Wiring The LED's On An A1200 To A PC Case

[Brian]

Check the A1200 led cable and you'll see that there are 3 together, then the "key" (missing pin), and then a lone whire. The A1200 use a common ground (the single pin) and the other 3 whires are for each led.

Now check the leds crom your tower and you'll see that they are of the same kind but only in pairs (2 pins). That's because they don't use a common ground so each led got it's own ground.

Now lets say you want to hook up HD to the HD led, the Power led to the power led and the floppy led to lets say turbo led. Then what you would need is just to get a 5 pin connector (such as the one sitting on the A1200 led whire). Then you connect the colored whire from each of the leds to the tower to pin 1, 2 and 3 on the connector and then you connect all ground cables together and put them at pin 5.

I'll do a quick drawing for you... after i've posted this.

[Brian]

I've whired my leds up to the tower and have had no problems what so ever but you could add a small 1K resistor to be on the safe side.

You got a PM with the picture now I hope.

[Brian]

Ow and the picture don't say what whire is what led so hope this helps:

o--- Common Ground
o
o--- HDD Led
o--- FDD Led
o--- Power Led

[Brian]

No problem, glad to help where I can.

I don't know about two leds as one... but why not get another diod and place it at the diskdrive where it's activity led usually shine trough? I did this previous to getting a HD diskdrive in my tower and it worked well though the fitting of the led was a little tricky.

[Brian]

Heads up...

I've managed to burn two leds on the tower so it's obvious that a resistor is needed for the leds. I know I've used a 1K in the past but I have very small leds in this tower and they refuced to work with a 470ohm resistor but 270 worked like a charm.