Wiring Gamecube LEDs?

[zack]

Well the size could always be smaller and the screen could always be thinner, but I think my choice in a screen is about as good as it gets. Not to mention it was reasonably cheap and from a trusted site like eBay. Hopefully my gamecube portable goes well. Right now I'm just waiting for it to arrive. Darn Chinese postal service. Wish me luck on my project. It is my first portable, ya know.

 

[ryanmccaldwell]

Hey guys, so I have two projects going right now. One is my portable Gamecube which I will work on more when I get the right parts, and the other is my original Gamecube which I will be slightly modifying to look cooler. I'm changing the color of the Gamecube's LED, wiring the LEDs from the installed Xeno GC to the outside, giving it a transparent window, and adding LED's to the interior of the disc drive area. Anyways, my question is about the LEDs I'm adding to the disc drive area. I have the LED's physically installed, but where do I wire them? Is there a recommended spot on the Gamecube that can supply about 3 volts for the LEDs?

By the way, here's a picture. It's looking pretty cool!

I dig this mod a lot, and I have been moving from painting consoles into led mods, added fans, etc. for cosmetics recently. I have been trying to get 4 controller port leds installed in my gamecube and I have blows 2 power bricks and a fair amount of leds in the process. I finally got fed up with guessing and I did the math for my full circuit and when I added the resistors and wired everything in, only 2 leds received power and it wasn't enough to make them very bright. I am running power off of the power supply for the fan. Since this thread has been up for a while, do you have any lessons learned from experience that could help me finish this project without wasting any more resources?