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How to manually destroy led on case fan

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November 26, 2013 8:55:59 PM

As the title says, I have a spare fan here but it has a LED red light. It won't match the whole rig, so I want to destroy the led lights. But I don't know how. Can a modder please shed light on this one please? :) 

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November 26, 2013 9:11:12 PM

I would recommend just cutting the cables if you really wanted to destroy it.
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November 26, 2013 9:16:24 PM

Black paint works!
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November 26, 2013 9:18:16 PM

If you go where the LED is, breaking one of the silver contacts that power it will disable it, also cutting the wires to the LEDs works too.
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November 26, 2013 9:19:54 PM

When I was a lad I had an rg500 suzuki import. It had a red light on the clocks that used to flash at 65mph. It was to let you know you were breaking the japanese speed limit. Black electrical tape worked great.
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November 26, 2013 9:21:40 PM

chrisso said:
When I was a lad I had an rg500 suzuki import. It had a red light on the clocks that used to flash at 65mph. It was to let you know you were breaking the japanese speed limit. Black electrical tape worked great.


Why would you go faster than the speed limit or were you outside of Japan?
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November 26, 2013 9:23:22 PM

chrisso said:
When I was a lad I had an rg500 suzuki import. It had a red light on the clocks that used to flash at 65mph. It was to let you know you were breaking the japanese speed limit. Black electrical tape worked great.


Chrisso, you are my kinda mechanic; simple and effective fixes.
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November 26, 2013 9:40:57 PM

But that's the problem bro, I don't know which wire to cut. They are just all side by side, it's like a bomb. :(  If I cut the wrong one, the fan won't spin anymore. hahaha
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November 26, 2013 9:48:37 PM

The leds on my fans were secured with hot glue.
A few seconds with a heat gun and they came right out.
Then pulled the sticker back and desoldered the wires.

Now I have several leds that radio shack might sell for a few $$ a peice.
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November 26, 2013 9:52:03 PM

You can pull then out with pliers, you remove the excess wires and also if you want, you can reuse them else where, i rewired one into the heatsink of my cpu cooler :) 
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November 27, 2013 9:31:18 AM

Gam3r01 said:
If you go where the LED is, breaking one of the silver contacts that power it will disable it, also cutting the wires to the LEDs works too.


This was basically the solution, just cut off the silver contacts. :)  I cut the ground one just to be safe, and kept the positive still in contact. I was afraid that if I cut the positive, the positive contact from the pcb of the fan would throw SMALL electric disturbances. Thanks bro. :) 
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