Hi,

I am currently working on my first mod, and hope to have most of it finished by tomorrow.
I wanted to ask a quick question about wiring cold cathodes. I have read the tutorial (kudos grim), and am quite happy to solder them directly to the 12V on the pcb. However I also have the Talismoon fans which have a standard 4 pin molex connector, with an adaptor.
So technically I could just daisy chain the cathodes, and not bother soldering.
Yes I know MS can see that I am drawing more power from the fan input but surely I will be drawing more power anyway due to the led's on the Talismoon fans?

Any advice would be great.

Your fans need all the juice they can get. You splice the fans with the cathodes and your looking at a dead console. I suggest you solder the wires under the power supply plug.

Will do, thanks man.

? does ms even monitor that? that would seem over the top and take too much time and effort to stop modders and such

thats bs

Agreed. Even if MS can see the mod, they focus their man power on banning fw modded drives.

Its not bs, do a quick search and you'll find some threads on it. Yeah I doubt they actively look for such things but the point is they CAN see it. In addition, as was mentioned earlier, its prob not a great idea daisy chaining off the fan power supply.