UV question

yoda

yoda

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greetings...
I have water cooling kit.... and I have green UV 'liquid' in the pipes (I think it's UV...)
the problem is, I have three red 12" cold cathode tubes which dont mage the green tubes stand out (duh, yes I know... I like RED, looks like it very HOT inside my PC...)

So, need illumination to make green pipes stand out but without loosing my 'red glow'

Looking on Ebay I found a black light UV cold cathode kit and was wondering is anyone ever used these...

Also, was wondering what effect a blue LED shining into my RES would have on the green liquid... will it glow????

I got pix, but no where to host them at the mo... will work on it this afternoon...

Thanks
 
The only way to make your tubes 'glow' green is to have some form of UV lighting in there. The problem you are going to have is that the red cold cathodes you already have will 'water down' the UV effect - as will any colour light you have.

UV cathode kits are cheap (2 x 12" = £5) and they should make the green stand out more - how much will depend on there positioning and the positioning of the red cathodes.
 
The EL string is horrid imo. To make matters worse it will look terrible in your case imo. Stick to all red, all green or all blue. Combining all three looks awfull, combinations of two can look good if done correctly.
 
I replaced the green uv die with some stronger green uv dye...

and now, the pipes show up clearly green....
Also, I got hole of some blue UV LEDs and dissasembled the case and then superglued them to the back of the bay res so that the bay res glows green at the front... also, when the bay res is low, the 'water' still glows green but the top shows purple... nice effect IMO....

trying to sort out a host to throw some pix on... I think you'll like what I've done...
 
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