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Wiring a CCFL switch

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I have the storm sniper which has a dial on the top to change fan speed and a button in the middle of this switch which turns the LED's on the 200mm fans on and off.
I'm not using any of the LED controllable fans in this case, switching to RPM controlled 120mm fans instead (I will be using 120mm radiators).
Basically, I want to rewire this thing so that the button will turn on and off the CCFL's instead.
I've taken a few pictures of everything which I hope will explain everything a little better:

Here is the PSU power, fan power/RPM controller and the red and black wires are for the fans LED's
fancontroller.jpg


I need to attach to this the CCFL board that attaches to the CCFL tubes:
ccflboard.jpg


This is how it is regularly wired, I want to use the case's LED switch (top picture) instead of the switch here:
ccflwiring.jpg


The manual, just in case you wanted to see it:
manual.jpg


How should I wire this up? Could someone draw me a diagram?
I need to know if I need to buy certain plugs or wiring and how to do it.

I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to wiring things, it does sound simple, but I might be thinking to hard.

Thanks

:)
 
Ignoring polarity and voltage issues ...

The easy way to do this is plug one of the LED fan switch connectors into the CCFL board.
 
keenan said:
You can try it, but I doubt it will work.

A relay triggered from one of the LED outputs is probably the easiest solution.
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Thats the only way I see to do it. The LED headers are probably between 3 to 4.5 volts and you need 12volts to power the CCFL. Which means some fancy wiring and some more then average electronics skills to use it.
I would suggest just swapping out the switch w/ a better looking switch and mount it on one of the drive covers or maybe you can squeeze the existing switch into the coontrol panel somewhere.
 
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