Rewiring power button

[whatgophers]

I want to rewire my power button on my pc with an arcade power button and I need to know if i can just power the led in the button with the header on the motherboard or if I need to splice up a molex connector. I'll attach a picture of the type of button I am looking at using.

[Anghammarad]

Don't know how much power the light in the button needs. Else you could wire up the pwrbtn cable and powerled header to this thingy. If Switch and lamp are on one circuit and not on their own, you will need to make a own circuit for the lamp.

[whatgophers]

This one says it can use 5-12 volts and that there is a resistor you can desolder to make it brighter at lower voltages

 

[W-L]

7 hours ago, whatgophers said:

This one says it can use 5-12 volts and that there is a resistor you can desolder to make it brighter at lower voltages

 

Your going to need to hook that up seperately if you keep it as it and have it powered via the PSU, if you can desolder the resistor and have it with the LED by itself the front IO for the LED provides around 3V that is current limited. 

[whatgophers]

Thanks!

[W-L]

16 minutes ago, whatgophers said:

Thanks!

If you want a quick and dirty way to check to see if the LED will work on the front Io header just use a regular 3V coin or watch battery across the leads once the resistor is removed.