Neon Tube Lighting

OneTime · 24 Jan 2009 at 02:07

Looking to create a bit of a lighting effect. Would like to use neon tube lighting to give my desk a nice blue glow. Like the below picture.
Only trouble is I can't find anywhere to buy them. Seen some online but they are meant for the car and have a cigarette lighter plug, is is possible to rewire to a normal 3 prong plug like we use in our wall sockets?
Will the akasa lights in the case mod section work? (on OcUK)
Anyone tried using neon lighting like this before?

Trying to avoid the use of 10 metres of neon tube lighting.

Thanks

Phatjayunoi · 24 Jan 2009 at 08:01

If you want to use lighting cathodes that are mostly suitable for PC case modding, one way you can go about this is to use a small PSU, like a 150-200W or something, to light them up. Very easy to do when you can easily short the PSU to make it power on i.e. the green wire to black on the motherboard power connection. Only problem is of course, all the wiring/cables, the length and deciding where and how you want everythign to look..

OneTime · 24 Jan 2009 at 15:19

I found a specialty site that does them for tv's, monitors and just normal cabinet lighting. 12" cathodes with a power supply that plugs directly into a wall socket. Looking good

PhillyDee · 24 Jan 2009 at 15:23

Phatjayunoi said:
If you want to use lighting cathodes that are mostly suitable for PC case modding, one way you can go about this is to use a small PSU, like a 150-200W or something, to light them up. Very easy to do when you can easily short the PSU to make it power on i.e. the green wire to black on the motherboard power connection. Only problem is of course, all the wiring/cables, the length and deciding where and how you want everythign to look..

Overkill tbh . . .

Just buy PC cathodes that run from 12v. Then rewire the connection to a standard 2.1mm DC power socket. Then its easy enough to buy a multi-power adapter for a fiver and run it off that. Apparently they are only 20mA each.