Raving Out Your Computer
Raving Out Your Computer
Raving Out Your Computer
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3/1/10
I just reorder some new parts to fix some of the problems that i have. Please don't try to work on this till I am finish solving some of the issues (Unless you
are a Level 10 Electrical Engineer.)
4/4/10
Well i figure out why this doesn't work as well. LED need a certain amount of milliamps to turn on. The current that comes out of the headphone jack is
WAY TO LOW. It bearly turn on the leds (so you can only see it while it is dark and the volume is MAX OUT).
So i guess i would need to make a amp before the connecting it into the transistor.
Also if you want to use the microphone you will need a PRE-amp.
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If you have a case window just like I do you sometimes wish you could turn off all those lights. I was like one those guys, but I added this other feature call the "RAVING
MOD".
This mod will show explain how to make your LEDs to turn off and on with the sound of your music (or games or anything that comes out of your audio out). You will also
learn how to COMPLETELY TURN OFF ALL YOUR LIGHTS.
Disclaimer 1 : My Grammar is AWFUL. So if you can help clarify something please go ahead and tell me.
Disclaimer 2 : I am not responsible for anything that happens to you or your computer. I am a ME not a EE.
Disclaimer 3 : Never open your Power Supply. I needed Fans to mod so I did and I learn my lesson.
Disclaimer 4 :Before I continue I just want to say that the circuit for this instrubable did not just came to me one day. A fellow student in my school gave me the idea that
a NPN Transistor will make the lights turn On and Off.
Materials
Computer Fan (Any size or type and no Leds are needed)
26 gauge wire (Black and some other color)
18 gauge wire (Black and some other color)
Zip Tie
Male and Female 4-pin molex
Male and Female pin molex
NPN transistor
Female Audio connector
2x Two way or 1x Three way switch
Audio Splitter
Male to Male 3.5mm audio cable
Or Microphone with 3.5mm male cable (needsMic Preamp )
Tools
Wire Cutters
Wire Strippers
Small Standard Screwdriver or something similar
Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Electric Tape
Soldering Iron and Solder
Brainz
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Image Notes Image Notes
1. Finish Product 1. Stock Wired.
2. At the end of this project there will be ONE 4-pin molex. You don't need a fan
that already has a 4-pin molex.
3. Aspire. Farly loud, but this inscrutable should give you a general idea for any
Brand or type of Fan.
4. I finish doing 8 out of 10 of my fans in March 2008. The last two fans are done
on this day.
The first ways is by having the wire wrap around the fan. This will probably happen if you don't have a fan that already had LEDs.
The second way is by a combination of wrapping around and going under the union bridge. The main reason why you will choice this option will be because of the canals
in the bridge that could be to small for the wire that you may use. If the bridge doesn't have the canal you might need to use the "first way". Also there must be a hole and
some space under that hole to fit a wire.
The third way is probably the rarest way to do it. The canal on the bridge must be big enough to fit two wires. If the 26 gauge wire is to big you might need to use a much
smaller gauge for it to work.
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1. Example of wrapping around. Way one
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1. Way 1 - Wrap around the wire.
2. Way 2 - Half wrap around and half inside.
3. Way 3 - All Inside the circle
4. MS paint is cheap
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1. Holes are too small to fit 2 26 gauge wire.
2. Enough to space to slide a 26 gauge wire.
3. Bridge - The canal in the bridge is TOO small to fit 2x 26 gauge wires.
Image Notes
1. Big enough holes for 2 wires
2. Small Canals for two 26 gauge wires
3. Enough space for a wire to fit.
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step 2: Removing the old LEDs
If you fan has LEDs you will need to remove them all. This could be a easy or AWFUL step. Some fans use a MASSIVE amount of glue to stick the LED to the fan. Use a
screwdriver to remove the LED and glue from the fan. Some fans are a light amount of glue so it wouldn't be that difficult in that case.
I accidentally slaughter a couple of LEDs while removing the LEDs. The manufactor wasn't so nice at telling me what brand and model the LEDs where. So I just replaced
with the ones in this site Super Bright Leds
Plug the fan into your computer and check if the fan still works with out having the leds connected.
If you are lucky the fan should work (and it might spin a BIT faster). Now you can remove the wires from the fan using APPROPIATE WAY.
If you SUPER UNLUCKY and your fans didn't spin you will need to soder a resister at the end of each wire. You can hide the resistor later with hot glue.
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1. Wire cutter/wire strippers 1. This is what you will need to do if your fan doesn't work after you remove the
2. Snipp LEDS.
3. Snap
4. Scissor out
5. Cut here
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1. Slide off the extra if you can. 1. Slide off like this
If you can't understand this digram look at the picture that I uploaded.
