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[TuT] How to add, LED's to a xbox 360 controller
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Add LEDs to your 360 Controller
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Tools- Variable temp soldering station or 15watt iron
Hot Glue Gun
Phillips #1
wire stripper
X-acto knife with #11 blade and old style aluminum handle
Drill with 17/64 bit
Plyers
Supplies-.22 60/40 rosin core solder
Surface Mount LED's
Hot Glue
30 AWG wire
Resistor
Replacing the Surface Mount LED's With the circuit board exposed we can get down to the detail. You will need to remove four LED's they can be found around the upper center of the PCB. So yeah they are pretty dang small. If you have never wielded a soldering iron stop right now and put everything back how it was! If you are a fearless soldering god continue on...
Posted ImageTo get our first one done it required two of us. We setup with one of us on the tweezers and each with an iron. Irons set to 550 F we went to work, get a good grip on the LED and a quick touch to the solder from each side simultaneously did the trick. We then busted out the hot tweezers we have never had occasion to use before and found that a much easier option.
But if you are doing this alone we found the slickest way is to bathe the LED in solder and use the iron to wipe it away and then just deposit it on your sponge. Its important to clean up after, you do not want much solder on the pads during reinstallation. And of course, be careful not get any on the sensitive gray black pads in the area.
Posted ImageRe-installing is much easier and a one man job, like any other tiny SMT component line it up, tack one side and then the other. They do sort of have a tendency to float up and if there is too much solder left so don't be afraid to offer a little gentle down force while heating the solder. Note the polarity marks for the led and make sure to put them on the right direction.
Posted ImageOriginal Green
Posted ImageBlue
Posted ImageRed
Lighting the Dome- To get the dome illuminated we tried several variations, one LED, two LED's, but ended up going with four for full bling. With blue LED's, 4 in parallel a 22 Ohm resistor is connected to all positive legs and the resistor is connected to the positive source. All negative legs (short ones) are connected to ground. When using 4 red LED's a 47 Ohm resistor was used
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Tools- Variable temp soldering station or 15watt iron
Hot Glue Gun
Phillips #1
wire stripper
X-acto knife with #11 blade and old style aluminum handle
Drill with 17/64 bit
Plyers
Supplies-.22 60/40 rosin core solder
Surface Mount LED's
Hot Glue
30 AWG wire
Resistor
Replacing the Surface Mount LED's With the circuit board exposed we can get down to the detail. You will need to remove four LED's they can be found around the upper center of the PCB. So yeah they are pretty dang small. If you have never wielded a soldering iron stop right now and put everything back how it was! If you are a fearless soldering god continue on...
Posted ImageTo get our first one done it required two of us. We setup with one of us on the tweezers and each with an iron. Irons set to 550 F we went to work, get a good grip on the LED and a quick touch to the solder from each side simultaneously did the trick. We then busted out the hot tweezers we have never had occasion to use before and found that a much easier option.
But if you are doing this alone we found the slickest way is to bathe the LED in solder and use the iron to wipe it away and then just deposit it on your sponge. Its important to clean up after, you do not want much solder on the pads during reinstallation. And of course, be careful not get any on the sensitive gray black pads in the area.
Posted ImageRe-installing is much easier and a one man job, like any other tiny SMT component line it up, tack one side and then the other. They do sort of have a tendency to float up and if there is too much solder left so don't be afraid to offer a little gentle down force while heating the solder. Note the polarity marks for the led and make sure to put them on the right direction.
Posted ImageOriginal Green
Posted ImageBlue
Posted ImageRed
Lighting the Dome- To get the dome illuminated we tried several variations, one LED, two LED's, but ended up going with four for full bling. With blue LED's, 4 in parallel a 22 Ohm resistor is connected to all positive legs and the resistor is connected to the positive source. All negative legs (short ones) are connected to ground. When using 4 red LED's a 47 Ohm resistor was used
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you should make a video or post pics
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what kind of resistor do you need? (ohm/watts)
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he give creditvto llama man
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i did this forever ago. it was worth it. my controller is :idea: awesome.
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