How to bling my case

[tinners]

As a noob to anything like case lighting etc am after a bit of advice.

Have a Lian-Li v1000 case and just bought some UV cables and a cold cathode kit as I fancied a bit of bling in my case and I was upgrading some other bits and pieces.

Where's the best place to mount the tubes to get max effect ? How many tubes will I need. The kit comes with 4 (30cm tubes) but think this is overkill really for my case.
http://www.sharkoon.com/enghtml/i_ccfl.htm#ccfl

What do people do about leaving them on. Do they stay on all the time or just when the PC is on ? I see they come with a power switch. Do I need this to be accessible then ?

Also I have seen some cool modded cases with LEDs on the mobos. Are these hard to do ?

 

[tinners]

UV cables and cold cathodes wont work

For true UV you need "Black" lighting/cathodes.

Mark

Maybe being a bit thick but please can you explain a bit more.

 

[tinners]

Black light (also Wood's light) is the common name for a lamp emitting electromagnetic radiation that is almost exclusively in the soft near ultraviolet range, and very little visible light. In the United Kingdom this type of lighting is more commonly referred to as simply "UV light".

Im still struggling - why if "In the United Kingdom this type of lighting is more commonly referred to as simply "UV light"" would the UV lights not work to light up internal UV components ?

 

[tinners]

k?

What he was saying, is that not all colours light up UV cables, you actually need to get UV cathodes.

ah, i see. my post was less than clear. I bought a UV cold cathode kit so should be OK.