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Offline General Vergel

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Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« on: December 01, 2007, 01:10:58 PM »
First off, I'm Vergel, or Verg for short if you prefer. I have been lurking around these forums for about a month and a half and fell in love with modding. I use to play with legos alot as a kid and I just love building things (hell, I even work at an engineering firm lol) The first mod I attempted was the "standard" trigger mod. I didn't order any 0603 leds at the time, and just tried to use 3mm red leds from Radioshack with a 10ohm resistor...and I failed horribly. Something happened (prolly too small of a resistor, since the 3mm red leds use 2.25v) and I screwed up my power board/blurnt out the leds. I also accidentally melted part of the home key ribbon  :angry: . So after I bought a clear ghost faceplate and a broken PsP off ebay, I restored my PsP to original condition, minus the awesome faceplate, which you can see below.



I still really wanted to do something awesome to my PsP. After more lurking through the forums, I ran into dubbledutch's Ring of Light mod. That was so awesome I knew I was gonna attempt that as my next mod. Problem is tho, I was afraid of  :censored: up another powerboard, so I came up with an idea: why not put a tiny battery in the PsP to solely power the leds? I didn't see anything like that in the tutorials or in the forums, so I got to work. After several hours of tedious work and about $30 for more modding supplies, I came up with this badboy:



I used a CR2016 Energizer battery to power the 4 0603 green leds (2 in acrylic disk, 1 in each trigger) and a minislide switch to toggle the leds on and off. I'll post some more stuff later on what exactly I did later for you guys to oogle at, cuz I know I'm still basking in the glory of my creation  :tup: :tup:


Edit #1:

Here is a play-by-play breakdown of how I went about modding my PsP.

Well first thing of course was strip the PsP down to its skivvies and find a place to put the guts for the mod. Turned out the perfect place was under the ms/wifi board.

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v161/KurtamusMaximus/psp%20mods/SANY0009.jpg ">

Broke out the dremel and got to work. I had to cut a place for the switch to go, as well as grind out the little black posts to get a flat area for the battery to lay on.




While sizing up my space to work with, I decided to grind down the posts on the switch a bit. Those feelers were pretty long lol. (those white wires on the right switch was from a test circuit I built to get a feel for things)



Was a little scared prying the door off. Sometimes I don't know my own strength and break things >< . Here is a pic of the cut door and PsP symbol. I originally planned to use it, but I screwed up when trying to round the edges and it is more of an oval now :/



Figured the best way to get the wires to the door was drill a hole to the UMD slot, which I later routed the wires through and works perfect.



I read alot of people having trouble with hot glue being too thick when it came to gluing their acrylic/plastic to the door. I centered my acrylic disk on the outside then taped it in place. Then I just flipped it over and ran a bead of hot glue around the crease where the acrylic and plastic meet. Ran the tip of the gun over it a couple times, giving it a nice thin spread.



Here is how I set the battery for testing. It fit pretty nice so there it stayed! lol



I bought 25 0603 green leds, and destroyed almost half by the time this project was done  :angry: This is how I ran the led wires for the door. Nice and easy.



I originally just layed a piece of electrical tape on top of the battery (kept the one on the switch to prevent it from hurting the ms/wifi board) but the negative ends of the led wires had trouble staying put, thus flicking my leds everywhere. I ended up having to wrap about 6 inches of tape around the  :censored: to keep it steady. I also didn't take a pic, but I did not drill into my shoulder buttons to attach the leds. I just put a drop of hot glue on them and lodged them right under the shoulder buttons



...and Duh Nuh Nuh Na! Here is the money shot:



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« Last Edit: December 02, 2007, 06:41:35 AM by General Vergel »

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2007, 01:16:49 PM »
heh, thats great.... i love the little intro... reminds me of.... me.. :P
too bad those batteries dont recharge with the psp... you should do that next :tup:

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2007, 02:55:40 PM »
the only bad thing is.. what if you forget to turn the RoL off? you'll have to take your PSP apart to replace the battery


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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2007, 03:28:20 PM »
The location of the battery is underneath the ms/wifi board, just above the switch, so ya in order to change it out atm you would have to fully dismantle your psp to get to it. kind of a pain, but I was thinking of adding to the mod by cutting a little square out on the back and putting a small hinge/latch to have easy access to the battery. The whole idea was to have the electric circuit be independent of the PsP circuitry. While psppunk's suggestion about having it recharge is a good idea, it would defeat the purpose of having the battery lol.

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2007, 04:18:32 PM »
i only mean for it to charge from the same points, but with a seperate charge circuit... i know theres a schematic online somewhere for that... idk if that would still defeat the pupose or not

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2007, 04:31:57 PM »
That looks fantastic.

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« Last Edit: December 01, 2007, 06:15:24 PM by Slimby »

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2007, 04:40:19 PM »
Thanks Slimby! I was so proud of myself. Gives me a  :censored: just looking at it.  :rofl:

I also found the tutorial for the usb charge mod. Maybe if I routed the wire that connects to the powerplug as in that tutorial and hook it up to the battery it might work. Simple enough, tho I would need to find a rechargeable lithium cell battery. I dunno if just running that wire to the battery would work  :confused:

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2007, 05:00:45 PM »
im gonna say that no, it wouldnt work... its my understanding that you need an actual charge circuit, that would instead be just applying direct voltage.... of course, i could be wrong... but am i? =P

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2007, 06:21:58 PM »
thats awesome but yea it'll be a pain to change the battery. i think i see an R&D in the making  :victory:

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2007, 11:48:55 PM »
that green looks beautiful

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2007, 12:37:55 AM »
I smell an R&D position...

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2007, 04:34:45 AM »
Your PSP looks nice man ;)

i like the green with the black
u should replace the faceplate with a black one and then add some clear buttons and put green leds underneath them

that would look really sick

thanks for crediting me for the rings of light (alot of people forget that)



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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2007, 05:43:48 AM »
now that is kewl
great job
yea i think u should put a small door to get to the batterys

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2007, 06:40:37 AM »
lol thanks you guys for the complements  :tup: I originally planned on using reddish/orange leds. my computer case utilizes about 3 or 4 80mm fans with those color leds in them with 2 orange cathodes on top of that. So obviously the back of the PsP would match my computer. The default power light stays on with the PsP, and green leds would just run smoother overall, and I wouldn't have to mess with the power board replacing the power led. The reddish/orange leds + power light would make my PsP all Christmasy :P

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2007, 11:05:04 AM »
I would just like to say my PsP survived its first impact after doing this mod. Pulled it off my desk when trying to reconnect the power cord after I realized it came unplugged.  :wacko: lol

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2007, 10:52:52 PM »
Very cool!!!! I like this idea with a D-Pad LED and Rechargeable battery cuz there is no like way I am redoing that when I get to many in me and  let the sucker run dry. The switch is just cool for immediate "WHOA" appeal and a seriously easy MOD!!!  You should be proud. Looking forward to seeing a newer version. Good Job!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2007, 05:17:19 AM »
I saw somewhere that some guy attached like 3 solar panels to his NDSlite and was playing in a park or something. Not a PsP, but awesome non the less. Wouldn't work for me tho, I like to play in dark places >> mmm pretty lights lol

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2007, 12:33:22 PM »
very nice!  :cool:

Recahrgable batteyr would top it off though :P

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Re: Auxiliary Internal Battery powers Ring of Light and Trigger LEDs
« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2007, 08:08:45 AM »
thats pretty impressive i might have a go... :tup:

 

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