SE/30 HDD LED - Red or Yellow?

j2theLj

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #1

I’m putting together an optional SE/30 between two sub-optimal units and I discovered that one has a yellow HDD LED and the other had a red one (see pic).
Does anyone know which one is the earlier? Any other considerations regarding this?

 

Phipli

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #2

I've never seen a red LED in an SE/30 before, but earlier SEs had red LEDs.

I can't stand it - it feels like a warning light! I kept it, but made and fitted a replacement orange one for my SE.

My older 20SC has a red activity LED too.

 

Phipli

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #3

Btw, the "yellow" one is amber when lit.

 

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cheesestraws

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #4

The only right answer, of course, is purple.

 

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Cam

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #5

Purple is good, unless you have a BlueSCSI installed, then you obviously need a blue LED.

 

KGLlewellyn

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #6

SE/30s have always had yellow/amber LED's in my experience. Mine has one, although it hasn't been lit in around 23 years as my father swapped out the SCSI drive for a much larger one that didn't have a header for the activity LED.

SE and 20SC's yeah they had red ones.

Personally I like to go for stock appearance, so I'd replace LED's like for like.

 

Phipli

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #7

cheesestraws said:

The only right answer, of course, is purple.

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Well.... what about the stock IIci pink?

 

j2theLj

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #8

I should really have blue then with my BlueSCSI! Maybe in time, but until then I’ll go for amber, red does feel like some kind of warning.

 

timtiger

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #9

If you keep the stock housing, stay with amber or orange.

If you put it into a colored MacEffect case, choose the led color accordingly

 

timtiger

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #10

Phipli said:

IIci pink

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It’s pink, really? The led in my ci was amber, too…

 

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joshc

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• Jan 4, 2023

• #11

SE/30s could be red, amber or green from the factory I think. Not sure what the reason was, or which came first. These days, just use whatever colour you prefer.

 

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rollmastr

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• Jan 5, 2023

• #12

As far as I know the earlier SEs came with red LEDs, while SE FDHDs and SE/30s usually came with amber LEDs.

 

volvo242gt

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• Jan 5, 2023

• #13

The aftermarket bracket I pulled from my SE when I did the dual FDHD conversion had a red LED installed. Most of my other SE machines had green LEDs on their OEM hard drive brackets.

 

ironborn65

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• Jan 5, 2023

• #14

in my two SE FDHD the LED is amber
in my SE/30 it's red just like in the pic above

 

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ymk

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• Jan 17, 2024

• #15

My SE/30 had no LED, but my SE FDHD had amber from the factory.

Amber is nice. Red should be reserved for malfunctions. Blue, for rare conditions, because it's tacky.

 

pfuentes69

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• Jan 17, 2024

• #16

Mine has it green... but I have vague souvenirs of not having it initially and transplanting it from an SE I had time ago.

 

Phipli

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• Jan 17, 2024

• #17

Mine now depends on which of the two disks it is accessing

 

pfuentes69

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• Jan 17, 2024

• #18

Phipli said:

Mine now depends on which of the two disks it is accessing

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Brilliant !

 

Scott Baret

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• Jan 17, 2024

• #19

From my experience:

The early SE had red, which I usually have seen paired with a MiniScribe.
Sometime around the SE/30 launch, amber began to be used quite frequently.
Green is a rare color in the SE line but I've seen it on an OEM drive (including in the SuperDrive model).

Most SE/30s I've seen have the amber light.

On that note, does anyone have a good source for the LED with the correct plug for the Quantum ProDrive LPS/EPS? Most of the stock SE LEDs are too large to fit them.

 

Phipli

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• Jan 17, 2024

• #20

Scott Baret said:

On that note, does anyone have a good source for the LED with the correct plug for the Quantum ProDrive LPS/EPS? Most of the stock SE LEDs are too large to fit them.

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Which connector is that, do you have a photo? The three I've seen are 2.54mm, 2mm and... A weird JST thing with wings on the connector.

If it is a 2mm, you're after a 2mm Dupont connector. If it is the third, I never worked out exactly what the part was. Found one in a scrap box.