Sweet UV fan tutorial

[MikeSty]

Props to hackaday:

http://www.dvhardware.net/modules.ph...rticle&artid=2

The cold cathode really makes it look extra speshul, but that's pretty nifty.

[Lasereth]

I think UV lights are the coolest PC lighting around. Here's my PC with 3 UV cathodes and UV cables:

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[Wingless]

Wow Las, your case is 100x less cluttered than mine, I've gotta ditch the ribbon-type cables. Very cool!

[MikeSty]

Wow Las, shees, that makes my nubby UV case look... welll.... nubby! That's an unbelievable fine job you've done there, it looks perfect. I like the split sheathing on the molex plugs too!!! All your stuff has that "perfect" UV glow - got any links to the particular parts or paints or whatever you used? I'm inspired

Ribbon cables FTL! I replaced mine with dinky little UV IDE thingy and it's very nice

[Lasereth]

Originally Posted by Wingless

Wow Las, your case is 100x less cluttered than mine, I've gotta ditch the ribbon-type cables. Very cool!

Originally Posted by MikeSty

Wow Las, shees, that makes my nubby UV case look... welll.... nubby! That's an unbelievable fine job you've done there, it looks perfect. I like the split sheathing on the molex plugs too!!! All your stuff has that "perfect" UV glow - got any links to the particular parts or paints or whatever you used? I'm inspired

Ribbon cables FTL! I replaced mine with dinky little UV IDE thingy and it's very nice

Thanks for the compliments guys. I know exactly what ya mean, Mike. Some UV cables look like a "fake" or "painted" UV glow while the ones I use have almost a neon light glow. I had to order quite a few different cables (I waited until I found them on sale) to find out which ones had the glow I was looking for. It's been over a year since I found the perfect UV cables I use. I hope I can find them for sale again! I'll edit this post when I've gathered the correct links.

*EDIT* Here's the IDE cables I use...note that the site has many different types of UV cables, but these are the best looking by far. They are silver under regular light and blue under UV. http://www.directron.com/uvide.html Note that the silver reg/blue UV cables are the best...the others have the "painted" UV look.

And here are the UV green molex splitters: http://www.directron.com/color3piny.html Note that the green splitters look the best. The red are decent, but not nearly cool as the green ones.

-Lasereth

[MikeSty]

Hmmmm, I think I like those. My red/pink UV cables are mehhh. It just looks like shit and i don't like it very much. ATM I have the following:

Two UV green fans in the rear of the case (keeping, they rock)
Pink, rounded off IDE cable (Ehhhhhh.....)
Two Pink SATA data cables (ehhhhhhhh... )
Green molex splitter (purposeless)

I think imma get rid of the red, it just doesn't have a very nice cherry glow to it that I wanted it to have. It's just a fruity pink. It looks cool but not that sexy glow. The molex splitter is usleesssssss. Dman I'm so stupid.

I think i want to do the following:

Paint the CPU fan green
Replace the cables with silver/blue
Sleeve the cables coming out of the PSU, or just buy a new PSU because mine is boring

[Lasereth]

A few more tips based on my wasted money :

UV fans look really cool in computers, but the UV reaction emminating off of the actual fan causes UV cables to react at around 60% usual brightness. In other words, the fans are reacting to the UV so heavily that the cables reactiveness is being drowned out. I took out my UV fans and it made my cables look much, much better.

Another thing: I bought the PSU sleeving kits that make your entire PSU cable setup UV. Suck. The UV glow from the sleeving kits is the fake UV I mentioned earlier. I stripped it off of my PSU and left it normal. It looked really cheesy with the extra neon cables I found.

-Lasereth

[Redjake]

The thing Lasereth mentioned above is what you have to <b>live</b> by when it comes to UV. I'll try to explain it even simpler: Let's say you have a green UV reactive fan in your case, with a UV cathode. You turn on the UV cathode light, and it illuminates your green UV fan. However, instead of the awesome UV brightness from the fan, the UV is drowned out by the <b>green</b> light that is coming off of the fan. It actually lessens the UV light because of the green light "taking over." You have to keep small pieces of UV in your case. Notice Lasereth's PC has no large UV parts (such as fans) that could reflect the wrong color that would drown out UV light. That's why his looks so fucking cool!

Basically, keep your UV reactive items in your case small. That's my advice. I'll post pictures of mine as soon as I get some more cathodes (my transformer boxes went bad).

[Wingless]

So basically, think small for big results. Cool! It's awesome, but honestly I'd probably never do it myself. I'd rather have a "sleeper" machine

[Lasereth]

Originally Posted by Wingless

So basically, think small for big results. Cool! It's awesome, but honestly I'd probably never do it myself. I'd rather have a "sleeper" machine

A couple of years ago I built a "sleeper machine." About two months later I ended up with what I have now. At college, people idolize you when you have a cool computer. I can't see myself spending money to have a "cool computer" after college though. I'll definitely still have a nice computer, but when there's no one to say how cool your PC is then the novelty wears off.

-Lasereth

[MikeSty]

Psh, coolness ain't measured in fancy lights - it's counter strike FPS