Antec Advance Accent Lighting USB Powered LED Strips Unboxing First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to an unboxing where I have two variants of pretty much the same thing I
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also still have my microphone on but that's from shooting NC Tech tips over
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there the microphone is on the camera
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um not really related to anything this is anex accent lighting USB powered 6
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LED strip thing so you can see they got a couple examples for how they might
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expect you to use it and a couple more examples I'm going to read the back
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because that is apparently what I do on this show show off your PC in a new
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light with the antec Advan accent lighting USB powered 6 LED strip easy to
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install and turn on simply attach the LED strip on the electronic device you
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desire insert the USB plug into an open
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USB port or powered USB hub and then turn it on with its convenient onoff
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switch imagine turning on on your computer and suddenly a glow emanates
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from within your case or having your entire your entire desk illuminate the
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moment your keyboard activates if you think your component's desk or even
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monitor need a healthy glow pick up the antech advanced Lighting Red USB powered
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6 LED strip today now I sort of
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exaggerated I made fun of that a little bit and rightfully so however it is
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pretty cool so let's check this out we've got the red version as well as the
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blue version here today and I'm going to show you guys a couple of examples of
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what we can do with a product like this that will look pretty sweet so one thing
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to note is that you don't actually have to use the strip in its entire length
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there are cutting marks on here so you can see there you can cut it off at
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either two four or the entire six depending on how you want to place it
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although you'll have to rejigger the uh
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the connectors if you want to do if you want to cut them you'll have to resolder
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on power connectors as you can see here
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not there somewhere else you'll have to figure it out on your own because I'm not doing that guide uh let's plug one
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of these in and let's see how it goes here so I'm going to leave the switch
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powered off so there's the convenient onoff switch just so that we have the
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drama of turning it on all at once so
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you can plug it into a USB port on your motherboard you know what actually this
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is a terrible example let me just think if there's somewhere else that I can you
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know what give me a sec here guys so let's start with keyboard lighting
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effects here we've got a Corsair k90 and we're going to go ahead and add some
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underlow how beastly does that look yeah
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pretty pretty good pretty good so remember guys you can plug it into the
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USB port on a keyboard or other peripheral actually here let's go ahead
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and try it on a
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monitor oh hold on it probably has to be powered
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on
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yeah yeah so here check this out check this out come over from the other side
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so you can set it up on like the bottom of your monitor and illuminate your desk
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under the monitor I apologize for us not really having like a proper place like a
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proper system or anything to set this up on that actually looks that's about what it looks like that looks really good
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okay now let's go ahead and remember that will only power on when your
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monitor is actually receiving an input signal which is pretty neat you can even
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use it to pimp your test bench so you can plug it anywhere where there's USB
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power which is makes things very flexible so you could throw it onto one
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of your USBS here and then you could
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stick it to the bottom of your test bench and it would like illuminate all
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of your testing equipment which would make you feel pretty cool there we go
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let's just fix that up there you go so now my power supply and my SSD and
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my pink uh anti-slip mat that I put on
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top of my optical drive can all bask in
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the red glow of the antech accent strip
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these are actually really cool it's just I mean these led strips have existed
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already it's not like this is anything new but all an's done is put just a nice
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clean black cable an onoff switch and uh
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once again clean heat shrink cabling here then some adhesive on it and you
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can use it to Accent pretty much whatever you want it's a nice long cable so the whole thing is almost 6 ft long
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see like that thank you for checking out my unboxing of the antech advance accent
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lighting available in at least red and blue and I'm not sure if there are other
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colors as well don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for unboxings reviews and
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other computer videos now remember guys I said anything
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with USB power so if you happen to have one of these handy little
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dads all you got to do is put them in your pocket and you are ready to LED
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accessorize yourself for your
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upcoming you know I don't know party where they wear like hats like this
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that was it we're
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done I hit
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myself