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| rlemmon:
What's the easiest way to light a trackball ? I'm a bit nervous about screwing up the wiring in my PC. |
| fatfingers:
--- Quote from: rlemmon on December 30, 2006, 04:44:12 pm ---What's the easiest way to light a trackball ? I'm a bit nervous about screwing up the wiring in my PC. --- End quote --- Then I should think you would need one of these (for power) and these (for lighting). |
| ahofle:
--- Quote from: fatfingers on December 30, 2006, 04:52:12 pm --- --- Quote from: rlemmon on December 30, 2006, 04:44:12 pm ---What's the easiest way to light a trackball ? I'm a bit nervous about screwing up the wiring in my PC. --- End quote --- Then I should think you would need one of these (for power) and these (for lighting). --- End quote --- You really don't even need the powermite. Just connect a couple wires to a spare 5V molex from your motherboard and then run them to the litemite. They are usually the red and black wires on the 4 port connector. Use a volt meter just to be sure though. I just got my lightmite installed last night. It rocks. |
| TOK:
I got 12v automotive LED's at Pep Boys and wired them directly to a spare 12v harness on my PC power supply. I also had a spare female end so I cut the leads and made it easy to just unplug. No dicking with resistors or adapters. I used 3 and they've been burning bright for over a year. Total cost was under $10. |
| fatfingers:
--- Quote from: ahofle on December 30, 2006, 06:26:20 pm --- --- Quote from: fatfingers on December 30, 2006, 04:52:12 pm --- --- Quote from: rlemmon on December 30, 2006, 04:44:12 pm ---What's the easiest way to light a trackball ? I'm a bit nervous about screwing up the wiring in my PC. --- End quote --- Then I should think you would need one of these (for power) and these (for lighting). --- End quote --- You really don't even need the powermite. Just connect a couple wires to a spare 5V molex from your motherboard and then run them to the litemite. They are usually the red and black wires on the 4 port connector. Use a volt meter just to be sure though. I just got my lightmite installed last night. It rocks. --- End quote --- I agree he doesn't NEED the powermite, but since he seemed nervous about power issues, this seemed like the easiest way. |
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