Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 208 Location: Minnesota XP: 2
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: 360 controller with 3mm blue leds
yep, i saw llamma beat me to replacing the leds in the controller, but he had to go buy some expensive surface mount leds... which also means a limited selection of color.
ive figured out how to replace the green surface mount leds with some 3mm ultrabright blue leds! and if i can do 3mm blue, that means it will be no problem for me to do the other 9 colors of 3mm leds that i stock
here is the controller before i opened it up:
the controllers come with 4 green surface mount leds under the light ring, you can see them in the closeup here:
of course who likes green anyway? isnt that just a bit boring and overdone? of course it is, so i found a way to remove them and replace them with 3mm ultrabright blue leds instead:
the install was difficult, as the surface mount leds are tiny and there is very little space available... the 3mm leds look HUGE in there. there was some other modification to the area around the ring, but i dont have pics of that part yet.
here are some pics of the controller reassembled and lit up with blue:
well its a start at least, but its only the beginning. those leds only all light up when its first plugged in or turned on (took some work to catch it with the camera before it shut back off) so the next step will be to add 4 more 3mm leds under the 360 button itself.... check back for updates in the next day or so!
for a full writeup and alot of HUGE hires pics check this page here! _________________________________________________________ .
Not bad man....look forward to seeing the rest of the controller....might even have to give it a shot once I read that tutorial ya posted...later. _________________________________________________________ Xbox V1.6
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Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 208 Location: Minnesota XP: 2
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject:
ok i updated that page from a summary to a full tutorial, so go back and see the full thing:
fh, as with the rest of my manuals, feel free to mirror
hey... you dont even have a 360 tutorials page yet... get on it you've got one to add to it now _________________________________________________________ .
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