i started on my front switch bay today, first attempt was an on/off switc for the ccf.l here's a diagram of wut ive done for sum reson when i turn it on and off it is restarting my computer? i dont really understand why this is happening. at the moment none of the connections that have been split are soldered as that option is not available at this time intill i get sum extra cash?? im not sure if this is wut is cuasing the problem. all the wires have been firmly twisted together and are taped ?? ne help would be great (it has been disconected as of now)
If that diagram is correct, when you turn on the swtich you are grounding the 12volt connection on the CCFL. Which is why your machine is rebooting. The switch should be only on the "hot" wire (red) not the ground wire. Code: ----------------//--------------- <= red wire w/ switch --------------------------------- <= black wire...no switch just continuos wire
the way you have it set up is just taking the power and pumping it directly back into the PSU shorting it out :S, this happens when u drop ur led fans so the solder shorts on your metal case as i found out
okay let me see if i got u here. i need to make the ground wire on the ccfl without a break now do i need to put both my ground and positve wire fromt he switch into the red line of the ccfl?
lol this is rather entertaining comical even but seriuosly now it would be a prettey good idea to put the swith before the inverter and not in the lines to th ccfl bulb form the inverter
im lucky as hell i didnt i was dinkin with thst thing for a half hour befor i thought to come ask ppl smarter then me hahaha ahhh the computer gods sure do like to watch over me when ever i try sumthing new okay well ive all confused i think im gettin frustrated now( this really shouldnt be so hard ) nehoo i think i understand now at lest i can walk away knowing im the luaghing stock of the bored now
There is nothing confusing about it. You cut your RED (Positive) wire and solder the switch inbetween the cut. That way, when you flip the switch to ON, it completes the circuit and lets the voltage flow... Nah, not laughing stock. Moral of the story? Ask first if you're not sure.
ya im looking at this now and i dont know why i couldnt do it right the first time it just sorted clicked in my head (no pun intended) this is just common sense haha oh well
Believe me, you are not the first, nor shall you be the last, person to make a wiring mistake. Just consider yourself very lucky that nothing died. I killed a cd-rw because I switched the 12 volt and 5 volt (yellow and red) wires on a molex connector after I sleeved my PSU. Thank God that wasn't a hard drive I plugged it into. We've all made mistakes....just look at the Disaster Mods forum.
very true i just got frustrated cuz sumthing so easy went horribly wrong and stoped t hinking and just acted this is how its wired up now i will try anouther diagram here its still rebooting when i hit the switch, im thinkin mybe i should leave it out of the computer intill i get a soldering iron (i just have all the wires twisted around each other with electrical tape wraped around it a few times)
NO, before the inverter, on the 12V side.. NOT the high-voltage side.. (not actually shure that you shoud do any more connecting, somehow, you SCARE me.. ) Where you now have put the switch, youre running about 10000 volts thru it, and when the CCFL have lit, it's about 2,5KV running thru there.. you are one dangerous man..
Yeah, I guess I was remiss in not pointing that out too. To be honest, it didn't even click with me that your were doing that. Alekoy is right though, you are lucky you haven't re-started your heart with that set-up...
ah jesus i coulda sworn i had said i was hookin the switch into the light to inverter wire so ur sayin it needs to be like this (sorry for the shitty diagrams) okay i think i got this now right now im tryin to stop the power flow after the inverter beefs it up what i want to do is cut the power off befor it gets to the inverter so i need to tap into the 12v sorce coming frrom the molex to the invertor? im really not as stoopied as this thread is makin me out to be haha
well its about damn time hahaha alright well at lest from now on i wont have to spend a day a switch for the rest of this project haha
njah, exet from the fact that the switch should break the + wire, and the - wire shoud be untouched, (unless you want to make the thread make you look even stoopider.. )
erm... it is breaking the plus wire. The - there is only to indicate what terminal on the switch he is connecting that wire to. It could be flipped around, doesn't matter. unless it has an LED inside it.
