conection help

blutacshrooms · 02-18-2005, 02:42 PM

I recently purchased some light to mod my computer with and I thought hey it would be great if I could put these around my room.

Only problem is I donÂ’t no how I could run them off the mains does anyone have any suggestions or information on where I could get an adapter from?

Any help would be great

Samm · 02-18-2005, 04:50 PM

Computer lights are designed to operate on 5 or 12V DC.
Your mains supply (depending on where you live) will be 230V (europe) or 120V (USA) AC.

Essentially this means that you would require some type of AC-DC convertor with the ability to step down the output voltage to 5 or 12V.

These may come with various jacks to fit different appliances but you can cut the jack off & wire a molex connector on the end instead, so you can plug a light straight into it.

NB If you are planning to connect more than one light to the adapter, make sure they are connected in parallel otherwise you'll split the supply voltage & they won't all work.

Samm · 02-18-2005, 04:53 PM

Sorry, meant to post a link to a site selling the adapters I'm on about, so here it is :
http://www.oselectronics.com/ose_p17.htm

02-18-2005, 02:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
blutacshrooms Newb Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1	conection help I recently purchased some light to mod my computer with and I thought hey it would be great if I could put these around my room. Only problem is I donÂ’t no how I could run them off the mains does anyone have any suggestions or information on where I could get an adapter from? Any help would be great

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02-18-2005, 04:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
Samm Super Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 441	Computer lights are designed to operate on 5 or 12V DC. Your mains supply (depending on where you live) will be 230V (europe) or 120V (USA) AC. Essentially this means that you would require some type of AC-DC convertor with the ability to step down the output voltage to 5 or 12V. These may come with various jacks to fit different appliances but you can cut the jack off & wire a molex connector on the end instead, so you can plug a light straight into it. NB If you are planning to connect more than one light to the adapter, make sure they are connected in parallel otherwise you'll split the supply voltage & they won't all work.

02-18-2005, 04:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
Samm Super Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 441	Sorry, meant to post a link to a site selling the adapters I'm on about, so here it is : http://www.oselectronics.com/ose_p17.htm