Any way to change the colour of my LEDs?

[katushkin]

As some of you may or may not know, I have a KC 84 that I love. It currently has a white backlight and I would like to change it to red. I realise there was a Massdrop a while ago for LED covers but ehy didn't have red, only orange.

If anyone could give me any direction as to getting covers or some other type of non-modification way of doing it, that would be great. Otherwise I will just turn to my friend Margo Baggins and get him to do it for me

[IvanIvanovich]

If it has round top led you could get some of these led lens covers. Though, for as much as they cost you can get a bag of red led for less like these nice rectangle ones. I got some of those red led from this seller and they are a nice color. Keep in mind though, if replacing white with red the resistor value should be changed too.

[katushkin]

If it has round top led you could get some of these led lens covers. Though, for as much as they cost you can get a bag of red led for less like these nice rectangle ones. I got some of those red led from this seller and they are a nice color. Keep in mind though, if replacing white with red the resistor value should be changed too.

Yeah, this is what I thought. They did seem a bit overpriced for some little plastic covers. Thank you. I do have round LEDs, so would square ones fit?

Margo is pretty slick. I'm sure if I asked him to swap them out he would know exactly what he was doing

[C5Allroad]

Either keyboard covers or, soldering.. Which would be a pain to do. Those keyboard covers are great but really reduce the brightness.

[IvanIvanovich]

Yes those rectangle leds work perfectly. They are actually nice and are even less likely to interfere with keycaps than the common to find round leds that have a flange on the bottom which usually don't sit right inside the led recess in the switch top.