Led strip.

savagesam117 · 1 Jul 2015 at 00:43

I've just got a NZXT H440 in White, and it's really nice. I noticed it had a little button on the back and it's for the led it never knew it had. It looks pretty cool but only really lights up the back of the case and outside of it so I would like an led strip that I can put it to light the rest up.

I've seen the betfinex ones but £30 for a bit of led!? No thank you!

You've got the Akasa for £8.99 anyone used them or know what they are like?

spoffle · 1 Jul 2015 at 00:55

Can you use a soldering iron?

savagesam117 · 1 Jul 2015 at 01:00

spoffle said:
Can you use a soldering iron?

I can indeed, I have a very nice Snap On soldering iron, well father does

savagesam117 · 1 Jul 2015 at 01:08

Awesome thank you. I think I have a spare molex connector somewhere too. I'll have a search!

I love your build!!

spoffle · 1 Jul 2015 at 01:11

Thanks

I had to shoehorn all of that in there, then I had the disaster of having to take the motherboard out and put a different one in, because it never worked right with my RAM. So it looks a little different now. The disaster isn't that anything went wrong, it was just the having to do it part. It was extremely tricky swapping motherboards without disassembling any of the watercooling stuff.

savagesam117 · 1 Jul 2015 at 01:13

Haha, oh really? What a pain!

I stripped my WC loop because it didn't look pretty, think I'm going to rebuild another one into this case as its got plenty of rad space and a nice cubby hole at the bottom for pumps and stuff! Won't be until at least the end of the year though, i want to be sli before I jump into it again.

spoffle · 1 Jul 2015 at 01:40

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I do, and I get blanked.

savagesam117 · 1 Jul 2015 at 01:43

Well that made me laugh to say the least, you go spoffle!

But I do agree, the top couples especially.

spoffle · 1 Jul 2015 at 01:48

Yep. I wonder what the chances of me getting blanked again are?

But yeah, LED strips. The only downside is that you're basically paying for 5m, but you've then got 4m+ left for other projects.

The controller boxes are easy and cheap to get too, so it's pretty easy to make 1x 5m strip in to loads of smaller ones.

I bought a load of 5M strips a while back, so I've got like 40m+ of LED strips to play with. I've got one stuck to the underside of my desk and it's set to a mid warm white, which I find looks great.

savagesam117 · 1 Jul 2015 at 01:53

Can you cut them down then?

Yeah I saw the boxes they are like £3.

I quite like that idea, would be nice of an evening when gaming as I don't like being in complete darkness, can't see anything!

spoffle · 1 Jul 2015 at 01:56

Yeah you can cut them down. They have a cut point every 3 LEDs with contact points for soldering new connection points on to them.

It's especially nice for evening lighting, it might even be worth making a set for the back of your monitors. Some rear monitor lighting can definitely reduce eye strain when looking at monitors with low lighting. It evens out the contrast of the monitors, and the lack of light a bit, rather than it being a hard transition between extremely bright light, and no light.

skaif · 1 Jul 2015 at 03:28

I've used these strips to great effect in my case!

spoffle · 1 Jul 2015 at 03:36

That's ultra bright Skaif! What ones do you have? The 5050 sets?

I've got loads of stuff planned to do with load of other strips I've got.

I've been thinking about running 2 strips around the back of a fixed projector screen that I intend to make soon.

So that it looks like this;

skaif · 1 Jul 2015 at 07:03

Yeah mine are 5050. Look really good to be fair, although a few of the smd's have started to die over the years!

savagesam117 · 1 Jul 2015 at 08:37

Ooo so many different colours!! Getting the right one will be fun!

spoffle · 1 Jul 2015 at 08:46

With the 44 key controllers, you can make your own colours by changing the individual RGB values as well as choosing from a colour palette.

Kidge · 1 Jul 2015 at 13:54

spoffle said:
That's ultra bright Skaif! What ones do you have? The 5050 sets?

I've got loads of stuff planned to do with load of other strips I've got.

I've been thinking about running 2 strips around the back of a fixed projector screen that I intend to make soon.

So that it looks like this;

Hey spoffle, do you know how the LED's are powered for this? looks really cool!

I wonder if you could get an adapter to plug them in to a USB port in the TV so they turn on when you power the TV on?

Sir SpankalotUK · 1 Jul 2015 at 14:27

I have often toyed with the idea of building an arduino project to control fans and ledstrips based off temperature probe readings inside the case. You can then adjust the cooling for your own needs.

ShivP · 1 Jul 2015 at 14:31

I did this one: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25723290&postcount=1

Project log of mine with some (albeit bad) pics

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18610798

spoffle · 1 Jul 2015 at 15:01

Kidge said:
Hey spoffle, do you know how the LED's are powered for this? looks really cool!

I wonder if you could get an adapter to plug them in to a USB port in the TV so they turn on when you power the TV on?

Most strips seem to need 12v to run so USB isn't going to be able to supply it alone, you'd need at least 3 USB connections and a resistor to bring the 15v down to 12v, so I think a 12v mains adapter is the better way to go.

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