Activity light in a Platinum IIe
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:18 pmInspired by EricB's work on the IIgs:
https://dreher.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=101
I did the same sort of thing with my Platinum IIe.
I took the stock LED out of the socket (it's not attached by anything but friction) and replaced it with a clear, high-output, red LED. I happened to get mine from Jameco:
https://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/store ... tId=197617
Since the headroom was kind of tight between the keyboard and the light
bezel, I just bent the leads around to orient the LED at a 90 degree angle to the socket (which I also trimmed all the way back to the point where the leads plug in). I then just hot-glued the socket to the keyboard connector.
Picture here:
http://pws.prserv.net/schmidt/img/PlatinumCFFALight.jpg
https://dreher.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=101
I did the same sort of thing with my Platinum IIe.
I took the stock LED out of the socket (it's not attached by anything but friction) and replaced it with a clear, high-output, red LED. I happened to get mine from Jameco:
https://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/store ... tId=197617
Since the headroom was kind of tight between the keyboard and the light
bezel, I just bent the leads around to orient the LED at a 90 degree angle to the socket (which I also trimmed all the way back to the point where the leads plug in). I then just hot-glued the socket to the keyboard connector.
Picture here:
http://pws.prserv.net/schmidt/img/PlatinumCFFALight.jpg
