Collective Minds Xbox One Media Hub LED replacement mod

[Dreamcazman]

Hi guys, thanks to Aselwyn I received my media hub the other day.




For some unknown reason, the units come with a green LED which looks completely out of place when every other LED is white, so I replaced it.




Ok, I grabbed a 3mm white LED from the local electronics shop yesterday, you'd want the least brightest one you can find, in my case it was 1000mcd.

Few pics before starting work, in case anyone was interested of what the insides look like. Basically just a USB hub with a USB-SATA adaptor all in one board.






After a bit of mucking around trying different resistor values, I resorted to using a 10K resistor. By default the white LED is way too bright and distracting if you're playing in a dark room.
With the resistor, the brightness is more in line with the main Xbox logo LED.




All done, much better.




A fairly straight forward modification, but if you have any questions, let me know.