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4 pin led strip case lighting. How to dim them down.

loony979

4 pin led strip case lighting. How to dim them down.

Is there a small cheap control box with a dial knob i can use to dim these down.

Or even a Diy option.

Mine are white only: Molex to 4 pin. i use 3 . 2 are daisy chained with another runs of another molex cable.

 

My Mobo: im not even sure if i can do anything in the Bios for led. It's an old Asus Prime Z270-AR. for my 7600k.

I have 1 on the left wall of case 1 in the bottom & 1 right wall of case. ive looked at google just can't seem

to find anything. Thanks again.

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15 minutes ago, loony979 said:

4 pin led strip case lighting. How to dim them down.

Is there a small cheap control box with a dial knob i can use to dim these down.

Or even a Diy option.

Mine are white only: Molex to 4 pin. i use 3 . 2 are daisy chained with another runs of another molex cable.

 

My Mobo: im not even sure if i can do anything in the Bios for led. It's an old Asus Prime Z270-AR. for my 7600k.

I have 1 on the left wall of case 1 in the bottom & 1 right wall of case. ive looked at google just can't seem

to find anything. Thanks again.

Screenshot 2023-07-02 at 14-20-01 51BD xrYkFL._AC_UF894 1000_QL80_.jpg (JPEG Image 894 × 711 pixels).png

If it's molex, you can't dim them because there's no signal wire to control the LEDs. 

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If you only have the molex to use for powering them, then no. Seeing they also use only 2 wires from the molex and have no circuitry between the 4-pin connector and the leds, they either use 12V or 5V leds without voltage control (like 99% of PC led strips, no matter the brand or the price range), as in the strip doesn't have circuitry to detect the connected voltage and dim the leds according to that voltage, so you cannot even jerryrig potentiometer to the molex cable to adjust the voltage and so the brightness.

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