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welcome to an unboxing and First Look of something that I'm very very excited

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about this is the phobia LED flex light

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now we've seen stuff like this before

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it's an LED light strip it plugs in Via Molex you can light your computer with

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it blah blah blah computer unique piece

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of art etc etc Etc integrated powerfully

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light Etc okay no no no no no this is

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very exciting so this is available in a variety of different color

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configurations and lengths so you can get them in 30 cm 60 cm 120 CM 240 CM so

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this is anywhere from pretty short to immensely long RGB warm white white blue

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green red UV yes unlike other competing products

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on the market these phobia LED light strips are available in UV these also

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appear to be of the waterproof variety although don't quote me on that but

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they're they come in casings that why am I holding it up to that camera I should

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be holding it up to the decent camera operated by someone who knows what they're doing um this is the uh so you

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can see there's a silicone seal around two cap pieces on either end so even the

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one with the wire coming into it seems to have some kind of a seal going on

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however you can see those wires are somewhat bare so I don't know that would

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necessarily take this and submerge it in coolant immediately

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although you know what why don't we just not test that that's not really what we

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do on this show getting ourselves sort of fried you know we weren't done with

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the close-up look though actually come back so this is an extremely high

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quality sleeving being used on here even though the wires inside are colored you

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can not see the color of the wires which

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is pretty darn impressive have you got a nice closeup of that diesel all right

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awesome and then plugs in Via a three pin adapter oh cool so you can power

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them off a fan cable this is something I haven't seen before that's outstanding

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so you can run these to every corner of your case without actually running wires

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and then it just includes an adapter that's a sleeve nice beautifully sleeved

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four pin Molex to other more different Molex so you can daisy chain them that

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will also power one of the LED strips so we're going to go ahead and plug this

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bad boy in to a system here so let's go ahead and click the thing and remember

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guys always power the system down before plugging in any accessories or

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peripherals because this can reduce the risk of shorting out components or

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anything else sort of generally bad happening remember guys do as I say not

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as I do all right there we have it so

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guys for those of you who think wow the cameras really don't pick up that light

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very well but trust me it's here I'm just going to put this down so that uh

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maybe the the half decent camera operator can have a look at it remember

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guys UV lights are not purple lights

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they are UV lights they're not intended to cast a particular color in your case

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but they are by Nature somewhat purple looking these are extremely bright and I

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am super stoked on getting these installed uh in my case I'm a bit of a

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UV nut now they look kind of pink in the

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uh in the video we're taking right now but don't mind that that's actually not

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how they look in person they do look more purple I'm about to cut across the

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camera so that I can turn off the lights so I can give you guys some idea how

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they're reacting with the yeah thanks lick with some of the UV reactive

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components we have here so this is one of those old DFI land party cables so

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I'm going to go ahead and show you guys what that looks like under the UV light

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so without the UV light you can see it doesn't look like a whole lot well that

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now it's completely dark good work guys there we go so UV light shows that the

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uh the yellow cable lights up like a beast uh this is sort of a pink ninja

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star thing that I uh I got as sort of a

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gag gift at one point so that's lighting up extremely nicely even at a distance

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so I'm holding it about 15 cm away this

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is in complete pitch Blackness from the UV components that I have here and it's

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still lighting them up quite well this is about 30 cm away so we're still

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getting a fair amount of light on them in fact I'd say diesel should probably

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if there's a way bump up the uh to to represent more like what it looks like

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in real life yeah that's probably more like what it's looking like in real life

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right now there we go so these are are some swifttech coils from back in the

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day when they made those so that's that's an extreme that's at 30 cm away

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guys and then finally over here we've got some primoflex uh LRT tubing so

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these this uh tubing isn't as glowy as sort of some tubing out there but if you

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get a little bit closer so this is at about 15 cm away you can see it's got a

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pretty strong UV effect there and last but not least on the motherboard behind

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me here I have one of Intel's uh blue

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SATA cables that they include with their U with their older badax boards I think

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that's where I got this thing and you can see that that's quite UV reactive as

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well so what's exciting about this guys

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is the fact that here let's switch to the other camera let's see how this goes

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oh and the lights are all dead now that really didn't work very well at all I

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was planning to point the UV light at myself in order to sort of have some

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light on myself that would look somewhat good um the exciting thing about this is

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like UV cathodes we are not limited to

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having to have stiff tubes so you can run them into the little nooks and

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crannies of your case also they're powered by 12vt so you don't have to

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deal with having inverters which are quite large to convert from DC to AC

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power all over your case in order to get UV lighting they're Slimmer profile

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which means again you can fit them into places that you can't do with cathodes

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and also they are much less likely to die over time every cathode I've ever

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bought and that's like at least 30 has

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either died or faded over time especially the UV ones because the UV

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light causes the glue to break down at the ends and so the the square pieces at

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the ends actually just start coming off after you've had them running for about

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a year so it's just not a very good user experience I am hoping that these led

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versions will be significantly better and when I redo my personal build which

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is coming soon I am definitely going to be using these instead of cathodes based

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on the experience I've had with them here don't forget to subscribe to lus

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