Cathode Install

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k so youve probably got a nice spangly new kit that looks something like this, my cathodes have already been modified to fit into my case and your kit may have either a sound controller or a switch on it. Either way, the cable with the molex pass thru on it is the one we will be using.

Oh yeah, and if you can't solder this tutorial is no use to you.

Anyway, see that molex pass through connector? chop that bad boy off, it aint needed.



from where you cut the molex adaptor off, strip the wires back a little, say 5mm or so, whatever your comfortable with. For reference, black is almost always ground, so whatever colour wires your kit comes with the black one will be ground and the coloured one will be 12v.



crack the soldering iron out and drop a little solder onto the end of each of the wires, this will make connectiong later on alot easier.



Grab your 360 and dismantle it, if you don't know how to do that then go here if you dont like that tutorial then visit the faq and there are a few more.

Pressing on...ok so hopefully youve managed to dissasemble your xbox, get your motherboard and flip it over and look for the area where the powerplug goes into, it looks like this.



Using the pic below identify the 12v and ground points. Soldering to these points is hard with a low powered iron so a good method of doing so is to lightly scratch at an area of the solder so its clean and shiny and then drop some solder onto it, like ive done in the picture below..



grab your wires and solder the black to the Gnd and the yellow (or whatever colour it is) to the 12v, this should be easy peasy since both parts have solder on them. Once done, put a little bit of electrical tape over it to stop any short that might occur.



once youve done that, flip the motherboard over and put it back in the case. It should look a little like this.



now im not going to go into any great detail as to where to mount the cathodes/switch/sound controller/inverter because it's completely up to you, the user, and every kit is different. Below are some pics of my setup, this works well for me, but it's completly up to you.

Anyway once youve done that, plug her in and fire it up, if all is good it should look a little something like this.







Hope this helps some people in need. Good Luck

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[Soapy]

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leave thanks guys.

[xl All Pro lx]

where did u get ur cathodes?

aw....no original xbox tutorial?

[xl All Pro lx]

lol it is n the xbox 360 section

Quote: Originally Posted by xl All Pro lx

lol it is n the xbox 360 section

so? still don't have an original one

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Solder the cathodes to the red and black wires connecting to the hdd.

[xl All Pro lx]

i just orderd the cathodes and ima put them n my 360 once they get here its gona look sweet . and does any 1 know where i can get a sheet of plexy glass?

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home depot?

[xl All Pro lx]

ok thanks i know i saw 1 on like llamma.com but its not up there anymore