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Title: Mod Deck lighting
Post by: silat on Fri, 12 August 2011, 04:08:00

Hi,

  Does anyone know how to do this ? Would you do a mod ? :)

                                    Lew

Title: Mod Deck lighting
Post by: The Solutor on Fri, 12 August 2011, 05:08:28

What do you mean for mod ?

Change the color ?

If this is the question, yes it's easy, just change the leds and few resistor (if needed) according to the schematic, available on the deck website.

Title: Mod Deck lighting
Post by: silat on Fri, 12 August 2011, 18:41:36

Easy for you to say.
I am not a soldering pro :)
Hence the reason I asked.

Title: Mod Deck lighting
Post by: Crazy9000 on Fri, 12 August 2011, 18:46:41

you're asking someone to do it for you then?

Title: Mod Deck lighting
Post by: kriminal on Fri, 12 August 2011, 19:29:46

soldering aint that hard... just practice on some derelict piece of circuit board..

Title: Mod Deck lighting
Post by: wompwomp on Fri, 12 August 2011, 20:02:18

Paint the LED's? Lol.

Title: Mod Deck lighting
Post by: wompwomp on Fri, 12 August 2011, 20:02:56

Scratch that, use a sharpie. It'll be easier.

Title: Mod Deck lighting
Post by: The Solutor on Fri, 12 August 2011, 22:39:16

Quote from: silat;397975

Easy for you to say.
I am not a soldering pro :)
Hence the reason I asked.

The wiki is full of faq, the forum is plenty thread about soldering, and you can find a lot of youtube videos.

Just practice a bit with an old PCB and you will see that isn't hard.

Title: Mod Deck lighting
Post by: The Solutor on Fri, 12 August 2011, 22:40:23

Quote from: wompwomp;398002

Paint the LED's? Lol.

Ysually I paint both leds and the underside of the keycaps to have more even and saturated colors.