wire and negitive to the black wire - the results we not pretty:

semicolo · Post by **semicolo** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:59 am

you should tie leds in parallel two by two, I don't know the voltage of your leds, I read 3.4V for blue leds @ 12mA.
So if you've got two groups in parallel of two leds in serie, it needs 24mA @ 6.8V
so you need a 220 Ohms resistor (1/4W is ok).

semicolo · Post by **semicolo** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:03 pm

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LyingWake · Post by **LyingWake** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:42 pm

Say I keep my current series, which is a series of 4 LEDs. I don't doubt you about blue LEDs being 3.4v, but I believe when I bought these small 3mm blue LEDs, they were marked as 3.3v (typical voltage is 3.5v) at 20mA each.

Say I do keep my setup - what ohm resistor would you figure should work nicely? The resistor I used simply stated that they work for 12v and not much else.

EDIT: I got an e-mail from the seller. The resistor I used was a 470ohm 1/4w resistor.

semicolo · Post by **semicolo** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:40 am

you mean for just one led you'd use a 470 ohms resistor from a 12V supply ?

The 3.4V was just an example, it depends from the manufacturer.

LyingWake · Post by **LyingWake** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:02 pm

semicolo wrote:you mean for just one led you'd use a 470 ohms resistor from a 12V supply ?

The 3.4V was just an example, it depends from the manufacturer.

The resistor I used (shown in the pictures) was a 470ohm resistor (lol).

semicolo · Post by **semicolo** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:03 pm

you can't have four leds of 3.3V powered by a 12V supply (3.3 * 4 = 13.2V)
That's simple : tie the leds two by two and use a 270 ohms resistor for each group of 2 leds.

semicolo · Post by **semicolo** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:16 am

something like this :

LyingWake · Post by **LyingWake** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:33 pm

That'll do 'er.