welcome to an unboxing and First Look of something that I'm very very excited
about this is the phobia LED flex light
now we've seen stuff like this before
it's an LED light strip it plugs in Via Molex you can light your computer with
it blah blah blah computer unique piece
of art etc etc Etc integrated powerfully
light Etc okay no no no no no this is
very exciting so this is available in a variety of different color
configurations and lengths so you can get them in 30 cm 60 cm 120 CM 240 CM so
this is anywhere from pretty short to immensely long RGB warm white white blue
green red UV yes unlike other competing products
on the market these phobia LED light strips are available in UV these also
appear to be of the waterproof variety although don't quote me on that but
they're they come in casings that why am I holding it up to that camera I should
be holding it up to the decent camera operated by someone who knows what they're doing um this is the uh so you
can see there's a silicone seal around two cap pieces on either end so even the
one with the wire coming into it seems to have some kind of a seal going on
however you can see those wires are somewhat bare so I don't know that would
necessarily take this and submerge it in coolant immediately
although you know what why don't we just not test that that's not really what we
do on this show getting ourselves sort of fried you know we weren't done with
the close-up look though actually come back so this is an extremely high
quality sleeving being used on here even though the wires inside are colored you
can not see the color of the wires which
is pretty darn impressive have you got a nice closeup of that diesel all right
awesome and then plugs in Via a three pin adapter oh cool so you can power
them off a fan cable this is something I haven't seen before that's outstanding
so you can run these to every corner of your case without actually running wires
and then it just includes an adapter that's a sleeve nice beautifully sleeved
four pin Molex to other more different Molex so you can daisy chain them that
will also power one of the LED strips so we're going to go ahead and plug this
bad boy in to a system here so let's go ahead and click the thing and remember
guys always power the system down before plugging in any accessories or
peripherals because this can reduce the risk of shorting out components or
anything else sort of generally bad happening remember guys do as I say not
as I do all right there we have it so
guys for those of you who think wow the cameras really don't pick up that light
very well but trust me it's here I'm just going to put this down so that uh
maybe the the half decent camera operator can have a look at it remember
guys UV lights are not purple lights
they are UV lights they're not intended to cast a particular color in your case
but they are by Nature somewhat purple looking these are extremely bright and I
am super stoked on getting these installed uh in my case I'm a bit of a
UV nut now they look kind of pink in the
uh in the video we're taking right now but don't mind that that's actually not
how they look in person they do look more purple I'm about to cut across the
camera so that I can turn off the lights so I can give you guys some idea how
they're reacting with the yeah thanks lick with some of the UV reactive
components we have here so this is one of those old DFI land party cables so
I'm going to go ahead and show you guys what that looks like under the UV light
so without the UV light you can see it doesn't look like a whole lot well that
now it's completely dark good work guys there we go so UV light shows that the
uh the yellow cable lights up like a beast uh this is sort of a pink ninja
star thing that I uh I got as sort of a
gag gift at one point so that's lighting up extremely nicely even at a distance
so I'm holding it about 15 cm away this
is in complete pitch Blackness from the UV components that I have here and it's
still lighting them up quite well this is about 30 cm away so we're still
getting a fair amount of light on them in fact I'd say diesel should probably
if there's a way bump up the uh to to represent more like what it looks like
in real life yeah that's probably more like what it's looking like in real life
right now there we go so these are are some swifttech coils from back in the
day when they made those so that's that's an extreme that's at 30 cm away
guys and then finally over here we've got some primoflex uh LRT tubing so
these this uh tubing isn't as glowy as sort of some tubing out there but if you
get a little bit closer so this is at about 15 cm away you can see it's got a
pretty strong UV effect there and last but not least on the motherboard behind
me here I have one of Intel's uh blue
SATA cables that they include with their U with their older badax boards I think
that's where I got this thing and you can see that that's quite UV reactive as
well so what's exciting about this guys
is the fact that here let's switch to the other camera let's see how this goes
oh and the lights are all dead now that really didn't work very well at all I
was planning to point the UV light at myself in order to sort of have some
light on myself that would look somewhat good um the exciting thing about this is
like UV cathodes we are not limited to
having to have stiff tubes so you can run them into the little nooks and
crannies of your case also they're powered by 12vt so you don't have to
deal with having inverters which are quite large to convert from DC to AC
power all over your case in order to get UV lighting they're Slimmer profile
which means again you can fit them into places that you can't do with cathodes
and also they are much less likely to die over time every cathode I've ever
bought and that's like at least 30 has
either died or faded over time especially the UV ones because the UV
light causes the glue to break down at the ends and so the the square pieces at
the ends actually just start coming off after you've had them running for about
a year so it's just not a very good user experience I am hoping that these led
versions will be significantly better and when I redo my personal build which
is coming soon I am definitely going to be using these instead of cathodes based
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