suggestions for a mod I have seen

sheriff mozzer

sheriff mozzer

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Hi all

I have seen a particularly cool looking mod and I wondered if any one could help me suss it out, unfortunately the idea is stolen off a suppliers web site so I am unable to supply piccys of what it looks like.

To be honest it probably is the wrong place to post this but here goes, I have modded my case with blue cathode tubes which look great but I would like to use the same idea to mod the rear of my monitor and the shelves of my desk. I could buy the kit to do this from the supplier I mentioned earlier with 4 tubes but I feel this could be done at a lot less cost than the £56 they are wanting to supply it.:eek:

The kit consists of a mains fed Power supply, a "Y" shaped wire splitter to feed both kits and the normal 12" x 2 blue cold cathode tubes as sold by overclockers (2 lots of 2 4 in total )with an inverter and a modified flat style on off switch, I know this would be easier if I stole the supply from the molex plugs from inside my case but I was hoping to do a proper job and use mains electricity to feed it.

any ideas:confused:
 
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OK I searched the net and found this to give you the idea.

I reckon on £20 for the two sets of tubes, maybe a tenner for the power supply and a fiver for the connecters...maybe a little more.

Admin....If this is not allowed please remove for me
 
You need a mains to 12v DC adapter, then wire a molex to the 12v live and ground cable from the adapter. Plug in the cathodes and it should work.

As far as I can tell they don't use much power so a 500mA model should be enough.
 
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That is exactly what I want to do and the other linked thread helps a lot thank you all that have replied....but.....

I had already thought out how to do this using power from my PC molex plugs but I wanted to convert the idea to use mains power via some type of power supply to save my PC power resources, the problem is I do not know how to get the power from the supply to feed two lots of tubes, I was going to position 1 each side of my monitor vertically using one set of tubes, then position one at the rear of my keyboard slide type draw to illuminate the keyboard and one lower down to illuminate my shelf using the second set, I need to find a way of spliting one power supply to feed both sets and I need to know which power supply I would need to replicate the computer power feed, I would like to know how to link both sets to a two switch set up so they could work independantly.

I have got to admit I had missed the other thread but it does look mighty fine


Thamks for the input men, hope you can help further, I know you are not allowed to link to competitors web sites so as much info as you can would help me locate what I need.:confused:
 
Two ideas for the power supply off the top of my head would be either an external hard drive mains power adapter or a pico power supply used for very small systems. Both would require a bit of creative re-wiring but shouldnt be too much of a challenge.

PK!
 
a few cathodes isnt really going to drain your psu ... they use less then a hard drive does power wise. other than that i dont think theres much you can do unless you find a psu somewhere and want to jump start everytime you want your lights on-which i wouldnt really recommend.
 
I've been interested in doing this with my TV for some time, but I'm unable to run the cable to my PC.

Is there a converter to run the cathodes from the mains? or maybe even USB from the Xbox/PS3/Wii?
 
orderoftheflame said:
I've been interested in doing this with my TV for some time, but I'm unable to run the cable to my PC.

Is there a converter to run the cathodes from the mains? or maybe even USB from the Xbox/PS3/Wii?
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my thoughts exactly, i want to do same with usb so i can light up my keyboard as and when i need it.
 
Raikiri said:
You need a mains to 12v DC adapter, then wire a molex to the 12v live and ground cable from the adapter. Plug in the cathodes and it should work.

As far as I can tell they don't use much power to a 500mA model should be enough.
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this is the way to go, i do this already as i have led's in my speakers and i run them off a little multi voltage dc adapter.

something like this

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"this is the way to go, i do this already as i have led's in my speakers and i run them off a little multi voltage dc adapter".

Any special specs to look for or will any 12v adapter work
 
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