LED Mods?

Is there any guides on adding LEDs inside a laptop to shine out through the vents and openings? I have tried to search a bit on the subject but everything seems very out dated. LEDs are highly efficient so they shouldn't even knock much off battery life. Anyone who has some resources on the subject, i would appreciate it.

 

wikipedia.org

howstuffworks.com

 

is this the new clever way of saying google.com? thanks a bunch.

 

He's right, though. LED's are very easy and Google would tell yo uin a heartbeat what to do.

Basically, find a accesible voltage source in your notebook, connect to one or more LED's in series and calculate an appropriate series resistor value and you're done.

 

I have googled it and wikipedia'd it but no guide talks about LED's in general. Its always something different which says use the USB as a power source. But in the new laptops the USB wont power up unless being used.

 

Go from the USB for power, but you need to make sure that you put resistors in your circuit lest you will burn out all of your LEDs very quickly. I'm not sure about the USB's only working if they are in use, but that doesn't sound far out... actually sounds kinda logical. I'm not sure of another power source that you would use.

 

Im pretty sure what I said is true, thats what I have read around atleast. The only other way is to either use the fans power but that would make them run slightly slower (maybe overheat the notebook if your on a high-end processor) or otherwise directly from the power source...battery.

What you could do for LED's is get a fan with lights one the same size as your notebooks that would work well. Try ebay Im sure you should find a lot.

 

There's always some spot where you can 'steal' power. My motherboard has a nice big solderpad with direct battery power. Just measure around a bit with a DMM on big caps

 

Yeah, but you don't want to start throwing solder around in places that you don't know what are.. lol. I guess it would just come down to your mother board and how its made. I'd sugest you put as much research into your mother board before you go ripping it apart and solding things here and there.

 

But then whats the fun of warranty ...j/k... I totally agree with syndrome.

 

I think your best bet is to connect some wires to a USB port. A USB port is 4.8v and that should be plenty for a few LED's...