Modding question

KadreMoD · 15 Sep 2006 at 10:57

Just wondering if anyone knows of a mod where someone has put some uv reactive acrylic behind the motherboard (the room behind the mb that the standoff's give.) I think it would look pretty good to have a glow coming from behind the motherboard, if you could place a cathode near enough of course.
I'm thinking of doing it on my akasa zen (have a side window in it.) , I was looking to do something unique and i think this might be it.

Also, does anyone know if UV Paint is any good? I was thinking of painting the inside of the front cover as its slightly translucent.

Messiah Khan · 15 Sep 2006 at 11:06

Couldn't you just mount a cold cathode behind the mobo tray and have the light shine out? Not quite what your after, but there is a cool LianLi v1000 mod over at bittech thats using loads of uv reactive acrylic.

KadreMoD · 15 Sep 2006 at 11:14

Dont think a cathode would fit behind it. A couple of UV LED's will though. Luckily the zen has some holes in the mb tray , so drilling a couple more out for LED's would be easy enough.

The only problem is that i have no idea what im doing with wiring/soldering. Will have to find a guide on the net, if i go ahead with the LED's

edit: ouch! Just had a look around and UV leds are like £3 each :eek:

samcat · 15 Sep 2006 at 11:21

£3 for 10 from ultra LEDS:

http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/default.php?cPath=25&sort=2a&filter_id=12

Good company too, ordered many times from them.

Dont forget the resistors for 12v, someheatshrink and a gluegun is very useful for holding them where you want them.

Cheers,
Sam C

KadreMoD · 15 Sep 2006 at 11:34

Cheers samcat

samcat · 15 Sep 2006 at 14:08

Soldering is easy. get some wire from halfords of somewhere and do some practicing... slide some heatshrink on first, to cover up the soldered section... Hard to put it on once everything is soldered.

Lots of good guides online, but if you get stuck post on here, plenty of people that can help out.

Sam C

Messiah Khan · 15 Sep 2006 at 14:44

While were talking about heatshrink. Remember to slide it on far enough so that it doesn't start to shrink with the heat of the soldering iron. I speak from experience.

samcat · 15 Sep 2006 at 16:04

messiah khan said:
While were talking about heatshrink. Remember to slide it on far enough so that it doesn't start to shrink with the heat of the soldering iron. I speak from experience.

Lol, done that a few times...

Sam C

KadreMoD · 15 Sep 2006 at 18:16

messiah khan said:
While were talking about heatshrink. Remember to slide it on far enough so that it doesn't start to shrink with the heat of the soldering iron. I speak from experience.

noted

orderoftheflame · 15 Sep 2006 at 20:21

have a read through this and see if it helps.

http://www.creativemods.com/content/view/78/39/1/0/

They've made a mousemat, but it's probably not a dis-simillar effect to what you're after.

Day03 · 15 Sep 2006 at 22:09

You can get the these neon strings which you can stick behind the mobo close to it's edge. I think that's the simplest way of doing this and cheap as well.

samcat · 15 Sep 2006 at 23:42

Day03 said:
You can get the these neon strings which you can stick behind the mobo close to it's edge. I think that's the simplest way of doing this and cheap as well.

Not very bright that stuff, used it before and was less than impressed.

UV acrylic cut to shape and some UV leds to make it glow would look VERY good imho.

Sam C