christmas lights for case lighting

[poppedkernel]

Back when my parents used to string every tree in my yard (about 6) from top to bottom with christmas lights and create a electric bill that paid off the tuition of every child of an electric company worker, we had a massive amounts of lights. Now, because my parents have grown uninterested and just said "screw it" we have half of our 2 car garage filled up with un-used lights, all of which are 12v. and i was wondering if there was any way to hook these up to my psu, and power them.

 

[stool]

As long as you are positive that they're 12v, all you have to do is find yourself a male molex connector. Use only the yellow/black connection and hook them up to the cables from the christmas lights, then into your PSU. In other words, strip back the wires a bit to enable a connection. Please be very careful with this, as I've personally never run into christmas lights that were 12v, so do this at your own risk.

 

[poppedkernel]

il look on the boxes and for extra safety use an old 250w psu out of one of my old dells. if the psu lives, then i got accent lighting.... if it dies... well at east I diddn't fry anything important.

 

[shinkansen]

Keep in mind that those little Christmas lights generate some heat. Not much, but a lot more than CCFLs or LEDs.

 

[poppedkernel]

yeah, I decided not to try it, I have better uses for my old PSUs than to destroy them like that lol