Ice Modz Lighting Strips Unboxing & Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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curse for more details welcome to an unboxing of something that's actually a
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little bit tricky to find because you can't just go to the Local Best Buy and
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buy ice mods lighting Products but uh
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Mundy from Ice mods reached out and sent
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over a couple of his okay it's ice mods with a z a couple of his ice mods lights
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so one of them is UV and the other one is a clear one he's also got some other
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cool new stuff coming so he's adding black pcbs he's adding um sort of
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multicolored ones which are going to be pretty cool as well so basically really
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small company you can order from them directly based in Iceland or something I
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believe so we're going to go ahead and check out what he's sent over for us to
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take a look at now one of the other things that ice mods does is cable sleeving so I'm expecting the sleeving
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on these to be absolutely exceptional and it looks like my expectations are
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pretty much 100% dead on that is some of
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the schiestle I've ever seen on a product
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that comes out of the box you can't see through it at all it is an extremely
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tight weave and it's multicolored so there's actually a gray strip a black
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strip a gray strip a black strip uh he's also done a really good job I can see
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here of of covering up the way that the
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cable itself is attached to the LED strip now ice mods isn't the only
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company in the world to do LED strips but I can tell you right now based on my
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experience with the uh the phobia ones
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which are not attached very securely like you could probably go like this and
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if you did that maybe four five six times uh you could probably break them
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off pretty consistently whereas these strips have much larger contact pads for
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soldering so uh so yeah that's a good thing also the way that he's achieved
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his waterproofness is uh by adding there we
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go a silicone looks like sleeve over top personally I find I prefer to take those
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off since I'm not usually going to be immersing the LED strips in water but uh
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you can see how that's sealed around the edges and then this is sealed around the
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edges as well so white PCB for now so I want to go ahead and show you guys the
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rig that thanks Rumble uh the rig that I'm going to be installing these in so
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I'm going to do the UV one on top up
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here so that I get some nice UV glow from the tubing you can see these are
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quite long strips I believe these are 45
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cm 30 I mean whatever they're they're pretty long so you can see how long they
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are they're about sort of a Linus uh elbow to to fingertip in terms of the
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actual length so let's go ahead and light them up uh okay this rig needs a
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power adapter yes I'll do something with the cable
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management later but uh okay we got a little he included one adapter for me
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I'm assuming if you actually buy them you get an adapter with each one so
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let's go ahead and plug this bad boy in
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and it doesn't work no I'm just kidding computer's not on that's always the
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first thing you want to check very nice extremely bright UV effect so you can
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see even in the daylight of this room just installing the strip in the top uh
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what I'll probably have to do is get it so it doesn't go right over the radiator
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gives us a strong UV glow from all of that blue tubing in there that looks
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really nice actually so even from a distance of about here you can see UV
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not UV UV not UV I would definitely
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recommend getting some distance between the UV strip and the items that you that
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you are want to flues and then the other thing is as well you don't want to
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position this such that you're going to see it through the actual case cuz
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they're pretty much like painful to look at they're extremely bright um as is
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true of of many of these UV strips that are available out there so the other one
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we have here is nice long uh nice long sleeved cables on these as well that was
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one of the other issues I had with the other ones that I had used in my own rig
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they had very very short cables on them so those are wow yeah you're not even
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going to be able to look at these but I think uh okay well here so without them
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and then like with them so go ahead and
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put that down here where I would probably position it you can actually cut them to length which is sort of neat
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I'll show you that on this one so uh there should be scissor marks on here
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somewhere oh hold on I don't know if this one yep okay so at all of these
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spots it looks like you can cut them off
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so you can cut them to whatever length you want and that is true of the white
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one as well although it's marked in a slightly different way so there's an actual scissor line on there so you you
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can cut that off so I won't be able to use probably the full length so I'll go
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along the bottom with the white and then I want some UV in the top so I'm going
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to have to cut probably one or two segments off of this guy let's go ahead
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and plug that back in so we can see what the case lighting will look like LED
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strips are so much more practical than cathodes for a couple of reasons so
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number one is that they are much lower profile number two is you don't have to
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have a large bulky inverter to to convert from 12vt DC to 20 volt AC and
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actually I don't even know if it's 120 volt AC but it's AC for sure I have no
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idea what voltage it's running at but um I think that's pretty much it thanks for
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checking out this unboxing oh I he includes adhesive strips but they might
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have fallen out of the envelope when I was fussing around with them so yeah
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those those are included too 3M Adhesive uh don't forget to subscribe Planet Tech
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