Bitfenix Alchemy LED Strip PC Lighting Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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907 words · ~4 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of the bit Phoenix Alchemy
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premium premium modding series lights so
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these are available in a variety of different configurations and we are
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going to be unboxing one of
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them no no it's okay I don't need that that's how long it takes to unbox them
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but we're going to focus Less on the unboxing in this video and more on the
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actual features of these products so there's a few different things one is
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that they use high-grade LEDs next is that they are
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chainable uh with the sorry the connect series is chainable which is cool they
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also use a high-graded adhesive which means they won't come off like so many
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lighting Products they just come off terrible and are available in multiple
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colors and lengths including 12 30 60 cm red blue green orange and white I asked
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about UV because personally I'm a UV kind of guy and they said that not yet
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but they're coming Okay so we've got
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this stuff so it comes with the adapter one thing that's great about Led strips
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versus cold cathodes is that they run directly off 12vt power here are the uh
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the daisy chain pieces that you'll need potentially so they give you everything
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you could need okay there you go um is that they
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run directly off 12vt power which means you don't need a bulky ugly inverter so
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it's much easier to light up your case with clean tidy wiring than it is with
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one of those cathode devicea jiggers so
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here we go we just plug this into this thing preferably oriented the correct
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way which it does seem to be okay it's just a little stiff
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12vt and then all we have to do is
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either there we
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are these are are non-gender specific so
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you can just plug them in either way it doesn't really matter and we just plug in like that so
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hold on I'm going to show you guys the various lengths give me a second because I actually grabbed one of the wrong
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boxes when I uh originally set up to do
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the video slick buy me some time
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here take different angles of it wait
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these are these all 30 cm I thought I saw a 20 cm one was there a 20 cm one
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hm the Russian claims I took the 20 cm
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one maybe the 20 cm one is the ah yes so
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the 20 cm one is kind of a neat one so this is their waterproof Edition so this
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can be used to light up a reservoir or do whatever else you want see they how
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they have caps built into the ends of them and then they have a waterproof uh
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coating over top of them so they will be completely impermeable to water so yes
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you can throw those inside water whatever kind of reservoir you have you
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want to like curl it around somewhere and you you know have the wire run out
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the top or do whatever you need to do there you go you know what we should do though is we should plug these in so you
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guys can see what the lighting effects look like let's see if I have a test
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bench plug in no I don't but I have this one let's see if we can find a four pin
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peripheral connector
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aha beautiful so here's I always recommend
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installing lighting such that you can't see the source of the light itself and
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only the light so that is what it will look like as a bit of a before and after
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just going to do this beauty love LED lighting it looks
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so much better than cathode lighting and uh here let's take
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the uh oh let's try the I think this
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one's a different color so that's what it looks like that's how much light it
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throws very
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impressive slick SI so pardon him
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guys uh huh I'm not quite sure I
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understand how this works wait yes I do
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you plug the thing into the thing aha so that's the waterproof one unfortunately
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this isn't the other color that I had hoped it was okay I'm coming back with
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another color wait I'll just do a speed unboxing over here while I find aha
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speed unboxing not recommended for you know
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new unboxers only experienced
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unboxers okay and then we need to get these
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things which go on to here speed
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lighting for your
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case speed plugging of the thing into
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the thing
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yeah yeah there we go oh that is an awesome red look at that guys gorgeous
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blood red not some of the pinky Hues that you get with some of the cathode
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lighting that looks fantastic there we go I'll let you guys
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be the judge of how it looks I'm I apologize for all the cables that are in
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front of it like this so you can't really get a good feel for what the lighting is actually like so it's more
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