Hey all! I have a question about adding some additional LED strips to an already backlit keyboard on my Alienware M17 laptop.

Because of some crazy events involving heavy falling objects and burning nachos, I have had to order a replacement keyboard from Alienware (it should be arriving sometime this week, yay).

My question is : Would it be possible to take the 2 LED strips out of the old keyboard and add them to the new one to give the backlighting a bit of extra "oomf"?

Currently, the backlighting is so dim it's nearly useless, but I think it has some potential to be really nice. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this? Would I have to divert power from elsewhere in the laptop to power the extra LED's?

Thanks very much! Any ideas are greatly appreciated!