Ok, i was sitting at home one lovely afternoon after school, actually it was today. and thaught about the old HP scanner downstairs, when i say old i mean AINCHANT. and i thaught, yer scanners have big bright strip lights in them. I dont know what voltage the bulb is regulated at or anything, and the CCs in my pc all are crap cheep ones with built in inverters and im not to fond of hacking things with high voltages apart. I was just wondering if anyone had anyidea what i would be likely to need to connect to what on the scanners mobo to power up the CC. because its such a beautiful blue color its a terrible shame to waste it!!! Thanks alot. Ben would_you_like_some_parrot@hotmail.com
you should be able to steal the inverter from the scanner as it would not work in the first place without one.
The inverter is all built into a circuit that only has 1 connection via a WIDE ribbon calbe to another circuit. And only when both of those are plugged together does it light up, SO the CC is connected to the scan head board, which is connected via 1 ribbon to the motherboard of it. Then the mobo is connected to power and the stepper motor moving the head forward and back to scan. HUMPH
ok i dunno if geocities allows it but this is the address, u may need to copy it to the address bar and not use it as a link http://www.geocities.com/benshole/TECH0046.JPG Sorry bout the quality, im only 15 im poor! the yellow box is the transformer on the board connected to the cc. thanks 4 ur help. Ben
