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

[Nick2K4]

Hi,

Sorry to keep asking lots of questions but I'd like to ask for the help of people who have done this and succeeded without me doing it and blowing myself up (or my amiga)  :lol:

Anyway, I would like to know how I can wire my A1200 LED's up to my PC case. Does anybody have a guide similar to this one (preferably with pictures) that I used to wire my PSU correctly:

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/Amiga_Power_supplies/amiga_power_supplies.html

I'm assuming all I need to do is remove the LED's from the original circuit board and solder on the wires from the case LED's to where I removed the amiga LED's?

Thanks guys, all being well when / if I get everything working correctly I'll post the "Nick's Idiot Guide To A1200 Tower Building"  8-)

Nick

[Nick2K4]

This board is amazing because the replies are VERY fast and really helpful! I've been on some PC boards and you can wait days before people are able to reply to your messages lol.

I think I understand what you're saying but wouldn't I need a resistor to stop the LED's blowing or should they be OK?

[Nick2K4]

Thanks brian for your help and the picture that's helped me out a lot.

@ Pertinax

When you say you connect both of the floppy and hard drive outputs to one LED is that OK electronically? I might be thinking too practicle but if there is activity on both the floppy and the hard drive wont it push too much voltage through the resistor at once?

I might be off the mark as I'm not qualified in electronics or anything  :-(

This would be a better idea for me because my case is an ATX one and only has 2 LEDs for power and hard drive activity.

Nick

[Nick2K4]

blobrana wrote:
HUm,

or you could just hacksaw the old 1200 case and fit the `amiga` bit into a free slot in the PC case...


See!

It looks quite professional too...
Just use the old pc case cover as a template to cut around.

That looks pretty neat blobrana!

In the end I decided to use the circuit board that comes with the A1200. Just de-soldered the original LED's and wired them up to my case LED's.

Works like a charm  :-D

I only have 2 LED's on the case so ended up going with the power cable and hard drive cable connected. The floppies I'm using have their own lights on and work fine anyway.

Nick