Lithium Power Upgrade Q's

[Mister_Anderson]

There is only one yellow wire on the main twenty-pin plug. There are other yellow wires on other plugs. Some have 4 pins in a row and have 4 conectors on the same wire. What plugs on my charger would I have to hook up to which wires?
Thanks,
Chris

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by Mister_Anderson

There is only one yellow wire on the main twenty-pin plug. There are other yellow wires on other plugs. Some have 4 pins in a row and have 4 conectors on the same wire. What plugs on my charger would I have to hook up to which wires?
Thanks,
Chris

These are the needed colored wires:
yellow=12v
orange=3.3v
red=5v
green=power on
black= ground

All the wires of the same color (and guage) go to the same point in the PS even though they are on seperate plugs. So, once you cut the plugs off everything, all the like colored (and guage) wires can be tied together.

This is what I did:

- Opened up the power supply
- Cut all the plugs off the wires (leave them as long as possible)
- Pull all the wires through the hole in the case.
- I gathered and twisted together all the orange wires, red wires, and yellow wires together in seperate colored bundles. You only need the yellow ones, but I created bundles for 5v and 3.3v for any future projects.
- I counted out a black wire for each of the different color wires, bundled them, and brought them out of the power supply case back through the hole. So, if I had 8 yellow wires, I would count out 8 black wires; if I had 4 red wires, I used 4 black; and so on.
- I used braided sheathing to group and tidy up the colored wire bundles with equal number black wires, but zip-ties work well too.
- Strip each wire, twist all like colors together, and solder to a Deans connector (or one of your choice).
- Do you have a switch in the back of your PS?
If yes; inside the PS, cut the green wire and one of the black wires short, solder together, and heatshrink the connection.
If not; twist a black wire and the green wire together, bring out of the case, and attach a SPST switch.
- Cut the rest of the wires short (should just have a few) and heatshrink the ends so they won't short on anything inside the PS.
- Once you are done, you should have only the necessary wires coming out of the power supply with all the non-essential ones shortened and tucked away inside.

I see if I can post a picture when I get home so you can see what I'm talking about. Depends on my ancient dig camera...