My (aluminium bezel/silver) Centurion case is really a work in progress... at this point I needed/wanted to add a 3.5" drive (help fill up one of the 3.5" bays ), but looking around all I could find primarily were beige & black fascia drive's, at a local swap meet I found a silver one but after purchasing it... it really didn't fit in with the case too well (green LED indicator/silver finish ), so I went the route of the modder that I should've in the first place!

My weapons of choice...

To replace the drive's original LED indicator

For that Super Chrome finish!

The LED removal was made easy, thanks to my ever trusty solder sucker a little swap-a-rooney for the LED's and a squirt of paint and voila! done, what do you guys think of the finish?



Note the inset night shot

Very classy.

Wow! When I first saw that shot of the blue LED I thought it was a blowtorch and we were going to be treated to another (in)famous Taz mod involving flames

Very nice looking mod there Taz!

yeah i agree i thought we were getting another true fire mod lol

and yes Taz it looks great do you use that led as a night light lol

I to like the fire shots . the mod looks really nice What size led and what voltage. that looks like something i could try and not worry about screwing up.

Very nice looking indeed.

Looking good man. Paint matches the case dead on looks like you bought a special floopy made just for that case.

Nicely done. Good job.

I bought the high intensity LED, to match the already bright case power indicator... and to answer Bishops' question, no it doesn't get used as a night light (though either it or the power ON LED would do nicely ) and the computers have a room all to themselves nowadays

SPECIFICATIONS
Lens Size: 3mm Round
Emission: Super Blue
Output @ 20mA: 220mcd (min), 700mcd (max)
Lens Type: Water Clear Epoxy
Peak Emission Wavelength: 468nm
Dominant Wavelength: 470nm
Forward Voltage: 3.5V (typical), 4.0V (max)
Viewing Angle: 18°
Forward Current: 30mA
Reverse Current: 50uA @ 5V
Power Dissipation: 120mW
Peak Forward Current Duty Cycle 1/10 @ 1kHz: 100mA




Thanks... I think I fluked the finish though

Cool idea *bending over to the drives* might do that thnx