do any of you pimps have any experiance in opening a linksys wrt54gs router? this one or a wrt54g or anything like it? im tryin to get inside mine, but its a pain and dont want to break it in the process...any sugestions?

I've got a BEFW11S4, if the enclosure is the same (which it appears to be) they open pretty easily. The blue face is held on by some plastic tabs molded into it on the sides. I just gave mine a firm pull on one side and it popped open... no screws or anything. I'll see if I can find my old digital camera if you need pics.

EDIT: Pics!

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Can I ask what you are goin to do? hmm me thinks painting... :-)

Quote: Originally Posted by Dreyco Can I ask what you are goin to do? hmm me thinks painting... :-)

I was thinkin' along the lines of swapping the LEDs.... or both.... so, which is it?

you guys are part right. i got it open (thanks CRE) and am thinking LED swap, paint, a little fan (the freakin thing gets hot after a few hours off operation) at super low voltage so it makes no noise, some of my extra BGA copper heatsinks, and a window of unknown design. i was thinkin of makin it a Linkin Park theme, as they are my favorite band. and the biggest part of this whole thing, is iv never REALY done any of this before, so its practice for my case.

oh and btw, anyone got any ideas of where to attach hte powerconnectors of my 40mm fan? would right off hte power cable thing work? with the proper resister and such? or owuld that draw to much power away fromt the router? theres not many other places to attach it.

Thanks

*bump* any help?

Check the power suppy, it sould have the voltage it supplies labeled. If I remember correctly, the adapter for mine only supplies about 5 volt, which unfortunately is typically do little for a 12v fan to start up. You may want to look into getting a fan with a lower voltage requirement. I think anything with a requirement of 9v or less would do.

I wouldn't go looking along for a spot which is running at 12v, since you don't know how much current the circuit was built to supply...

As for painting...

Use Krylon Fusion (thanks Zer0s) Then use Blue Scotch painters tape, with a sharp exato you should have no problem with painting... :-)

Show pic when you are done, id like to do something similar...

yeah, planned on useing fusion, but i have an airbrush too, so i could do a base fusion, airbrush somthing cool on( hopefully) and hten clear coat the crap out of it....il look for a lower voltage fan too...just bought a hdd cooler for its fans too...stupid 12v crap...

Well, you could look into getting another power adapter which supplies 7 volts or more.... I've always got those things lying around... save 'em up, come in handy for similar projects.

would a larger addapter hurt the router? wouldnt the extra voltage fry it?

YES, and YES , BAD IDEA!!!

ive seen things like that pimped out i'll find yah some links or Pics and post them here for yah!

Yeah... I didn't mean using it in place of the factory one. I mean adding a second one with it's own connection in back.

LoL windows on routers... wow maybe its just me but I dont like looking at the electronics inside I think they are ugly and boring :-/ but thats me I would just stencil the hell out of it!

ok, so i could hook up an additonal dc power, but could i just get like a 25v dc connector and split power between router, fan and leds so router still only got 12v?

You can hook up an extra power supply, just for the fans. Take a look at this. Or you can go with some low voltage, low current fans, like this, this, or this. That site is great .

They have fans, heatsinks, leds, resistors, soldering guns, powersupplies, etc.

ok, iv attached images to help me explain what im thinking

image 1 has one 24-30v power addapter to the router, that splits the juice between router, fans and leds (this is the prefered set up)

image 2 has two 12v power addapters, one for router (stock) and the other i add to power fan and leds

will image 1 work? or will i need to go with image 2?

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If I were you, I would stick to the 12v powersupply. Get a higher amp model if you really need it. Going with 24v will only overvolt the fans, you would have to hook it up in odd configurations to get it down to 12v again, when with a 12v one, all you have to do is run it all together.

That's my 2cents.

Does the power supply that came with your router supply 12v?

yeah it dose, but wouldnt a 12v router and a 12ish v fan + a pair of 1.8v leds = > 12v? i just dont think hte router supply of 12 would be sufficent for all of it, unless i dnt understand the whole thing as well as i think i do....