[12voltsdc]

That fan controller...

[Donta1979]

Romka posted:

Jesus Christ!

Hmm, now that you took a 10 PCI slots rear panel for the case, you could've gone for a HPTX standard motherboard tray, instead of just ATX or eATX. I wonder if it's even possible with such a case.

Its XL-ATX with a Gigabyte G1.Assassin motherboard also XL-ATX=)

[DrBreen]

This thread is fucking beautiful, you are all fucking beautiful

I can't weld for shit.. Practice makes perfect though.. My uncle is really pro at these things, master welder. he once told me "I can weld anything but broken hearts", really great guy.~

anyways congratulations on integrating water cooling inside the case itself, ingenious. i'm wondering though, since i've never ventured into h2o, how long untill you gotta clean the tank\filter(does it even have filters? i suppose not) or change water?

[Foxconn]

You, sir, are a winrar.

A creative, intelligent winrar.

[clenceo]

Romka posted:

Update!

electronics Master Control Board test





This is the heart of a DELL XPS 730 case, the Master Control Board (MCB). Has like double the size of an Apple iphone. This unit controls all the case LEDs, 3 ventilation fans, LED indicators and the power button. It's connected to the motherboard via the PWR BTN, HDD LED, PWR LED and USB plugs for the digital control.




This board needs also a power connection and as always DELL has made some kind of own plug for it.




Luckily it shares the same plug pattern a standard ATX motherboard power plug. Also it shares one special wire from the ATX power plug, that no other plug on a normal PSU has. So the best way to make an adapter for it was to create Y-wires from the ATX extension, since it has every voltage order it needs.




Of course it needs to be trimmed.




So we got ourselves some cable. (this is 100 meters of cables... and needed like 10-14 meters for my needs :P )




I needed all those pins to be taken out of the ATX power extension and 10 more.




Y-cables like these had to be created.




Took me all day...




But I wasn't even finished.




The open wire spots had to be covered up. So shrink hose and cable sleeving did the job.




Unfortunately I didn't have enough sleeve length to cover all 34 cables up. I'll finish the job when I've ordered some more.




The finished MCB power plug.




Making everything ready for a first rough functionality test. This is the original XPS 720 front panel and power button upside down.




First test results were positive, everything worked just fine! :)




Then I tested one of the LED units. Glowing in 100% RGB (white) - default setting when no color tone has been set yet.


Now I have to finish the restly cable stuff like the LED indicators, main LEDs and sleeving of course, to cover up the not so nice spots on the cables. :)

Hello! I've following your project for some time. I initially began my own project with an XPS 720 H2C, but it works great, so I didnt want to mess with it. I later picked up a silver xps 720 case, but dont have the time for modding. I finally picked up an XPS 730x case w/ a power supply & MCB.
I completed fashioning a pin Y cable for the power supply to motherboard MCB. I connected to power header from the MCB to mother board and proceeded to make basic connections for a test run. I hit the power switch, CPU fan spins for a split second and I can hear the relays in the Power supply cycling, one green led cycles along with the power supply. I cant figure out what I did wrong and my connections are right on.
Any ideas?
Thanks

[Flarey]

these cases are about 20kg without anything in them

[Del91]

This thread is full of Pornography.

[Romka]

clenceo posted:

Hello! I've following your project for some time. I initially began my own project with an XPS 720 H2C, but it works great, so I didnt want to mess with it. I later picked up a silver xps 720 case, but dont have the time for modding. I finally picked up an XPS 730x case w/ a power supply & MCB.
I completed fashioning a pin Y cable for the power supply to motherboard MCB. I connected to power header from the MCB to mother board and proceeded to make basic connections for a test run. I hit the power switch, CPU fan spins for a split second and I can hear the relays in the Power supply cycling, one green led cycles along with the power supply. I cant figure out what I did wrong and my connections are right on.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Can you verify that the MCB is not broken by using original components? That means: having the original 730 PSU connected to it and an ATX motherboard and then trying to switch it on.

Flarey posted:

these cases are about 20kg without anything in them

My rig is now 30kg btw. :)

[clenceo]

I ended up buying a working Silver XPS 730 for $100. Installed my CPU and good to go. Funny thing is, I've acquired so many parts. A red XPS 730x case, a silver XPS 720 case and a working XPS 720 H2C. All of which I need to sell ASAP!! These cases are huge and take up A LOT of space!