so today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of a popular PC modding item and that is
a dual 12-in cold cathode kit so basically what this is it's a way of
lighting up your PC the particular one I have here today is a UV cold cathode kit
so you can get it in a variety of colors including blue red green purple yellow
white and UV now the difference between purple and UV is purple is actually
intended to throw purple light into your case so your whole PC will glow out
purple whereas a US V cathode kit is
more designed to allow UV reactive things inside your case to Glow whatever
color they happen to be so I mean if you
look directly at a UV cathode it will look purple but the main purpose of it
is to be a black light so if you're looking for something that will actually light up your case you're looking for a
color other than this one so why don't I explain everything that comes with it
first of all you've got five pieces of velcro four small ones and one big one
the four small ones are for using at either end of the cathodes and then
mounting them to something in your case so you stick them on really the the
velcro that's included isn't great quality I'd recommend picking up some double-sided tape or some industrial
velcro from your hardware store if you really want them to stay put however the
big ones usually okay and you use that to mount the inverter now what an
inverter is is it's a device for taking the 12vt power from your power supply
and converting that into something that these cathodes can use because these run
on AC power which is is more like the power that you'd find in your walls so
basically you're taking your power your computer power supply you're turning AC
into DC then you're taking that DC power putting it into here and putting it back
into AC it seems very roundabout but it's the best way to run cathodes in
your PC so these are the cathodes themselves they're 12 in long or 30 cm
long they come with little white wires attached to them I've experimented with
uh ways of making these look nicer you can sleeve them quite easily so that's a
really easy way to make them look better but you can't really lengthen them very much because what tends to happen is the
one that you try to splice more wire into will be more dim so it's um very
strange it shouldn't shouldn't be that way but it is anyway I have another kit
on hand that I've already got set up here and I'm just going to show you what
it looks like so that is a UV kit you can see it doesn't throw off a whole lot
of light compared to the other ones but you do have the advantage as I showed in
my modmart SATA cable unboxing of making
other stuff glow so that effect is very
cool thank you for checking out my unboxing of the logus 12in cold cathodes