Smd led?

[Darth Nurse]

I am looking to add ambient light LEDs inside a reveal chassis, and I've seen mention of SMD LEDs directly on the sound card.

Anyone here done this?

[Greenie]

I've mounted a 50/50 on top of the card holder. Does the job fine. :)

[Darth Nurse]

I've mounted a 50/50 on top of the card holder. Does the job fine. :)

Pic or details?

[NanoRex]

Check out the work of Madcow of Genesis Custom Sabers. He does this for almost all of his high-end sabers.

Erv also has a video here. Just use LEDs instead
of resistors. http://youtu.be/nJIJMfrbCQM

[Darth Nurse]

Check out the work of Madcow of Genesis Custom Sabers. He does this for almost all of his high-end sabers.

Erv also has a video here. Just use LEDs instead
of resistors. http://youtu.be/nJIJMfrbCQM

Thank you. Now, do you also have to resistor the SMD LED?

[Forgetful Jedi Knight]

Thank you. Now, do you also have to resistor the SMD LED?

You may, depending ont he specs of the LED in question

[Darth Nurse]

You may, depending ont he specs of the LED in question

I would likely use blue or green to avoid that.

[NanoRex]

I've noticed that Rob never uses warm LEDs for this. To produce an orange bar graph he'll use white LEDs with an orange film on top. That way you don't need to try and get resistors in there.

[Darth Nurse]

Does anyone have a close up of how they attached the small SMDs to directly to the sound card. I saw a video of it on a PRIZM where tiny blue ones were mounted directly to the board and would light in sequence. That's pretty well exactly what I am looking for.

Plan would be to have holes in the chassis cover to let the light blink through, Also, I'd likely alternate blue and green or even white for a little variation.