Simple Xbox 360 Rapid Fire Mod

Step 5 Soldering Time

Heat up the soldering iron, not too hot or else it might break some components.

Point one and two are in pictures 2 and 3 respectively.
An final overview is in picture 4.
5 and 6 show the switch.
7 shows what happens when your iron is too hot and you take too long to make a joint.

Make sure wiring runs stay clear of the black button pads, analogue stick movement and screw holes.

Comments

[itzandy]

lol you melted your controller in pic 7

[TheRealNuge]

Hey guys Ineed your help. What do you solder the wire to when you solder the wire by D21? All I have is a LED Light. Is that what I Solder it to?
Thanks

[pogoman12345]

ok so the torx screws in the controller shown r different than the ones in mine. mine r the security screws with a pin in the middle. anyone know where i can get a security screwdriver small enough?

[rcgigessss]

you can find it in every hardware store and there its saiyng that its T8 but I have a T9 which is perfest 4 all the screws u want 2 untighten in xbox and accessories

[davidt123]

I just got a set of those security screw drill bits from my local hardware store. I had to grind the bit on the sides a little though to allow it to unscrew the screws in the bottom tips of the controller

[Acko619]

I used a small flat head screwdriver and chipped the little pin away, you canalso buy torx screwdrivers that have a hollow tip that are designed for those screws. hope that helps.

[pogoman12345]

thank you and yes it does help

[tickle my twat]

I think you really don't need the momentary button, the button acts like an on/off switch. If you solder the two spots together with a piece think wire long enough to reach both points i think it'll still work and you won't need to buy the momentary button and drilling a hole on your controllers frame. But if you dont buy a button the controller will shoot only rapid fire all the time unless you de-solder the wire and put new ones connecting to the push button.

[jrash]

Does it work on a wired controller?

[Unhappycampers]

do you have to solder the wire to the switch or just attach it?

[mayday295]

you just attach it, but soldering it ensure that it wont get disconnected, and makes the connection stable.

[Unhappycampers]

so soldering is the safe way to go?

[snowballxo]

I would solder it, then put tape around it ensuring you don't move the wire and create a short circuit.

[blindpyro]

how would that happen unless you are going in and out of the controller or you strip the wire back more than needed? Putting tape on every modified electronic junction is a newbs way of consuming time.

[mayday295]

I would say yes, i am very amateur at soldering, but this project is rather simple, and now i think i kind of got the hang of it.

[mstrpth]

WOW!! i'm an electronic engineer and some of you are killing me. some things that i thought were completely basic you guys don't know. 'where do i buy the switch'!! are you kidding me, use your head! 'does the color of the controller matter' c'mon.. if you are asking these kind of questions please get on ebay and buy a controller. you're just going to hurt yourself and probably burn your parants house down!

[blindpyro]

the color of the controller matters only if you can't find a red button...shhh they might fall for this.

[hellstudios]

People are seriously asking that...?


Just goes to show you what type of people buy game consoles like xbox 360s... and not to mention the xbox live community... >_>

[digitrunner]

rofl

[cdousley]

lol you are so right

[blindpyro]

Don't get me wrong, well made instruct, your biggest problem is the so called "good old gas". My weller 35 watt is overkill but I use it soo much that I can make due. For what you are doing, get yourself a 15 watt wired iron. Also I had a question for you, did you tin any of your wires?

[ShortbusX]

IMO it really is simpler to solder the second wire to the right rumble pin. I couldn't get my mod to work with the led soldering spot, but the rumble pin worked like a charm :O

[beauregardelijah]

do you have to weld the wires to the pins on the switch or what because im confused

[DrWeird117]

If I take out the rumble motors, will the mod still work? And be safe to use?

[btop]

If you were to just unplug them from the circuit board i see no reason why it wouldnt work.

[DrWeird117]

I melted the solder and took them off. Thanks. But now it won't turn on. I screwed up.

[coleyy]

maybe the power goes through them then goes to something else

[SUPERBROMO]

actually ive had this happen and it doesnt run through the rumblers it actually has to do with either the resistor which is key to this mod or your soldering if you burn the resistor it overloads the controller and it wont turn on or you put to much solder on one point and completely fried the port which means in either case you need to go out and buy a new controller.

[a7xcoreya7z]

Became member just to comment, when i touch a wire on the middle thingy sticking up it shoots and disconnects controller, this is with a switch tho like on/off im geting a button later ill try with it and then post on here if it works.

[Pale_Flyer]

you have a DPST i think is the right alphabet soup, it means the button can be "on" wither pushed, or not pushed. the center will be your power in, and the one side is the out. check this BEFORE you solder next time. all you need is a battery, a light/motor/buzzer, and some wire. then connect one end fo your ciruit to the center pin, and try one of the outer pins. if it turns on when it is depressed, GOOD JOB! if not, use the other pin

[jufreese]

The controller should be turned off when soldering the wires.

[Konstantinos709]

I'm about to do this mod for my controller.. and I want to be absolutely sure where exactly to solder onto the LED. Do I solder it on the LED itself, but on the very bottom left of it? Do I solder it into the hole below the LED 1? If it's in the hole, how in the world will I solder it into there? I'm really confused. Some help would be awesome! (pictures, links, detailed description?) Thank you so much!!

[austincox]

ok wtf i followed all you instructions and soldered to the led and the middle point but it doesn't work and now i cant even use the middle button and none off the leds come on HELP me

[imodxboxes]

LOL, bro yuo are supposed to solder right under the player 1 led, not on it...

[pleasemodcontroller]

I don't know 100% is this works, but I saw the rapid fire mod done with different solder points.  If you look at the third picture I can probably describe what I saw.  The three point solder point (the one that is soldered to the one in the middle of the three vertical) is good, but I saw the other wire was soldered to the point on the right of the two horizontal below the 3 vertical on that third picture.  
So solder.... O
                    O<
                    O
And then solder below that...
            O O
                ^
That way, the wires don't interfere with the LED.  That will probably work.
                

[scoie]

that is how i wired mine. that bottom solder point goes to the rumble pack. it works great.

[geodez]

F.

[judster]

ok ive followed everything to the tee. ive soldered to the correct places. what is happening now is: when the button i installed is pushed by itself, it does nothing. however when i press and hold the RT button then press the button i installed, it will shoot on the release of the installed button...so what did i do wrong?

[snarfmonky95]

I attempeted this mod the best i could, but im afraid that the wire i used was too small. Could that cause it not to bypass the triger properly?

[cdousley]

No