Does anyone know anything about LED's??

[colossalnerd]

I am thinking about doing something to make my monitor look better. I think that it'd be neat to put LEDs in all of my buttons, and maybe rig up a cold cathode or two so that my monitor case glows.. Does anyone have any good sites about hooking up LED's ?? Blinking would be cool too i think.

[avx]

Start by checking out some of the sites mentioned here:
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69021

Be very careful, even with the montor fully unplugged it is still possible to get a surge that could kill you.

[scott_d]

Metku.net has alot of good articles dealing with led's
A good place to get cheap led's is at case-mod.com
I dont know how you would do a cold cathode, unless you put another transformer inside, because i doubt any part of it runs on 12v dc....
As avx said, monitors can be deadly, so be very very careful.
HTH

[colossalnerd]

Being deadly is the most fun part. You can't say that you have truly lived unless you have taken those kind of chances, but thanks for the help, i will be careful.. I definitely dont plan on messing with any part of the actual monitor hardware itself, i plan on rigging up some sort of radio shack dealie, with it's own power supply and everything..

[mattg2k4]

You can easily get 12v by running a wire from your computer or a wall wart. Then you can add a standard inverter for your cold cathod. If you're messing with your monitor already, you might put in a quiet cooling fan. It might prolong your monitor's life a bit.