12v PN _ PN _ PN _ PN _ Ground
P = Positive Side
N = Negative side
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1. Possitive
2. Negative
3. Ground - In this instructables black will be ground
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4. In this instructables Red will be 12V
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1. Wikipidia
Do these over and over till you are done if you are doing "Way ONE"
Follow the next step if you are doing "Way TWO"
Ignore this step if you are doing "Way THREE"
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1. Place second LED 1. Solder in the POSITIVE TERMINAL
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1. Under this tab 1. Lift Here
2. From Here
3. To Here
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1. Solder positive terminal
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step 8: Finishing Up
Before you start soldering the Final two wires on the first and fourth (This last LED's terminal should be NEGATIVE {and the first LED should have the Positive terminal
empty}) you have to under that these wire are GOING TO BE LONG.
First determine how long you want to cables to be. (I made most of my LED connecting cables about 3' Feet.)
NOTE: The rest of the instruction will use 3 feet as reference. This measurement can be anything you want.
Measure out 3' feet of RED 26 gage wire (this MUST BE 26 gauge or THICKER) .
Solder this wire on the Positive terminal of the First LED that you place.
Measure out 3' feet of BLACK 26 gage wire (this MUST BE 26 gauge or THICKER) .how much you need to move a wire from the fourth LED to the First and add 3'
Feet.
Solder this BLACK wire on the GROUND terminal of the fourth LED.
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step 9: Gun it with GLUE
Glue each LED and solder point with LOTS of Glue.
Image Notes
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1. Thick Layer
First Cut 1Black and 1 Red (or any color) 18 GAUGE WIRE (IT MUST BE 18 or THICKER)
Get a MALE pin and place the small 26 Gauge wire under the big 18 Gauge wire inside the pin.
Close the pin.
Get a FEMALE pin and close it on the other end of the 18 Gauge wire.
Close the pin
Insert the NON-BLACK MALE pin on the 12V hole of the MALE Molex
This 12V hole is the one on the RIGHT when the Diagonal cuts on the top (look at the images)
The Black Male Pin goes to the left of the 12V hole
Same thing happens on the Female Pins and Molex but opposite sides.
Image Notes
1. 12V for Female
2. Ground for Female connector
3. TAB on top
4. Tab on top
If it doesn't work you might have not made the circuit correctly or the leds didn't like 3v. If you need help comment and I will.
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1. The two TWISTED wires that correlate to my LED cables
2. 30 minutes later when I placed this thing back my computer didn't turn on AT ALL.
3. The Date is wrong. Its not July its June.
The Transistor MUST BE NPN and it must be one that can support 12v or more and have the Heatsink in the back. Just like the one in the picture. The one I have is a
TIP31C
Also NEVER NEVER Connect the 12v and Ground cable together (the ones for the switches). DOUBLE check your switches cables.
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1. This is what is should look like if connected right.
2. One of the wires snapped.
3. This things are to connect to the switches.
4. NEVER NEVER NEVER connect this two wire together. Smoke will come out.
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1. Looks like a Transistor but is not
2. This is a Transistor and that is the HeatSink
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1.
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1. Switch One
2. Switch Two
3. This does nothing.
Now you have to options on how the Rave Circuit will obtain its audio. One can be straight from the Audio out of your computer (you will need a audio splitter) or you can
plug a microphone on the female connector.
(I have personally not tested the microphone idea YET. Will work on it as soon as I have my PSU working again)
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1. Into Rave Mod
Image Notes 2. Next to your speakers.
1. Female Molex 3. You don't need a big microphone like this. Also you DON'T connect this to the
2. Male Molex back of your computer you plug it in the Rave Mod.
3. Female Molex
4. Male Molex
5. Female Molex
6. Its a Fan
7. You can keep going. I have about 9 hook up to mine circuit
8. The Male one is the one with the Metal Pins
9. Female is the one with the Metal Pins with a Hole
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1. To Audio Out of Computer
2. To Speakers
3. To Rave Mod
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nuff said
nuff said =)
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dkfa says: Jul 19, 2009. 10:43 PM REPLY
maybe you could make the leds glow and fade....like its breathing! Now you can call your PC a MONSTER rig.
Just Awesome
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venootez says: May 25, 2009. 12:59 AM REPLY
thats cool. by the way, whats the name of the song?
now...i have a question about one of my switches... it has three prongs, all labeled: Power, ACC, and Ground...this is going to be
the first switch...which prongs do i connect the power to? btw...i got all of my supplies from radioshack if that helps...this is the
switch...
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3098835&numProdsPerPage=60&retainProdsInSession=1&y=13&x=10
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itstemo1 says: Mar 3, 2009. 1:00 PM REPLY
Actually Badzboyz89 might be right. ACC is the LED power. The LED is normally the one far away from the ground.
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bounty1012 says: Jun 21, 2009. 1:18 PM REPLY
lmfao this is pwnage! 5/5 faved.
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