Rocker set up

[UT-Jackal]

Is it difficult to hook rockers up to cold cathoids or other lighting things in your comp?

 

[waddles]

Any cathode lighting kit you buy will come with a rocker switch or some kind of switch that will be a sinch to hook up to the inverter, so no, it shouldn't be difficult at all.

 

[UT-Jackal]

but i want to change it out with a different rocker, would this be hard?

 

[SarverSystems]

Posting the question was prolly harder to do.

 

[AR]

Yes, he's serious. Can you put your seatbelt on in a car? Think you can do it twice?

One wire connecting the inverter to the light will have a switch in the middle of it as a bridge -- like a link in a section of chain. You disconnect each end from the switch, put in the switch you'd rather have, and then reconnect each end to this new switch.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but since you asked a question like this - make sure the CCFL is unplugged!!

 

[UT-Jackal]

i dont mean to sound stupid, i just have never done wiring of any kind and just wanted to make sure. But yes i know to do that and no i dont take it the wronge way.

Thanks

 

[somecallmeTim]

It's really not all the difficult to do. Most rocker switches have two connectors for them, so they either make or break the circuit (on / off). Look at the switch that's with the CCFL now and you'll see.

Unplug the power to your system, and depedning on how much room you have will determind how you'll do this. Before you do anything, check on how your new switch mounts - and then see where you want to mount it. If you need to cut metal, you'll need to emtpy your case (yes, everything). If it's in a plastic panel, you can remove that and work on it separately.

Som switches are "once piece" - where you need to have the wires coming out of your mouting hole so you can solder them on the switch, and then put the switch into the hole from the outside. Others the switch has a moutning bracket (they vary widely) and the switch can mount from either the front or back.

To replace the switch, unsolder the connections for the current switch carefully. If you use a soldering gun, be really careful as they get hot enough to melt plastic. Then, solder the wires to your new switch, mount it and yer done

If you've never soldered before, have some one show you how that does know how, or have them help you out - the processes isn't that difficult, but if you've never done it before, it doesn't hurt to ask about it.

Peace,
tim

 

[cnealjr]

Most cold cathode kits come with spade connectors that don't require soldering at all. If you are lucky, all you will have to do is unplug the spade connectors from the existing switch and slide them onto the terminals of the new switch. If you are unlucky, you might have to connect them twice, depending upon the postion of the rocker switch and which way you want the "on" and "off" positions to be. Good luck!

 

[somecallmeTim]

Most cold cathode kits come with spade connectors that don't require soldering at all. If you are lucky, all you will have to do is unplug the spade connectors from the existing switch and slide them onto the terminals of the new switch. If you are unlucky, you might have to connect them twice, depending upon the postion of the rocker switch and which way you want the "on" and "off" positions to be. Good luck!

D'oh! forgot about the easy way...

That's why there is more than one of us around here - thanks for getting my back.

Peace,
Tim

 

[Cocheese]

if you just buy the cathode that has a switch and go buy your new rocker, just lay the contents of the two packages out on a table and , even with no wiring/elec experience, it will all just......make sense.

 

[UT-Jackal]

lol ok guys thanks... tim scared me at first with the whole soldering thing, but yeah i was hoping i would just be able to "yank" the cords out and switch em. So we shall see once everything arrives in the mail. Thanks again!

- Jackal -