SUPPLIES BASICS
- Soldering Iron - 15W
- 30 AWG Wire Strippers - Not necessary but will help out a lot
- Resin Core Solde
- 1/16 -> 1/8 shrinkwrap and shrinkable tape - Necessary
- LEDs - All same color or specifications. Up to 3V Forward voltage
- Resistor - Calculated based upon LEDs. Lookup Resistor Calculator
- Sponge - Not necessary but helpful
- T8 Security Torx Skrewdriver
- 30 AWG hookup wire - 28 or 30 AWG is a must as the wire has to navigate the inside of the controller case

How to disassemble the controller:

1) Use the torx bit that comes with the smoke case you have purchased from decalgirl.com to remove the 7 torx skrews. Six surround the controller shell and one is located under a tiny barcode sticker at the base of where the battery pack plugs into the controller. Refer to the picture below to find the 7th hidden skrew. Removing the sticker that covers the skrew voids any warranty on the controller.



2) Press down on both trigger buttons as you separate the two sides of the controller, making sure the side with the buttons in it is facing down.

3) Gently remove the controller board and rumble motors without allowing them to hang on the wires connected to the board. Place the board and rumble motors on a clean / non conductive surface such as plastic / rubber.



4) now remove the rubber button padding that cover the xbox and abxy buttons. Also remove the padding for the dpad button. It is not necessary to remove the entire dpad button.

Set up all of your equiptment. Here are some pictures of my setup for reference.
I've found an old table separater to use as a soldering surface.
Plug in your soldering iron now to give it time to heat up.





There's a bit of strategy that comes into play here as there's numerous ways to do this mod. I've found there are several locations to place the LEDs s well.

The way that I suggest you start is buy simply bending the LED leads, keeping track of the positive (longer), so that the LEDs will fit in the locations you wish to place them in. You will have to trim the leads accordingly. Here are some pictures of what I'm taking about:





After laying out and trimming LED leads, it's time to start soldering the circuit together.

Some key points to remember. Tin the gun before you solder by melting some solder on the tip and cleaning the tip with a sponge. Clean leads and wires with sandpaper before tinning. Tin leads and wires before soldering them together. Don't use an abundance of solder, just enough to do the job. Make loop joints.

Run the wires first and cut them for close to exact length. Make sure to shrink wrap or tape all leads and solder joints to avoid any misfunctioning of the controller due to contact with the board.

Use 30 AWG wire by the left thumbstick or the LB button may hit the wires. 28 guage works well for the rest of the mod as it adds support for the LED placement. It may take several attempts to get the LEDs right where you want them. Put the case together without the skrews and try the LEDs to see if they are in a good position. If not, take it apart and bend the wires / leads to get them in place and try again. Take your time.

Here is where you run the wires. You will connect all the positive leads of the LEDs to each other and then to a resistor. all the negative leads will also be connected. This routing pattern allows for easy access to the coils at the back of the pack:



Here's the finished circuit in the controller before final taping and wrapping.
The resistor is wrapped and located at the middle right hand side of the picture next to the dpad:





Now you place the board back in and run the wires under the board, in the spaces outlined in this picture:



Put the back of the case on, running the wires through the hole in the back of the case, being careful to get the springs and the supports for the springs in the case correctly. When the case is together, trim the wires to a length that they can reach the oppossit spring and desheath the wire. Now push the wire into the opposite spring near the bottom of the coil. The positive goes in the terminal where the positive AA touches, the negative where the negative AA touches. Like this:





And here's what you get if you wired everything properly and none of the joints have broken upon installation:











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Great Tutorial man...A++

Great use of Spoilers to...

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this has "oh crap, now it wont work!!!" written all over it !!! lol you did an excellent job with steps and tutorial, but i guaruntee someones gunna mess it up lol. good post!

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That looks awesome.

im scare 2 do it

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yeah nice job good tut. but yeah some idiot is going to try this and fu*k up his controller lol but it look's cool :)

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nice nice i dont have a very steady hand so im not even gonna try it lol

got TUT tho :)

that is nice. xbox is the only system idont have. iwant halo3 .so ima probaly get :p but i like tha controlelr you did good .:]

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ok to help all noob who want to do this go to gamestop of where ever u can buy used games and shit and get a used controller so if u fuck up it isnt ur good controller :]

also dont try to fly through the steps take ur time thats where most people will fuck up!

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Look great but i cant get parts in Japan

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