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JesterDEV:

--- Quote from: walls83 on April 12, 2004, 05:16:14 pm ---I think I bought a trackball from the same guy Jest.  How is it?  I would also Like to know about wiring a light for it.

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Did you get it yet? Mine looks good with no scratches or anything. Sorry I took so long to reply. I had no idea there was this many posts. Could have sworn I subcribed to this thread..

Anyway, I went out and got a USB lighting system from circuit city for $15. It has two lights that you can change the color on via a small button on a power switch type thing. It works quite well. Depending on the color I chose it lights up either green, light blue, or bright blue. The other colors are not bright enough to do anything. The only problem is that I have to turn it on everytime I turn on my machine. I'm looking for a way to turn it on automatically, but havent really tried to hard yet.

hulkster:

--- Quote from: Zakk on April 20, 2004, 10:36:47 am ---Oh you are stuborn!  Yeah, they will work, but remember they only come with a tiny little power cord, so on all the ones I put into cabs I had to cut the wire and solder in an extention, since the pc plugs are usually at the bottom of the cab, and the panel is a fair distance away.  I think you can get hard drive power extensions though, but I've never seen one longer than 12 inches.

Go get that soldering iron :)


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actually, i have a soldering iron, came with a little computer tool kit thing i got.  never used it though obviously.  so uh, how do i go about this?

Zakk:

--- Quote from: hulkster081 on April 20, 2004, 02:46:27 pm ---
actually, i have a soldering iron, came with a little computer tool kit thing i got.  never used it though obviously.  so uh, how do i go about this?

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Take two wires, strip off the outer plastic sheath, twist them together, dip them in flux paste, hold the tip of the iron to the twisted wires, then touch the whole thing with the solder when it gets hot enough, or cheat like I used to and apply the solder to the tip, then heat it into the wires (not the right way, but it -will- work for a beginner!) :)

hulkster:
uh okay, sounds cool....whats flux paste?  put it in retard terms please ;D

Zakk:
Paste flux is awesome, wherever you put it, solder goes.  Here is a pic of a couple of different kinds of flux paste, and different thicknesses of solder.  Neat thing is... plumbing works the same way.  You put flux on the joint, heat it up, and then apply the solder, and it gets sucked into the joint wherever the flux is.

 So really, just get some of the paste, and it's 1-2-3. :)

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