Does anybody make extension cables for front panel LEDs?

[glugglug]

I have this case here: http://www.raidmax.com/specs/smilodon.htm

The red LED that lights up one of the horizontal lines across the front of the case for the HDD indicator is dim compared to the 5 LEDs for the blue lights running across (including the one lighting up the same piece of plastic as the HDD indicator), so HD activity was just making that blue light more purplish.

So I disconnected the blue LEDs on the front. There is a cable that has a fan/drive power connector on one side and a 2 pin male connector (which goes to a normal indicator light connector) on the other that was used hooking up blue front LEDs.

I am thinking it would be cool to hook up the array of blue front LEDs as a HDD indicator, but the cable running from them isn't long enough to reach the connector on the motherboard.

Where would one buy an extender for that kind of cable? What is the connector type even called? I think its molex but when I search for that its mostly drive/fan power connectors.

 

[Billb2]

How about some wire and a soldering iron?

 

[JackMDS]

May be here, http://www.svc.com/fan-cable-adapter.html

Let me know if you find one I could do the same to my Radimax. :thumbsup:

 

[mpilchfamily]

Here is a female to female extention. It can be used easly. Just take a metal paperclip and cut 2x 1/2" lengths from it to allow the original cable and the extention to be combined. Then wrape the connection in electric tape or shrink wrap to keep it secure.

http://www.frozencpu.com/produ...ctor.html?tl=g6c79s680

 

[brblx]

....or solder it.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Western Union splice, solder, heatshrink tubing. Done it several times.

 

[bendixG15]

All you need is to splice in a piece of wire and tape it. Solder is overkill. Its only 12 volts.

 

[brblx]

using solder or not has nothing to do with the amount of voltage. it's so the wires don't pull apart after your ghetto electrical tape repair fails.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: bendixG15
All you need is to splice in a piece of wire and tape it. Solder is overkill. Its only 12 volts.

While 12V is Not risky to Human as 110V is, it can Kill the PSU if it shorts.

 

[bendixG15]

You guys are sleeping ....

 

[glugglug]

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
Here is a female to female extention. It can be used easly. Just take a metal paperclip and cut 2x 1/2" lengths from it to allow the original cable and the extention to be combined. Then wrape the connection in electric tape or shrink wrap to keep it secure.

http://www.frozencpu.com/produ...ctor.html?tl=g6c79s680

This looked like the most promising thing so far, then I went searching the site some more and found an even better match which would not require either hacking it together with a paperclip or taking the end off one cable to put the contacts into the other:

This is the better match:
http://www.frozencpu.com/produ...able.html?tl=g2c34s276

 

[glugglug]

Got the cable, it is working well as the biggest disk use indicator ever.