My afternoon mod!

Logic Zero · 7 Apr 2007 at 21:32

Ok so it's not a case mod, but it uses case components, in this case, a cold cathode light set by akasa. I've been wanting to add a nice glowy light to the back of my monitor ever since i got an LCD, and last week I finally got around to thinking up a design. Here are the pics!

Here i filed a circular opening in a spare PCI plate to let a power cable poke out the back

Made a bracket assembly for the cathode, transformer and wires that will velcro to the monitor

Just a quick mock up

Extended, braided and removed passthrough molex on the power cable

Logic Zero · 7 Apr 2007 at 21:33

Attached and coupling the DVI and power cables together

Up and running!

malfunkshun · 7 Apr 2007 at 21:35

I was reading this and I just didnt get it. But the final piccy is the win, nice work matey. Makes that philips effect look lame

Dudd · 7 Apr 2007 at 21:35

looks cool.... i wish my desk was that tidy

electric ant · 7 Apr 2007 at 21:40

Seems pretty self explanatory, he cut a hole in case so that power lead for cathode could be poked out and then mounted the cold cathode on the back of monitor. Looks nice!

(ps for something a little more involved check this monitor mod out!
http://metku.net/index.html?path=mods/transtft/index_eng4 )

bryanlaycock · 7 Apr 2007 at 21:53

wow looks impressive, how did u make your little bracket?

Logic Zero · 7 Apr 2007 at 21:58

A bit of spare perspex, a dremel to cut out the design and hole for the switch, heatgun to bend the corner for the switch, a servo arm and some self tappers to hold all the wires together

Azza · 7 Apr 2007 at 22:00

That look cool. :cool:

Sorry if I steal your idea but that looks pretty sweet. I like Logic Zero.

Logic Zero · 7 Apr 2007 at 22:19

Hey no probs steal it all you want, i dont mind

chaparral · 7 Apr 2007 at 22:35

Looks very Nice....

I was thinking of doing this with my plasma a few month ago.(But i just never got around to doing it)

Can you buy cathodes which can change colour by a switch or something ???

jongeeone · 7 Apr 2007 at 22:47

Im thinking of doing the same idea with blue cathodes but i wasnt to sure if the wires would be to short - how did youe extend them?

matt100 · 7 Apr 2007 at 22:56

jongeeone said:
Im thinking of doing the same idea with blue cathodes but i wasnt to sure if the wires would be to short - how did youe extend them?

I'd like to see that too.

I could see my 2407 with a white cathode out the back.

Logic Zero · 7 Apr 2007 at 22:57

Yeh the wires are definately too short, i just found some old cable in the back shed, opened it up to get the 2 wires inside it. I cut the two wires from the molex on the cathodes and soldered the extra wires from the cable between them to extend it all. Then i just braided it to make it look fancy

IceShock · 7 Apr 2007 at 23:33

may i ask how come you used green when you have blue everything else? hehe

great mod good job.

id not like to do that my self tho personally as its coming summer...
it will attract more bugs to the monitor and more risk of monitor death

jongeeone · 7 Apr 2007 at 23:35

Logic Zero said:
Yeh the wires are definately too short, i just found some old cable in the back shed, opened it up to get the 2 wires inside it. I cut the two wires from the molex on the cathodes and soldered the extra wires from the cable between them to extend it all. Then i just braided it to make it look fancy

All sounds abit complicated

Edit

After looking again i see what you mean

toxic · 7 Apr 2007 at 23:42

so youi extended the wires of the light...or the wires from you PSU. I allready tried this with a cathode tube...and I extended the wires on the cathode by just over a meter. When I plugged it in, there was hardly any light from the cathode...i thought that the extended length of wire was resisting the voltage to the cathode and it just wasnt getting enough power. Let me know...Im gona try again. When I think about it...i probably used the wrong type of wire anyway...it was all i had at the time.

bryanlaycock · 8 Apr 2007 at 00:54

i think il have a go at this once ive finished my case.

PinkFloyd · 8 Apr 2007 at 01:28

toxic said:
so youi extended the wires of the light...or the wires from you PSU. I allready tried this with a cathode tube...and I extended the wires on the cathode by just over a meter.

Don't extend the wires from the voltage converter (the black box

) to the cathode. Extend the wires from the psu to the voltage convert.

Logic Zero · 8 Apr 2007 at 07:31

toxic said:
so youi extended the wires of the light...or the wires from you PSU. I allready tried this with a cathode tube...and I extended the wires on the cathode by just over a meter. When I plugged it in, there was hardly any light from the cathode...i thought that the extended length of wire was resisting the voltage to the cathode and it just wasnt getting enough power. Let me know...Im gona try again. When I think about it...i probably used the wrong type of wire anyway...it was all i had at the time.

Here you go

Logic Zero · 8 Apr 2007 at 07:32

IceShock said:
may i ask how come you used green when you have blue everything else? hehe

great mod good job.

id not like to do that my self tho personally as its coming summer...
it will attract more bugs to the monitor and more risk of monitor death

lol i've already thought of that, the tights and tape are coming out on monday