Ghetto Mods

xBruce88x · Jun 17, 2011

My ghetto mod for a Slot PIII 550Mhz

The heads of the zipties hold the fan in place and then the tail moves through the holes...

... and then tie into the heads that are holding the heatsink plate in place, of which those ziptie tails run through those holes to the outside black piece....

... and then 4 ziptie heads hold the whole thing together.

and the table/shelf for my keyboard and mouse is just a piece of wood held in place by the weight of my CRT monitor.

theJesus · Jun 17, 2011

Zip-ties FTW

xBruce88x · Jun 17, 2011

some of my favorite things, duct tape, aluminum tape, zip-ties, electrical tape, lighters (for burning off the coating on wires)... you don't want to know what my truck's old speaker wiring looked like lol

MilkyWay · Jun 17, 2011

theJesus said:
Zip-ties FTW

I dont know what id do without cable ties/zip ties! VERY Handy :cool:

synaesthesia · Jun 17, 2011

It's not a case mod but ghetto enough, I think,

Needed a quick and easy fibre cable tester without spending upwards of £100 for a 5 minute check on our infrastructure.

So, in 10 minutes I fashioned this

2 high brightness LED's stolen from a case.
1 button from a case
Lots of blutack and PVC tape.
9v battery.
Patch bulkhead connector from a spare fibre patch panel.
1 box from a GBIC connector.

Trigger911 · Jun 17, 2011

synaesthesia said:
It's not a case mod but ghetto enough, I think,

Needed a quick and easy fibre cable tester without spending upwards of £100 for a 5 minute check on our infrastructure.

So, in 10 minutes I fashioned this

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff271/krytenofsmeg/IMG00035-20110616-1414.jpg

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff271/krytenofsmeg/IMG00036-20110616-1414.jpg

2 high brightness LED's stolen from a case.
1 button from a case
Lots of blutack and PVC tape.
9v battery.
Patch bulkhead connector from a spare fibre patch panel.
1 box from a GBIC connector.

Pretty sweet

theJesus · Jun 18, 2011

That is indeed pretty fucking sweet lol

twilyth · Jun 18, 2011

synaesthesia said:
It's not a case mod but ghetto enough, I think,

Needed a quick and easy fibre cable tester without spending upwards of £100 for a 5 minute check on our infrastructure.

So, in 10 minutes I fashioned this

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff271/krytenofsmeg/IMG00035-20110616-1414.jpg

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff271/krytenofsmeg/IMG00036-20110616-1414.jpg

2 high brightness LED's stolen from a case.
1 button from a case
Lots of blutack and PVC tape.
9v battery.
Patch bulkhead connector from a spare fibre patch panel.
1 box from a GBIC connector.

You can connect an LED directly up to 9volts? I thought you needed a capacitor or a resistor or something. I guess not.

And yes, tres ghetto.

theJesus · Jun 18, 2011

twilyth said:
You can connect an LED directly up to 9volts? I thought you needed a capacitor or a resistor or something. I guess not.

Yes, I've taped an LED to a 9volt battery to make a ghetto flashlight when the power went out once and it worked just fine. :laugh:

I might even have pics.

Also, I've experimented and connected LEDs directly to the 12v on my PSU, but IIRC they got really hot and some may have burnt out.

EDIT: Here's a pic of the ghetto 9v battery LED "flashlight" I used when the power went out. There was no on/off "button" obviously, so I just wiggled it around to turn it on and off :laugh:

Swamp Monster · Jun 18, 2011

twilyth said:
You can connect an LED directly up to 9volts? I thought you needed a capacitor or a resistor or something. I guess not.

In some cases you can, but you should not, if you are building something to last.

theJesus said:
Also, I've experimented and connected LEDs directly to the 12v on my PSU, but IIRC they got really hot and some may have burnt out.

That's why. ^

If a Resistor is put in series with LED, it limits current to safe level and LED stays cool and lasts long.

But this is one nice looking ghetto flashlight anyway

de.das.dude · Jun 18, 2011

im bored so i will elaborate.

LEDs are semiconductors. This means that they have a negative temperature coefficient for resistance. The hotter it gets, the lower the resistance gets and so more current flows which in turn means MOAR heat.

so its always advised to have a resistance in series with the LED.
if 'V' is the voltage of your source.
'v' the voltage rating of your LEDs
'i' the current that should flow through the LED
and R the resistance required...

V - v = i R
or R=((V-v)/i

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife · Jun 18, 2011

found a creative way to mount a fan on top of ram sticks

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=339018

did it myself and heres the result
and sorry for the horrible quality

theJesus · Jun 18, 2011

Genius.

Velvet Wafer · Jun 18, 2011

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife said:
found a creative way to mount a fan on top of ram sticks

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=339018

did it myself and heres the result
and sorry for the horrible quality
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/Ruoping_Li/061811100143-1.jpg

heyyy! if you use that with the right color, that can indeed look pretty professional! thanks!

OneMoar · Jun 18, 2011

the rubber bands also have the advantage of making sure the ram stays seated and locked

synaesthesia · Jun 18, 2011

Yes ideally there should be a resistor but the switch is momentary so it won't do much harm to it. I've not long finished mounting it into a plastic box (old BNC network tester) but I'm already onto the next stage, which is to make it compatible with single mode fibre - meaning I'm playing with "frickin' laser beams"

Found out the hard way that you really need a driver board for lasers - the one I tested directly to a 9v battery got REAL hot REAL quick and blew out

de.das.dude · Jun 18, 2011

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife said:
found a creative way to mount a fan on top of ram sticks

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=339018

did it myself and heres the result
and sorry for the horrible quality
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/Ruoping_Li/061811100143-1.jpg

no excuse for having the pic upside down

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife · Jun 18, 2011

de.das.dude said:
no excuse for having the pic upside down

indeed, i was holding my phonecam backwards

-FOG- · Jun 18, 2011

Most of the mods say: zip-ties FTW

mlee49 · Jun 18, 2011

Zip ties, DUH WINNING!!!!!

Velvet Wafer · Jun 18, 2011

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife said:
indeed, i was holding my phonecam backwards

i really like your sig, alia... as its pure thruth

theJesus · Jun 19, 2011

synaesthesia said:
Found out the hard way that you really need a driver board for lasers - the one I tested directly to a 9v battery got REAL hot REAL quick and blew out

You know what else is fun? Plug a 12v DC case fan directly into a 120v AC socket :roll:

OneMoar · Jun 19, 2011

theJesus said:
You know what else is fun? Plug a 12v DC case fan directly into a 120v AC socket

You know what else is fun? getting electrocuted

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife · Jun 19, 2011

theJesus said:
You know what else is fun? Plug a 12v DC case fan directly into a 120v AC socket

no srsly, i tried that once a couple of years ago
it went POW and the whole house smelled like burned plastic, you know the kind of smell when something electronic burns...

micropage7 · Jun 19, 2011

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife said:
indeed, i was holding my phonecam backwards

yeah. next time just using online photo editor and rotate it
it would much better

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Ghetto Mods

xBruce88x

theJesus

xBruce88x

MilkyWay

synaesthesia

New Member

Trigger911

theJesus

twilyth

Guest

theJesus

Swamp Monster

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife

New Member

theJesus

Velvet Wafer

OneMoar

There is Always Moar

synaesthesia

New Member

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife

New Member

-FOG-

mlee49

Velvet Wafer

theJesus

OneMoar

There is Always Moar

St.Alia-Of-The-Knife

New Member

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