Customer Reviews

Xbox 360 controller led mod RING OF LIGHT LEDS- BLUE

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

If you know what you are doing, these are some excellent LED's, and look great on your 360 Controller. However, be sure to buy from a trustworthy company. I would recommend purchasing from the seller "Brambhai" if at all possible. I originally bought from this seller and the LED's were excellent. Then I bought from several other sellers when it was no longer available from that seller, and the LED's were not anywhere as bright. It really affects the look of my controller as well.

Now down to installation. If you are new at soldering, I would not recommend you even try. They are difficult to install, considering they are so small and can't even be picked up with the pinch of your fingers. So not are they extremely difficult to see, but then you need to make sure you are installing them in the right direction. This means that you need to find out each of the 4 positive and negative directions on the board, then find out which is positive and negative on the LED itself. It can be quite hard. Also, it is a must that you stick with a low wattage soldering iron, anywhere between 25 and 40 watts should be sufficient. If you go too high, you could not only be melting the board, but the LED can melt extremely quickly. Also I would not recommend doing this alone. You'll need one person to hold down the LED with a pair of tweezers while the other solders it down.

But in the end, if you are successful, they look great. But like mentioned in the title, these are extremely overpriced here on Amazon. You need 4 LED's for the controller, and most sellers give you 5 in case you mess up or lose one (which they get lost a LOT). All for around $8.00 with shipping. But on one of Amazon's largest competing websites (you know what I am talking about), you can buy the same exact SMD 0603 LED's, 100 of them, for less than $12.00. I would recommend buying them from there.

I just wanted to say that if you don't solder for a hobby or actual solder for a job, DONT buy this. I have soldered probably about 5 things in my lifetime, which is 18 years, and this was incredibly difficult even with a soldering pencil. This reminds me, if you have anything bigger than a pencil, I will congratulate you for even getting the first LED working. This is obviously not impossible to do, you just need to have in between intermediate and advanced experience under your belt before you do this. I now have a controller with no LEDS, but it still works though. Also, expect it to take hours to do, this being dependable on experience obviously. Lastly, the price for the LEDs is cheap, but the shipping gets you and if you screw up, obviously thats another $50 or so down the drain for the controller. Hope this helps.

Like I mentioned before, if you do mess up and the LEDs don't work, before you smash your controller into tiny pieces or throw it away try to connect it to your xbox and try to play with it first. I did this right before I was going to throw it away and it worked fine, besides the LEDs of course.

...make sure you have a good soldering iron, pliers, and magnifying glass. It's very easy to mess them up if you are not careful. They are just a bit bigger than a grain of salt. Also, it's better if you have someone else helping you hold the led lights with pliers while you solder them to the board. And if you don't have a steady hand, forget it. They look really cool, if you are able to install them.

Let's just say that I am a fearless soldering god that now has a controller with no lghts and no terminals to connect the lights to. I orderd leds off of the customer's website for the buttons to cover it up though.

Product was fine, just very hard to put on. Unless your pro at soldering which I'm not... so one out of the four work.

Length:: 0:16 Mins

These leds work perfect on my Xbox 360 controller. I am brand new to soldering and I accomplished this myself! I am so happy about the product and the seller. The seller will help you if your leds are defective. They sent me a free set because they weren't working for me!

I purchased this set of LEDs for my first-ever controller mod project. There is an extra LED included (total of 5) in case you lose one, and this is quite handy because they are TINY. Once properly soldered to the controller's PC board, however, they functioned perfectly, and drew admiring looks and comments from my fellow gamers. My only complaint with this set is the price. I bought them when I was new to controller modding, and have since discovered that it is possible to find much lower per-LED costs elsewhere.

I liked it but I don't know how to set it up, it should come with an instruction manual of how to set it up and what you need to do so.

These are great lights... Im a novice solderer. They are not easy to install if you are new to soldering. If you are brand new to soldering, I would suggest getting a practice kit for surface soldering before attempting to install these yourself.. The only reason I give this a 3 star is because they arent the easiest to install. But great product overall!!!!!

The picture shows a bright blue LED with a luminosity rating of probably 380mcd, however the ones I received are more like 80mcd. I was very dissapointed with the shipping, and quality of this product. I would recommend ordering somewhere else where the product is described, not just pictured. My controller lights can barely be seen unless its dark. Now I have to order another set and go through the whole process again.