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Title: Wiring LEDs with Minipac and harness?
Post by: korbitz on February 15, 2010, 03:12:44 pm

Okay read some threads about people adding LEDs to their minipac but cant find any posts about how it is done.

Currently i am using the minipac with the harness, i also have a cpl LEDs kicking about and would like to make a use out of them.

Any help would be appreciated

p.s. my wiring skills aren't the greatest so non-layman terms would be appreciated

Title: Re: Wiring LEDs with Minipac and harness?
Post by: BobA on February 15, 2010, 04:35:04 pm

I think it depends on which minipac you have.  The early ones had a header that was like the one on the ipac for keyboard leds.  Looking at the new wiring diagram I do not see this header on the newer minipacs.

Title: Re: Wiring LEDs with Minipac and harness?
Post by: korbitz on February 15, 2010, 05:04:02 pm

The version i have isn't the same as the one displayed on the website, it has a row of 9 pins in 2's going vertically as opposed to horizontally for the harness.

So are these pins used as keyboard LEDs? with the diagram i got with the board, there was nothing on the diagram about these pins.

Title: Re: Wiring LEDs with Minipac and harness?
Post by: BobA on February 15, 2010, 05:36:43 pm

I think the old minipac header was the same as the one on the ipac. 

Title: Re: Wiring LEDs with Minipac and harness?
Post by: surface tension on February 15, 2010, 05:48:04 pm

If you want to run LEDs from the minipac, just use the 5V with a resistor. There are 3 x 5V connections on the new one but it doesn't have connections for keyboard LEDs.

I'm not sure how many you can get away with but you can certainly run a couple off it. I use one on the trackball.

Title: Re: Wiring LEDs with Minipac and harness?
Post by: BobA on February 15, 2010, 06:37:55 pm

I think he is trying to get the keyboard harness working not just power to the LEDs