Logisys Dual 12" Cold Cathodes for PC Lighting Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of a popular PC modding item and that is
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a dual 12-in cold cathode kit so basically what this is it's a way of
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lighting up your PC the particular one I have here today is a UV cold cathode kit
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so you can get it in a variety of colors including blue red green purple yellow
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white and UV now the difference between purple and UV is purple is actually
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intended to throw purple light into your case so your whole PC will glow out
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purple whereas a US V cathode kit is
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more designed to allow UV reactive things inside your case to Glow whatever
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color they happen to be so I mean if you
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look directly at a UV cathode it will look purple but the main purpose of it
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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
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color other than this one so why don't I explain everything that comes with it
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first of all you've got five pieces of velcro four small ones and one big one
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the four small ones are for using at either end of the cathodes and then
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mounting them to something in your case so you stick them on really the the
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velcro that's included isn't great quality I'd recommend picking up some double-sided tape or some industrial
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velcro from your hardware store if you really want them to stay put however the
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big ones usually okay and you use that to mount the inverter now what an
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inverter is is it's a device for taking the 12vt power from your power supply
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and converting that into something that these cathodes can use because these run
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on AC power which is is more like the power that you'd find in your walls so
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basically you're taking your power your computer power supply you're turning AC
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into DC then you're taking that DC power putting it into here and putting it back
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into AC it seems very roundabout but it's the best way to run cathodes in
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your PC so these are the cathodes themselves they're 12 in long or 30 cm
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long they come with little white wires attached to them I've experimented with
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uh ways of making these look nicer you can sleeve them quite easily so that's a
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really easy way to make them look better but you can't really lengthen them very much because what tends to happen is the
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one that you try to splice more wire into will be more dim so it's um very
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strange it shouldn't shouldn't be that way but it is anyway I have another kit
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on hand that I've already got set up here and I'm just going to show you what
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it looks like so that is a UV kit you can see it doesn't throw off a whole lot
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of light compared to the other ones but you do have the advantage as I showed in
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my modmart SATA cable unboxing of making
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other stuff glow so that effect is very
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cool thank you for checking out my unboxing of the logus 12in cold cathodes