NTSC Game Cube Dual Colour Power LED (Continued)
Now you'll need some wire to link up the LED to the switch at the rear of the console. You'll need three pieces of wire, one to carry the power to the switch, and another two for each positive leg, mmmonkey used some IDE cable, strip the ends of the wires and tin them by melting a small amount of solder to them. Leave one of the wires longer to reach the positive leg coming straight down the front of the circuit panel.
Solder one wire (the middle wire if you've used the IDE cable) to where the original LED got it's power from, then insulate it to stop the new positive legs shorting out on it later on. Make sure the insulation tape for the power lead doesn't cover the hole for the negative leg.
Now solder the LED into place, solder the negative leg into where the original LED's negative leg was and carefully trim the excess off, then solder the remaining leads to the positive legs of the LED, again - carefully trim the legs if needed. mmmonkey would probably try soldering the wires before putting the LED in place next time, the front positive LEG was awkward!
Now route the wires around to the region select switch, solder the power lead to the middle contact of the spare row of contacts on the switch, then solder the remaining leads to top and bottom contacts of the same row.
That's it, finished, put your cube back together, making sure you don't trap the wires.
mmmonkey then found it difficult to get a blue LED to show up blue on a digital camera, below are attempts to show the different colours of the LED (white for JPN mode, blue for USA mode).
