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Replacing LEDs
Posted on: 11.10.2010 by Kasi Kiriakos
DJTT Please Please Please could you reverse engineer a few of the most common controllers (vci-100 etc) and give us a comprehensive guide on changing leds?
Id love to know exactly what the technical specification is for the current leds and whether i can change them to brighter ones with a different resistor etc.
The current info on the community s is flaky and while people specify sizes, most people are buying their leds blindly from ebay.
Some farnell part numbers wouldnt go a miss

I really want to be changing my leds when i install my arcade buttons, firmware chip (yes i'm installing it inside the box for good) and modify my jogwheels.
Ideally I don't want to go back inside my vci again unless something stops working.

Cheers guys, and please help!

Timmy.
Kasi Kiriakos
13.10.2010
Originally Posted by photojojo
I believe maybe you should start a little LED changing business.
Lets get me all the correct and accurate details first! Then maybe i'll do a few people's for cost.
Kasi Kiriakos
12.10.2010
Originally Posted by weltraumpapst
make sure to take many photos of this project.. seems interesting
I will try!
Tatum Ansaldo
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by TimmyWoo
Mostly life critical medical electronics...
...I hope you really are good then!
Kasi Kiriakos
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
I hope you're good at soldering then!
I've done it for a living for the past 7 years. Mostly life critical medical electronics... So yeah, i'm not bad :P
and thanks!
Tatum Ansaldo
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by TimmyWoo
Once i have an idea in my head, im pretty much unstoppable lol
Fair enough, I hope you're good at soldering then! Good luck!
Kasi Kiriakos
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
That's all very well, but is it worth the effort? I mean, I've done 2 FW upgrades and the second one took me about 10 minutes. it's only 8 screws to get full access. But hell, if that's what you want to do, go for it!
Once i have an idea in my head, im pretty much unstoppable lol
Tatum Ansaldo
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by TimmyWoo
That's if your using the cable harness
I'm soldering it direct from board to board with a switch and serial socket out of the back panel. With all connectors removed, its just a thin little pcb that will happily sit on top of the other pcbs.
That's all very well, but is it worth the effort? I mean, I've done 2 FW upgrades and the second one took me about 10 minutes. it's only 8 screws to get full access. But hell, if that's what you want to do, go for it!
Kasi Kiriakos
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
There isn't space inside the VCI for the firmware chip to be there permanently, you have to remove a cable harness just to plug it in.
That's if your using the cable harness
I'm soldering it direct from board to board with a switch and serial socket out of the back panel. With all connectors removed, its just a thin little pcb that will happily sit on top of the other pcbs.

see this thread http://www.djranking s.com/community /sho...178#post167178
Tatum Ansaldo
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by TimmyWoo
firmware chip (yes i'm installing it inside the box for good)
There isn't space inside the VCI for the firmware chip to be there permanently, you have to remove a cable harness just to plug it in.
Kasi Kiriakos
11.10.2010		DJTT Please Please Please could you reverse engineer a few of the most common controllers (vci-100 etc) and give us a comprehensive guide on changing leds?
Id love to know exactly what the technical specification is for the current leds and whether i can change them to brighter ones with a different resistor etc.
The current info on the community s is flaky and while people specify sizes, most people are buying their leds blindly from ebay.
Some farnell part numbers wouldnt go a miss

I really want to be changing my leds when i install my arcade buttons, firmware chip (yes i'm installing it inside the box for good) and modify my jogwheels.
Ideally I don't want to go back inside my vci again unless something stops working.

Cheers guys, and please help!

Timmy.
Kasi Kiriakos
13.10.2010
Originally Posted by photojojo
I believe maybe you should start a little LED changing business.
Lets get me all the correct and accurate details first! Then maybe i'll do a few people's for cost.
Leeanna Ayla
12.10.2010		I believe maybe you should start a little LED changing business.
Kasi Kiriakos
12.10.2010
Originally Posted by weltraumpapst
make sure to take many photos of this project.. seems interesting
I will try!
robin loo
11.10.2010		make sure to take many photos of this project.. seems interesting
Kasi Kiriakos
11.10.2010		I've not killed anyone yet lol
But yeah I solder components worth many times more an entire vci-100 on a day to day basis. I specialise in through-hole PCB's and cable harnesses.
Tatum Ansaldo
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by TimmyWoo
Mostly life critical medical electronics...
...I hope you really are good then!
Kasi Kiriakos
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
I hope you're good at soldering then!
I've done it for a living for the past 7 years. Mostly life critical medical electronics... So yeah, i'm not bad :P
and thanks!
Tatum Ansaldo
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by TimmyWoo
Once i have an idea in my head, im pretty much unstoppable lol
Fair enough, I hope you're good at soldering then! Good luck!
Kasi Kiriakos
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
That's all very well, but is it worth the effort? I mean, I've done 2 FW upgrades and the second one took me about 10 minutes. it's only 8 screws to get full access. But hell, if that's what you want to do, go for it!
Once i have an idea in my head, im pretty much unstoppable lol
Tatum Ansaldo
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by TimmyWoo
That's if your using the cable harness
I'm soldering it direct from board to board with a switch and serial socket out of the back panel. With all connectors removed, its just a thin little pcb that will happily sit on top of the other pcbs.
That's all very well, but is it worth the effort? I mean, I've done 2 FW upgrades and the second one took me about 10 minutes. it's only 8 screws to get full access. But hell, if that's what you want to do, go for it!
Kasi Kiriakos
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
There isn't space inside the VCI for the firmware chip to be there permanently, you have to remove a cable harness just to plug it in.
That's if your using the cable harness
I'm soldering it direct from board to board with a switch and serial socket out of the back panel. With all connectors removed, its just a thin little pcb that will happily sit on top of the other pcbs.

see this thread http://www.djranking s.com/community /sho...178#post167178
Tatum Ansaldo
11.10.2010
Originally Posted by TimmyWoo
firmware chip (yes i'm installing it inside the box for good)
There isn't space inside the VCI for the firmware chip to be there permanently, you have to remove a cable harness just to plug it in.

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