wiring together ccfl lights

Hi tju76,

Take a look at this kit at Lampton

I see that you all ready have the tubes but you can probably buy the switch and molex plug separate. Check out the video lower on the page. It shows just what you want to do. The switch has to go on the drop side of the inverter. If you have separate inverters you will have to gang wire the power leads into the inverters and run the common lead through the switch.

Frank

Edited by FrankW - 01 Jul 2012 at 1:25pm

tju76, the best way to do this is to buy the kit I showed you. I don't know what kind of inverters you have and what kind of connectors are on the inverters. Have you looked at the one that came on your computer and wired by DS. That is how you want to do it.

Basically you will get 12v and ground from the power supply. From the inverters you wire the switch wire to the switch. The other side of the inverters goes to the tubes.

Newegg has a bunch of different Molex and other wiring harness like 1 male Molex wired to 4 female Molex connectors. This will work if your inverters have Molex connectors wired to them.

Since you have to ask the question I think you would be a lot better off with the kit I showed you for sure.

Look at this site. It gives instructions on what you need to do. Instructions

You need to realize that I don't know what inverter or tubes you have and I assume no responsibility if you damage your computer or yourself.

Frank

Edited by FrankW - 03 Jul 2012 at 8:20am

i already have the lights wired up running etc my question was because i want to get sound activated inverters and i am sure there is a way to have them all run off of one pci bracket on/off switch

I am so unintelligent that my  head hurts from reading all of that.

What does all those above mean in Xii words?

yes to all questions it will just be easier if i get to lamptrons i guess

all 3 inverters are full i have a total of 5 ccfl tubes, i have the original pci backplate from ds and a sound activated one for a 15 inch tube, the 3rd inverter i removed the switch from the pci bracket and placed it in the back of the case. but yes the switches have a red and yellow wires going out from them. what i want to do is beable to control all lights from one switch at most two. i am going to be replacing my 2 non sound activated modules with sound activated ones and the pci switch in the back is not able to be removed.

OK, I think we can do this now. The only possible problem is what effect the voice activation might have with the switch. That will probably take care of its self.

1. Take one back plate with the switch you want to control all of the lights from. Lets call that switch 1.

2. Remove the red and yellow wires from another switch and wire them directly to switch 1. Put the red wire on the red wire and the yellow wire to the yellow wire. Look at the existing wire and see if it is wrapped around the terminal or if the terminal has a hole through it. If it has a hole then you need to melt the solder in the hole and poke a pointed toothpick through the hole so there is enough room to insert the other wires. For safety sake remove the switch plate from the computer and work on it behind the case. Don't re-solder at this time.

3. Now remove the red and yellow leads from the next switch plate and wire them to switch 1 just like you just did. Now solder the leads and you should be operating all of the lights from one switch.

5. Remove the other switches and replace switch plate 1 back into the computer. You should now be done.

If this doesn't make sense to you I suggest you take your computer to a local shop and pay them to do the wiring. It should only take a few minutes.

Frank

Edited by FrankW - 03 Jul 2012 at 8:18am

yeah there is a computer repair shop in town i might see if they can do it, they would actually come to the house too, even though they are like 5 mins up the road just a pain moving the case around

one more question its not a problem if i need to use wire strippers to get to the actual wire because all i see is sleeving going to a terminal on "switch 1"

okay thanks

nah haven't really had the time getting new fans and a fan controller and some dominator ram so i will look at doing it then, should all be in by tomorrow i think i will be able to run my lights off of the controller.

If you don't solder them they will be a potential problem. I would solder them.

Frank