Case Mod question..
 

I'm thinking off doing a case mod for the comp in my room. Where I might leave the comp on throughout the night. And the Lights and LED's might be a little annoying. Is there anything that I can use to turn them off eg a switch?? Can you reply with some advice or links or anything else??

Ta

Well, you could splice into them all and run it to a rado shack simple on/off switch. It'd probably be quite a pain to do though.

Hmm...Either that or you run all of the lights off of a secondary power source (something other than the comp's power supply) that you can just turn off without shutting down the computer.

It's a good idea, cause the amount of light at night made me decide not to do any cool mods like that. My room gets very hot, so I hooked up a huge fan to the case (the kind they use in data center cabinets). That was easy though, since it wires straight into a power outlet :)

I would go with a secondary power source. This way you can alter it's wiring, instead of messing with the wires on all the mod lights/etc. Just in case you want to sell them later. Depending on how many things you're hooking up, you can probably find an a/c adapter or some other transformer that u can sacrifice to wire it up.

Be careful though, electricity is dangerous! And it might short out all your cool mods.

lot of work just adding a switch in series? wow guess u dont do a lot of mods? now making ur own rheo bus is hard.... the 12 v that a pc outputs to ts lines u wont even feel thru ur skin unless u stick it on ur tounge... now the 200v capacters in ur psu will bite they threw me 5 feet acrossed my room... if u have a spare ATX power supply get some wire and make a jumper from the green wire to any ground wire [black] and u can use a power supply w/o a mother board plugged into it... when i get my case done ill let you pplz see it....if u or ne one else needs help with pc mods or circutry ill gladly help you on aim Brian51487

electrical tape

Go to Radio Shack and pick up a cheap switch, then drill a hole for it in an empty drivebay cover. That's the same set-up I have and it works fine.

Also, depending on where you get the lights from some will come pre-wired with a switch. All you have to do is set up a place for the switch. The light I ordered, with the switch, will show up tomorrow.

mine 2 dhs 3 ccfl's come in tomorrow and a lot of other things :-d

Make a baybus, search google for it and you'll find many pages on making them, basicly just a bunch of on/off switches in a spare bay cover, a pain to wire but worth it in th end. Can control lights ,fans and so forth, if you do it right you can even control the fans speed.

yah instead of having switches put in some poetntiometers