Ok, my plan is making a LED Ring around the jewel area like this: http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/jewel-leds.php
and I wanna attach a switch so that I can switch the LEDs on and off, does anyone know where i can buy a switch that i can easily hook up to the wiring that i have done as exactly done in the tutorial?

Help would be good for a N00b
Thanks

I'd look at an electronics component store, and if noone else from australia answers this, I'd personally read up a bit at www.dansdata.com as he's into circuits, and probably has a reference to a suitable store down under. What you need I believe is called a SPST, or single pole single throw switch. You don't want a momentary switch, which is the type that you have on your computer to turn it on/of, which would close the circuit temporarily. An example of the SPST switch can be found here. http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...t&f=24&t=483377 or http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...oductId=2062497

I haven't had any electronics training, so if I'm way off, someone let us know

Good luck!

Thanks Mate, I'll do my research, Cheers

yes you would need a spst switch. hook up is easy, first off all the switches i have ever worked with have three connections, yours may be different. all you need to do is have the incoming power to the outter lead on the switch and out going to the leds and if you have a third... well do nothing with it. unless its a lighted switch and you want it to light when its on then you hook power to that as well.

Thanks heaps, going down to Dick Smith to see if i can find one, Cheers
Sam Fisher

kk guys, purchased a SPST Switch today at good old Dick Smith Electronics. And its one big ass switch...only one they had at DSE Super Store in highpoint: http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefro...duct/View/P7666 I tested it with 1 led and got it working, so it defiantly works (thank you sting369 and XtuRmN8r for the brief info )
But while I was there I bought this: http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefro...duct/View/T4853 I was so glad i finally found somthing to cut out a dvd window with, I recommend this to anyone who lives in australia, $20 mate. Also bought some wire and resistors but not LEDs cause they are the shitest quality. Im gonna buy LEDs from www.ledshoppe.com does anyone have any experiance with this company?

thank you very much.
Sam

Hey Sam,

I also live in Melbourne and frequent the highpoint DSE store

That isnt the right switch though.
PM me and i can also hook you up with a switch for $1 (cheaper than DSE's) and ill include it with the other thing your buying. Its a small switch. Which well, wll it will suit the xbox. i use them all the time.

PM me when you get paypal stuff sorted.

all the info has been givin to you about wiring it

he lives in Melbourne,Victoria

I'd edit that if i were you lol

Victoria is a state in Australia
I live in Vic AUS, he also lives in Vic AUS.

Victoria isn't a Country

lol, yer we both live in Melbourne which is a city in the state of Victoria which is a state of Australia

UPDATE** I cut my DVD Window and sanded it with the bits from Dick Smith and it looks excellent, the only problem i have is cutting the metal casing that covers the tray, as the bits i bought from DS are not strong enough with a normal cordless drill, should i think about a electric dril? or maybe even a jig saw?? dunno, what did u guys that have dvd windows use?
Cheers, Sam

why not just take the metal shielding out all together?

lol, because the dvd has to be held in by the spindel at the top, otherwise the disc will just spin right off the disc tray. Anyway, I ended up cutting the metal cover today with a pair of metal cutters, an angle grinder, an electric sander, and lots of help from my stepdad
Heres some pics (sorry 56kers, lowest picture size on my camera and photoshop is stuffed up):




Gonna repaint soon when I get the cans of paint, sam
As you can see alot of sanding had to be done
Next step, Plexi-Glass and Paint....

Sam Fisher

you can get them anywhere local hardware store, radio shack, ebay ...................

get a xerc from sickdimension or go to www.sickmods.net they make awsome led chaser's switch's etc. these are way beyond a switch though but are very easy and nice to have installed can make led's do thing's you never thought possible on an xbox lol

thanks for the info guys, purchsing some switchs from eminvil_12, but ill keep this info in mind for the future
Cheers, Sam

I don't know if you're still interested, but if you can find a car stereo shop that installs car alarms, you might wanna check there too. I used to install car alarms for this one place, and we always had space little toggle switches laying around that we didn't need. All you's have to do it wire it in line with the power of the LEDs, and it'll turn on or off the entire chain of LED's

Thanks mate, i'll have a look round at some of the local car modification places, ill ask them and see what they say, Cheers, Sam