Power LED connector issues

Feronix

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Hey guys!

As you may or may not know, I'm working on project Woodbox and I want to buy an anti-vandal switch for the front. That is all the front I/O that I need, the power switch, with integrated LED.

There's a small problem however. The front panel cables that I have are 2 pins for the motherboard connector attached to each other. Like so:

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Rather than what the previous case this motherboard was in had, with seperate plus and minus connectors:

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But the motherboards Power LED connectors are as follows (top left):

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So as you can see there is a blank connector in the middle, between the + and - pins. HOW DO I CONNECT MY POWER LED?

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
 
My first Idea would be to check if you can switch the conecctors. If I am not mistaken in the conneter there is a part on the metal you have to push in then you can pull it out. If you remove the plastic part of the connector, you could use the split ones from your old case.
 
1. Get a different plug/wire (you can lever up the little tabs and replace the blocks)
2. Bend the motherboard pins
3. Don't

JR
 
What about cutting the connector off, stripping the wires a bit and soldering them straight onto the motherboard pins?
 
What about cutting the connector off, stripping the wires a bit and soldering them straight onto the motherboard pins?

If you do that with both ends it will make things rather awkward when the case becomes part of your motherboard but of course it would work :)

JR
 
1) Remove pins from connector
2) Heatshrink them for cosmetics
3) Plug directly onto motherboard header pins
4) ???
5) Profit
 
I have a front panel switch with power/reset and HDD/Power LED built in, it's yours if you want it, brushed push switches mounted on a led back lit acrylic block with stand offs and screws.

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Cables are wrapped in electric tape but that's easily swapped for a nice braid and heat shrink. It's an option, yours if you want I can throw it in the post tomorrow.
 
If you do that with both ends it will make things rather awkward when the case becomes part of your motherboard but of course it would work :)

JR

So at least I can make it work if needs to! Thanks.

1) Remove pins from connector
2) Heatshrink them for cosmetics
3) Plug directly onto motherboard header pins
4) ???
5) Profit

I have a front panel switch with power/reset and HDD/Power LED built in, it's yours if you want it, brushed push switches mounted on a led back lit acrylic block with stand offs and screws.

Cables are wrapped in electric tape but that's easily swapped for a nice braid and heat shrink. It's an option, yours if you want I can throw it in the post tomorrow.

Thank you so much for the offer Wraith, but I'm going to give Davva's solution a try first tomorrow to see if that works! A new switch will probably be cheaper than shipping anyway, so I'd prefer if I can find a solution with the current cables, which there seems to be.

Thanks a lot though :)
 
strip wire and heat shrink straight to pins :D when removing you only waste a small heatshrink.

or you could just a thin copper wire and close circuit that way, plug wire to connector and other end around pin.

So many ways to do this, just depends how esthetic you want it to be :P
 
Don't give a shit about aesthetic tbh, it's a retro build ^_^

The motherboard is yellow, green RAM and GPU, bare OEM PSU cables, etc.



Thanks for all the help guys! I've removed the pins from the plastic connector and plugged them straight into the motherboard, should work fine that way. I'll order the switch some time tonight :)
 
Why not just remove the pins and pit in another 3 pin wide connector? seems a bit much to strip and resolder when it's literally a connector that's the issue ?

Failing that.. Exacto the fucker in half and hay presto
 
maplin sell single pin extensions which will save the need for you to solder or anything, i dont work there no more but i know their products quite well lol ... im sure its classed as jumper cables or something.
 
Feronix I think Phobya sell the proper cables for vandal switches. And they are dirt cheap.

They are 4 separate single pins which you can attach to pins 3 and 4 for the power/reset (which ever you choose) and then a plus and minus to attach to the same on the motherboard.

Phobya Switch connector

Something similar to this.

edit* misread your post.

What I did was cut the power led like you have with the green one. And then I took the connectors OFF, and replaced them with the + and - connectors you showed. The are easily removable.
 
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