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curse for more details welcome to an unboxing of something that's actually a
little bit tricky to find because you can't just go to the Local Best Buy and
buy ice mods lighting Products but uh
Mundy from Ice mods reached out and sent
over a couple of his okay it's ice mods with a z a couple of his ice mods lights
so one of them is UV and the other one is a clear one he's also got some other
cool new stuff coming so he's adding black pcbs he's adding um sort of
multicolored ones which are going to be pretty cool as well so basically really
small company you can order from them directly based in Iceland or something I
believe so we're going to go ahead and check out what he's sent over for us to
take a look at now one of the other things that ice mods does is cable sleeving so I'm expecting the sleeving
on these to be absolutely exceptional and it looks like my expectations are
pretty much 100% dead on that is some of
the schiestle I've ever seen on a product
that comes out of the box you can't see through it at all it is an extremely
tight weave and it's multicolored so there's actually a gray strip a black
strip a gray strip a black strip uh he's also done a really good job I can see
here of of covering up the way that the
cable itself is attached to the LED strip now ice mods isn't the only
company in the world to do LED strips but I can tell you right now based on my
experience with the uh the phobia ones
which are not attached very securely like you could probably go like this and
if you did that maybe four five six times uh you could probably break them
off pretty consistently whereas these strips have much larger contact pads for
soldering so uh so yeah that's a good thing also the way that he's achieved
his waterproofness is uh by adding there we
go a silicone looks like sleeve over top personally I find I prefer to take those
off since I'm not usually going to be immersing the LED strips in water but uh
you can see how that's sealed around the edges and then this is sealed around the
edges as well so white PCB for now so I want to go ahead and show you guys the
rig that thanks Rumble uh the rig that I'm going to be installing these in so
I'm going to do the UV one on top up
here so that I get some nice UV glow from the tubing you can see these are
quite long strips I believe these are 45
cm 30 I mean whatever they're they're pretty long so you can see how long they
are they're about sort of a Linus uh elbow to to fingertip in terms of the
actual length so let's go ahead and light them up uh okay this rig needs a
power adapter yes I'll do something with the cable
management later but uh okay we got a little he included one adapter for me
I'm assuming if you actually buy them you get an adapter with each one so
let's go ahead and plug this bad boy in
and it doesn't work no I'm just kidding computer's not on that's always the
first thing you want to check very nice extremely bright UV effect so you can
see even in the daylight of this room just installing the strip in the top uh
what I'll probably have to do is get it so it doesn't go right over the radiator
gives us a strong UV glow from all of that blue tubing in there that looks
really nice actually so even from a distance of about here you can see UV
not UV UV not UV I would definitely
recommend getting some distance between the UV strip and the items that you that
you are want to flues and then the other thing is as well you don't want to
position this such that you're going to see it through the actual case cuz
they're pretty much like painful to look at they're extremely bright um as is
true of of many of these UV strips that are available out there so the other one
we have here is nice long uh nice long sleeved cables on these as well that was
one of the other issues I had with the other ones that I had used in my own rig
they had very very short cables on them so those are wow yeah you're not even
going to be able to look at these but I think uh okay well here so without them
and then like with them so go ahead and
put that down here where I would probably position it you can actually cut them to length which is sort of neat
I'll show you that on this one so uh there should be scissor marks on here
somewhere oh hold on I don't know if this one yep okay so at all of these
spots it looks like you can cut them off
so you can cut them to whatever length you want and that is true of the white
one as well although it's marked in a slightly different way so there's an actual scissor line on there so you you
can cut that off so I won't be able to use probably the full length so I'll go
along the bottom with the white and then I want some UV in the top so I'm going
to have to cut probably one or two segments off of this guy let's go ahead
and plug that back in so we can see what the case lighting will look like LED
strips are so much more practical than cathodes for a couple of reasons so
number one is that they are much lower profile number two is you don't have to
have a large bulky inverter to to convert from 12vt DC to 20 volt AC and
actually I don't even know if it's 120 volt AC but it's AC for sure I have no
idea what voltage it's running at but um I think that's pretty much it thanks for
checking out this unboxing oh I he includes adhesive strips but they might
have fallen out of the envelope when I was fussing around with them so yeah
those those are included too 3M Adhesive uh don't forget to subscribe Planet Tech
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