Hello,
I was hoping to get some advice with LED wiring and using a Lamptron switch. I have one of these Bitspower X-Station LED Power Hubs (with green LEDs instead). I'm planning on modding 12 fans to have LEDs (4 each) and if I were to plug each individual LED into the hub, I'd run out of terminals fast. The hub has 40 terminals, but only 20 are 3.3V for LEDs without a resistor.
What I was wondering is if it would be okay for me to wire 4 LEDs in parallel to a single 3.3V terminal. This would cut the terminals needed to 12 rather than 48, but I'm worried that doing so would be bad for either the LEDs or the hub itself.
I'm also thinking of using some 2.0V LEDs (orange) and was wondering if it's absolutely necessary to use a resistor with these when connected to the 3.3V terminals?
Lastly, I would like to use a latching Delrin anti-vandal switch (Lamptron) to control the hub, turning it on and off at will. The hub uses a 4-pin molex from the PSU and I was wondering how I would go about hooking it up to a switch. Is it okay for me to cut the 12V line going into the hub and connect it to the switch? With fans and other peripherals that use either 12V or 5V it's pretty easy, but I'm at a loss as to how to do this with the hub.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I was hoping to get some advice with LED wiring and using a Lamptron switch. I have one of these Bitspower X-Station LED Power Hubs (with green LEDs instead). I'm planning on modding 12 fans to have LEDs (4 each) and if I were to plug each individual LED into the hub, I'd run out of terminals fast. The hub has 40 terminals, but only 20 are 3.3V for LEDs without a resistor.
What I was wondering is if it would be okay for me to wire 4 LEDs in parallel to a single 3.3V terminal. This would cut the terminals needed to 12 rather than 48, but I'm worried that doing so would be bad for either the LEDs or the hub itself.
I'm also thinking of using some 2.0V LEDs (orange) and was wondering if it's absolutely necessary to use a resistor with these when connected to the 3.3V terminals?
Lastly, I would like to use a latching Delrin anti-vandal switch (Lamptron) to control the hub, turning it on and off at will. The hub uses a 4-pin molex from the PSU and I was wondering how I would go about hooking it up to a switch. Is it okay for me to cut the 12V line going into the hub and connect it to the switch? With fans and other peripherals that use either 12V or 5V it's pretty easy, but I'm at a loss as to how to do this with the hub.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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