Cold Cathode light + LED fans?

dugrant153 · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:10 am Post subject: Cold Cathode light + LED fans?

Sooooo... I got 2 LED fans in my system lighting up the computer already.

I recently bought a cold cathode light, thinking that everything would turn out even cooler! Well, I put it in and there was almost no change to the case!

Do you need total darkness to see the cold cathode light?
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JayDubya · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:18 am Post subject:

If you can't see the lights something probably isn't working. Do you see any lights at all?
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dugrant153 · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:36 am Post subject:

Hoedizzy · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:39 am Post subject:

You should be seriously seeing some light there buddy.....sure everything is plugged in ok?

dugrant153 · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:43 am Post subject:

Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

if its a black light, it wont light up as much as a cold cathode light but you should still be able to see the light easily, if you hold it up outside of the case, it should light up everything thats white in the entire room, you shouldnt have to hold it close to the carpet. maybe its defective, or not getting enough power (ie. did you daisy chain your power cables?)

dugrant153 · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:51 am Post subject:

Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

daisy chaining means you plug one fan into a molex connector, then another, then another, then another, then another etc.. all on the same rail.

dugrant153 · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:21 am Post subject:

Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

then whatcha can try to make sure that its not a bad blacklight is, put it on its on rail and if its bright as it should be, get a fan controller to connect all your fans, this will clean up alot of the wires, and free up a rail or two.

dugrant153 · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:22 am Post subject:

well, I cleaned up my case by pushing all the wires behind the motherboard (tight fit).

Anyways, I tried it on it's own line and it still had the same effect.
Is it supposed to be super bright? cuz I'm getting sorta a dim whitening effect.
probably gonna return it anyways.
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Case is generic ATX, self-modded.

Xal · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:11 am Post subject:

put a piece of white paper in the case and see if that lights up with the UV, you may just have a good UV light in which case you just need to put a whole lot of uvreactive junk in your case

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dugrant153 · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:

I think that's the case.
But still, it's only a portion of my case that's lighted. The rest of it is dark. This light is supposed to be on the border of blinding when you look directly at the cathode, right?
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Case is generic ATX, self-modded.

[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject:

Ham_fisT · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:48 pm Post subject:

You get the best effect from UV ccfl's when there is very little other light inside your case, but there is a lot of UV reactive stuff, such as UV reactive Cable Sleeving, and Molex Connectors.

Also UV reactive Clear paint is cool to dot the tops of capacitors and things like that, they will really glow if there isn't much other light

the Best UV CCFL's put out very little visible light.
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