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Best way to make Orange LED's?

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Hey all,

So im looking to get then XSPC RS240 CPU kit for my 2500k and i have a black and orange theme happening atm...

So my choices for LED's to fit into the back of the reservoir are these RED ones or these WHITE ones, as orange isn't a very popular colour... Go figure
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So, my choices are, do i go with the RED or WHITE LED's and use say orange cellofane/contact to get my desired orange effect?

What would work the best for my desired outcome?

Any alternatives all together would be greatly appreciated, keep in mind that i am in Australia, so shipping will be an issue.
I also need UV-orange/normal orange tubing (approx 2m's) and UV Cathodes (approx 20cm's), so if you are to quote from an International site, please include these in the Cart...

All help greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Ishi
 
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Check you Forward Voltage, you may need a bigger/different one going from white to orange. I am glad you found some locally, lens covers over white led lights never work out as good as one would hope.
 
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Hey Killhouse! long time man... trust you are well
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All good, I might have a job this summer so I can get back into modding. Not sure though!
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SEX!

You Sir, are a legend!

If im not mistaken that is 50x 5m LED's?

... 50?...

Cheers

Ishi
I do try
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That is indeed 50x 5mm Orange LED... Now go make your water look like Orange Juice
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Check you Forward Voltage, you may need a bigger/different one going from white to orange. I am glad you found some locally, lens covers over white led lights never work out as good as one would hope.
The Ebay man posted all the specs including the important ones: forward voltage and forward current. Pop a good-sized resistor in each loop and you'll be good to go.

Heres a good LED Resistor Calculator for single LEDs, series, and parallel.
 
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Originally Posted by Killhouse;13777922
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All good, I might have a job this summer so I can get back into modding. Not sure though!

I do try
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That is indeed 50x 5mm Orange LED... Now go make your water look like Orange Juice
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The Ebay man posted all the specs including the important ones: forward voltage and forward current. Pop a good-sized resistor in each loop and you'll be good to go.

Heres a good LED Resistor Calculator for single LEDs, series, and parallel.
Will do...

I've never really done eletrical work before, would you happen to know of any guides i could read up on making the LEDs work, or advice?

Having 50 i should be right if i blow a few
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It's as easy as the resistor calculator makes it!

You need a resistor in the circuit to reduce the current around the circuit so that you dont blow the LEDs, if you're putting LEDs in series then each one will create a voltage drop equal to their forward voltage. Meaning that if the forward voltage is 3.4V you could only put 3 in series (making 10.2V), the resistor would provide the other 1.8V drop and limit the current to the forward current of the LEDs. Using the relation: voltage = resistance x current.

Parallel circuits have a similar relationship except the current through the resistor is higher, because the current splits up to each LED. You're better off wiring the LEDs in parallel because then if one LED blow's out, the others will still work. In series they would all stop working if one blew.

So you'd just wire it up something like this, putting in as many LEDs as you need. Fiddle around with numbers and it will tell you exactly what kind of resistor you'll need. They should be commonly available.
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I'll get back to you tomorrow if you're struggling, the Australia-UK time-change isnt very constructive
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Originally Posted by Killhouse;13778467
It's as easy as the resistor calculator makes it!

You need a resistor in the circuit to reduce the current around the circuit so that you dont blow the LEDs, if you're putting LEDs in series then each one will create a voltage drop equal to their forward voltage. Meaning that if the forward voltage is 3.4V you could only put 3 in series (making 10.2V), the resistor would provide the other 1.8V drop and limit the current to the forward current of the LEDs. Using the relation: voltage = resistance x current.

Parallel circuits have a similar relationship except the current through the resistor is higher, because the current splits up to each LED. You're better off wiring the LEDs in parallel because then if one LED blow's out, the others will still work. In series they would all stop working if one blew.

So you'd just wire it up something like this, putting in as many LEDs as you need. Fiddle around with numbers and it will tell you exactly what kind of resistor you'll need. They should be commonly available.
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I'll get back to you tomorrow if you're struggling, the Australia-UK time-change isnt very constructive
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Thanx mate, muchly appreciated!

I'm on all hours lately, finishing work at 2:30am these days! lol (its midday now, and i haven't slept yet!)

I'll definately read up on it.

As far as i'm aware, i'll need 2 in parallel for the XSPC 5.25" Dual bay reservoir, how would i go about powering them? Wiring them into a molex? How would i go about doing that?

Im sorry for all the questions, really noob at this!
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My gateway case my media system is built in has a bicolour orange(deep orange) and green LED. origionally when it was a legitimate gateway computer, green was power. NOW its reversed so the deep orange means power on. The orange origionally was for sleep/standby
 
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Your best bet would be to find a molex connector with something useless already attached to it, you could just cut the cables and connect them to your LED circuit instead.

Alternatively you could buy a molex connector and pins and crimp the pins yourself. The yellow wire is +12V and either of the black wires is +0V (making 12V between them). You're best off soldering the wires together, and soldering the resistor in to the circuit. The resistor will be dissipating quite a lot of heat so try not to heatshrink or tape over it.

A good method for avoiding the crimping is to buy a molex splitter and just pull one of the connectors off, use the bare wires to connect your LEDs up.
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Originally Posted by Killhouse;13783493
Your best bet would be to find a molex connector with something useless already attached to it, you could just cut the cables and connect them to your LED circuit instead.

Alternatively you could buy a molex connector and pins and crimp the pins yourself. The yellow wire is +12V and either of the black wires is +0V (making 12V between them). You're best off soldering the wires together, and soldering the resistor in to the circuit. The resistor will be dissipating quite a lot of heat so try not to heatshrink or tape over it.

A good method for avoiding the crimping is to buy a molex splitter and just pull one of the connectors off, use the bare wires to connect your LEDs up.
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I have plenty of 3pin fan to molex connectors that came with my Xigmatek fans, i could use one of them.
 
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