First thing’s first – the goodies we’ll be playing with:

All of these goodies are available at your local electronics store, and doing this mod shouldn’t cost you more than about R5! (ZAR)

The first step to this guide is simply soldering a piece of wire in to each of the LED’s “legs”. Before you do this, however, be sure to remember which of the legs is the longer one, and mark it. You’ll see why in a minute.

After you’ve done the soldering, be sure to heatshrink the parts that you’ve just soldered to prevent any short circuits. You can heat up the heatshrink using a heatgun, or mum’s hairdryer if you don’t have a heatgun.

Next up is the resistor. Since we’re going to be drawing the power for this LED from our PSU’s 5V line, we’ll need to drop the voltage a bit, otherwise we’re going to give the LED a heart attack. So, in order to do so, we’re going to solder a 75 ohm resistor onto the wire that’s soldered onto the LED’s LONGER leg.

Now you can heatshrink that up as well.

That last step of this guide is to sleeve the wires.

This is optional, of course, but if you’re going to be modding your case, you’ll want to sleeve the cables as well. Use the method I described in THIS GUIDE. In order to power this LED, you’ll want to connect the wire that has the resistor to any 5V wire (red) on your PSU, and the LED’s other wire to any ground wire (black) on your PSU. You can do this via a simple mod to a molex connector. Using this method, I’ve had great results.

Good Luck and Happy Modding!

God Bless

Ettienne