Window and Light Mod on LinkSys hub

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mnewberg

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I was tearing apart a old hub and thought the inside looked pretty cool, so I decided to mod it.

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Damn, those are some big heatsinks

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I took some time and laid out where I want to put the window. It required some thought becuase the case has supports I needed to watch out for.

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I drilled holes at the corners to make the corners look nice and neat. It also made cutting it apart easier. Plus working with a drill is fun.


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This is about half-way through the dremeling, I needed to make another pass around it after this, and I also need to spend some time filing down the sides to make them look pretty.

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The clear plastic was hard to cut. Someone should put a how to up. I was still able to fit it in, just doesn't look pretty.

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Testing the LED after the first few solders. The light is from a flashlight and it was running off of 4.5 volts. The hub runs of of 5V, so I added a resistor just to be safe.

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Dark picture, the light is hard to see.

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I wrote up a little bit more on my webpage.
 
looks nice. Give it a good simple paint job and it will be one nice little hub that you wont want to sell even when 10gb routers are cheaper.
 
It would be cool if you add some new heatsinks/fans to it :D .
 
maybe a couple of dull leds in there to give a nice 'warm' glow would look cool
 
altec said:
It would be cool if you add some new heatsinks/fans to it :D .
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I have a few fans I ripped from Motherboards. I didn't put one in becuase they are rated for 12v and I only have 5v in the hub.
 
i did somthing simmalar, but my focus was cooling(i have it running the wireless at 6 times the default output power) not looks, havent gotten around to buying blue leds and changing them all out just yet, and i am certainly going to be epoxying heat sinks to the hot chips,
http://1stclasspcs.com/uploaded/DSC00006.jpg
if cooling becomes a issue you can do that :p
 
We (me and a flatmate) once had a crappy little 8 port switch that just died one day. We hadn't had it long so we took it back to the shop where we bought it and got a replacement.

That died too. My mate was friends with the shop owner and after he secured a new switch (same model sadly) they ripped open the latest deceased model. Scorch marks all over the main chip inside. Not good, but the guy didn't have any other switches of the same or similar price in stock. We sorted it.

We took a "hard drive cooler" (in reality a set of three 40mm fans attached to a 5.25" blanking plate with vents in it), ripped it apart. We attached the fans to a sheet of card from a cereal box and sat the switch between the two. We fed the fans from a molex and a few extensions from the nearest PC. An old K6/2 heatsink was placed on top of the switch as an added precaution. Caused no more problems. But a pain nonetheless.
 
ColinR said:
We (me and a flatmate) once had a crappy little 8 port switch that just died one day. We hadn't had it long so we took it back to the shop where we bought it and got a replacement.

That died too. My mate was friends with the shop owner and after he secured a new switch (same model sadly) they ripped open the latest deceased model. Scorch marks all over the main chip inside. Not good, but the guy didn't have any other switches of the same or similar price in stock. We sorted it.

We took a "hard drive cooler" (in reality a set of three 40mm fans attached to a 5.25" blanking plate with vents in it), ripped it apart. We attached the fans to a sheet of card from a cereal box and sat the switch between the two. We fed the fans from a molex and a few extensions from the nearest PC. An old K6/2 heatsink was placed on top of the switch as an added precaution. Caused no more problems. But a pain nonetheless.
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I don't suppose you have pics of that mod? Would love to see them if you do....
 
lamarth said:
I don't suppose you have pics of that mod? Would love to see them if you do....
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Sorry, I've since moved out. It was truly ghetto, but it worked.

A sheet of card from a cereal box about 80mm along the side and 200mm along the front.
Attach 2 of the fans to the left hand side blowing across the card. Use narrow insulating tape.
Attach the remaining fan to the right hand side of the card sucking across the card. Again use narrow insulating tape, but cut the card so you don't make triangles.
Feed a molex out of a handy hole in the back of your case. Note that the 9 pin serial port (stamped out ones) on the chassis on the Noname POS Case I used couldn't fit a molex through, so I had to use a 25 pin one.
Connect up the fan's connector to this fed through molex (use extension if required - we did but then removed the feet from the bottom of the case making enough clearance on top to fit it without - the case was in a set of shelves).
Place the switch between the fans.
Place K6/2 heatsink on the switch's hotspot for added ghetto-styyyyyle.
Power everything up. Afrotech would be proud!
 
altec said:
Would be cool if you changed the lan leds :D .
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im going to be doing that with my router as practice for when i volt mod my 5950 ultra
 
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