Mouse Fan Question!

[Will Eatforfood]

How do you hack into the 5v of the mouse...Which color wires would I hook the positive and negative ends of the fan to?

 

[axlecrusher]

Do you ave a volt meter? I would just use one to test all the wires. I would use black as the ground.

Axle

 

[pik4chu]

if you look on the PCB of the mouse it sometimes is labeled as V+, GND, etc. if you dont have a multimeter

 

[Veland]

What type of mouse? PS/2 or USB?

Measuring PS/2 mice can be difficult as also the datalines can be at 5V, but can not support a fan. Also look at the PCB, often you can trace "what goes where" and guesstimate what the +5V line is..

 

[Captain Slug]

*opening his modified PS/2 mouse to find out

The wires are Orange, White, Yellow, Blue, and Back


Orange is 5V+ with upto 100ma (average, this is what my LEDs are wired to and they work fine

Yellow is 5V+ but won't run enough aperage so it's presumably a data line

Black is ground


If you're trying to wire a USB or optical mouse I highly recommend that you buy a multimeter. For optical mice it's best to wire your extra devices + line to the middle leg of the MOSFET (black thing with 3 legs attached somewhere on the PCB). This is what controls the voltage of the light used for the tracking camera.

 

[n3xu5]

How do you hack into the 5v of the mouse...Which color wires would I hook the positive and negative ends of the fan to?

a Mouse FAN?? are you serious? what are the advantages of a mouse having a fan besides it looking semi cool and having accomplished putting a fan ona device that hardly gets hot?

 

[Mico]

Hand cooling, mate. Gets rid of those sweaty palms.

 

[Will Eatforfood]

hehe

I'm not going to be cooling the mice, since it is impossible for it to burn up--------errr*thinks volt mod*---------the fan is to cool sweaty fingers.My comp is used to frag, I get hot hands.I react faster when cold.....I'm addig more LEDs, and probably a light up mouse pad......somehow....



Darn You beat me to it!!!!

 

[Veland]

Just like this front page article. The fact it's MY front page article is no reason at all why I'm posting the link..

 

[macklin01]

Indeed, I loved that article! I've been tempted many, many times to give that a try ... -- Paul

 

[Veland]

Thanks!

And that from someone as "famous" as you..

 

[Penguin4x4]

Also, if you're lookin for some 5V fans, look no further than 2CoolTek,

 

[Blueacid]

Would the load of the fan perhaps contribute to erratic mouse performance??

I mean, they draw a couple of watts, but a mouse will draw about 50milliwatts - maybe this is too much for the leads etc?

 

[NcBaller1985]

I might be trying that mod soon...once I get my new Logitech. I'll give it a try on my old Microsoft optical mouse. And yes, it is a very nice write up on the front page!!!