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Which Cathodes do all of Yall use? I'm Just wondering so that i can get the Brightest and best quality.

Thanks ^_^

Hate 'em. Don't want them any more. Don't want to see another one actually. Too cliche/been done/whored. I have a blue one if you want it.

And look around this folder for the article about them blowing up.

While I agree with Chumly, I will give you a bump up. and see if anyone has an answer for ya

The future is all LEDs

Manta

Opps, sorry! That was REAL crummy of me to post that. I'm quiting smoking, and it just aint cutting it lately. I'm a real bitch, so watch out

I just ordered mine from frozenCPU. They have some really bright ones, and are built really well.

The offer for a blue one still stands though. This one is from googlegear I belive and is sound activated and has a sensitivity adjuster and a switch. It's not the better FrozenCPU ones, but I gave those away already and want to get them all out of my house.

Dang Chumly, relax, why all this hostility towards our little CCFL friends? Did one of them beat you up for your lunch money or something? They can be handy in many cases. For one, UV lighting. You're not going to find that in LED's. And a lot of very cool mods are done with UV.

Now as for which ones are best, really it's a crap shoot. They're all basically the same, very little real differences. Just be careful when you buy them online because I've had at least a dozen or so that came in busted. If you're buying 'em in a store, don't be afraid to open the package and check them out if you can't see the whole tube from the outside of the packaging. Nothing more frustrating than fining out just as you're about to install a light that it was cracked right behind the little paper logo in the package. And trust me, they DO package them that way on purpose, they'll try to push defective ones off on people this way, espically at places like CompUSA, BestBuy, Circuit City and so forth. I always open things like that before I pay for them. I've been stopped by clerks for it but in almost every case I'd found one or two busted ones and showed them to the guy and explained that I'm not dumb enough to pay for their re-stocked broken parts. If they continue to give me a hard time I talk to the manager and if he isn't cool with it, I take my business elsewhere. You've got a right to not be ripped off.

there are UV LEDs ...

Yeah, hehehe, right, and there are also UV screw-in light bulbs supposedly, ever use one? A UV LED is nothing more than a purple bulb, it's not going to react, trust me. If it does then it isn't an LED, can't be. Different kind of creature entirely.

the 1s ive seen in some case fans cause stuff to react.

I have 4 fans with UV LEDs in them so they do have them and they work amazingly!! And to clarify this UV is a form of radiant energy in the from of light and its produced by electrons moving from one orbital to another and as a byproduct giving off photons or light. A CCFL uses a filter coating around the tube to block all but UV-A light or long wave UV the LED is doing the same basic thing with its coating its just not using the inert gas to excite the electrons, its using semiconductor material.

I have never seen that particular principal work however. I have a whole drawer full of various "supposedly" UV LEDs and so far I haven't been able to get them to cause any UV reactive parts to react worth a damn. They're from multiple sources, I wanted to do something that didn't involve using CCFL's with a UV clear case but, no luck. So where do you get these UV LEDs that actually work? I'd love to get my hands on some. And does the place you get them sell the resistors as well or are they in kit form or what?

Thanks,
T.I.M.

the fans that i have are from powmax which i got through neewegg. They are 8cm fans. let me check on one thing before i say i am 100 percent sure. i'll pm you T.I.M.

Thanks, what I'm looking for though would be just the LEDs themselves if you can find out who makes them. I want to put them directly into the UV reactive plastic.

Keywords being "A Lot". Who DOESN'T have a CCT? I just want to push MPC's members to try something original besides joining the majority of the modding community in their work. Like putting a Tux on a Penguin...hard to pick 'em out of the crowd.

I would have to agree with you on that one chumly. the only reason i got what i have is for the color scheme i was going for. to be honest after seeing more creative things i have been thinking of tryin a more serious mod.

Just because a lot of people do something doesn't mean it can't be done differently and with originality by someone else. Think of it this way, a lot of people paint with oil paints. So why in the heck did that DiVinci guy bother to do it too? Why didn't he do it with ketchup to be different? The medium is just a means for expression, how you use it can be very different from the other guys and be totally original.