Hi, i bought a farbwerk to add to my aquaero system, and i wanted to replicate the hdd led illumintation on my farbwerk channel 1,
so to do that i connected the hdd led output to the farbwerk sensor1 input (connected the ground to the ground and the hddled plus pins from the motehr bord to the signal pins on the farbwerk)

then on the configuration i put 3.3V measurement and i put a range of color.

i did a test with a 1.5v AA battery and it seems to works fine but few weeks after i try this and connect it to the hdd led, it seems not to works.

the input value is allways 99 or 100 % (i don't remember and it's on my pc not this laptop)

so can the farbwerk perform that (replicate the hdd led light on one channel) and if yes what i've done wrong ??

thanks

And what if i put a Case hdd led in serial on the + wire ???
do you think that would be enough ?

or do i have to put the led in // (connecting the led to the motherboard and connect the farbwerk wires on top of the led reading the values at both wires of the led).

thanks

Quoted from "Shoggy"

It should work if you connect the regular HDD LED. The measured voltage depends on the LED. Different colors usually use different voltages. So you will maybe have to play a bit around with the values for the voltage range in the aquasuite to accomplish the correct behavior.

I tried that, connect a led to the mother board and connect the wire to the farbwerk also and selct sensor as voltage reading.
The problem is that with taht the LED is always lightened when i connect teh wires to the farbwerk.
if i remove them the led flash as usual according to the HDD activity.

i took my multimeter and checked on the farbwerk sensor pin: there is allways 3.3V between pin 1 and 2 of the sensor pins (didn't check on other sensor pins).
As i would expect it on the resistance reading mode or temperature mode, i did not expect taht on voltage reading...
tryed in ADC value, same thing

do you confirm this is the standard behavior or is my unit faulty ?

thanks

Quoted from "Shoggy"

Quoted from "psychotik2k3"

do you confirm this is the standard behavior or is my unit faulty ?

According to our electronic technician it will not work with your mainboard since it seems to use a different way to supply the voltage for the LED.

I'm sorry but i don't think i'ts my motherboard the problem,
if i took my voltmeter and check the voltage between sensor pins 1 and 2 on the farbwerk i have 3.3v even if i select the voltage measurement.
For me the problem is there, as that means taht teh farbwerk cannot monitor external voltage source.

it acts like it's reading resistance whatever the configuration i choose.

my motherboard on the hdd led pins send a voltage only when it wants to lights the led (and i measured 2.76 volts dc when the led is lighted)