Hp Res 3 Mega

[[DGN]Nexus]

That's really sweet acrylic work... I wish I was as good.

[Defyant]

Thanx guys

to compliment the front and side, i decided to make a bit of a feature of the floor as well




The original idea for the pump power was to run a bent frosted plex wire cover to the rear of the case.

I recently had an idea for "channeled " look ..... so this was a good time to try it out




The idea is that the power wires for the pump will still be fed thru a frosted plex tubing ...but a channel is cut in the PLEX FLOOR
to allow the tube to sit lower down , more flush and give a cleaner stealthier type look.


a large hole was drilled in the metal floor @ a diagonal angle to the pump, the hole is cut larger so it would also fit the "Motherboard" light wires that will also be fed thru @ a later time .

Some "pre-bent" frosted plex tube is layed in for a check.

the tube sits down i the channel.

The plex floor is placed back into the case and the pump and its new wire cover are put into place.

Testing with some blue light..the tube catches the light well...i may try some individual lighting effects for it tho!

Once the motherboard cover is back in you wont see much of this little mod.. but it's to know its in and done proper

[Rankenphile]

Cripes, man! You're making us look like fools! Nobody should have this much talent, it's just not natural!

[Defyant]

Thanx Rankenphile


Motherboard lights Take 2!


The first attempt i had @ this solution was bulky and awkward looking.


as seen below.... these black leads were never goint to suit this mod....

In an attempt to streemline and make the detachable dual lights more eye pleasing i came up with this.

the method of making the Dual lights was the same as before but this time ive shortened the shank of the silde on light to help streamline,

also added "white" wires to help keep a cleaner more "intheme" look.





The cover with the slot type groove that slides over the edge of the motherboard cover.

The legs are bent closer to the LED this time.

White wire which is then covered in Clear heatshrink is soldered on

The step down resistor is then soldered to the end...this takes the "bulk" out of the loom.

A qick check of the plex cover shows that it can be shortened soome more!

after some more filing and a qik "frosting" the cover is ready and slipped over the LED's...a dob of HOT glue us used to hlod it in place.

Some Clear heatshrink is slipped over and shrunk down to complete the look and the whole loom is also covered with clear heatshrink.

I'm much happier with this look

[Malatory]

I like the new ones better as well, and agree they are less of an eye distraction.

[n0body]

dude this is frekin awesome, one question? isnt all that lighting going to take up loads of precious molex connectors or did i miss something?

[Rankenphile]

Nice.

[Defyant]

@nobody naaa all the led's are hardwired..or will be

just nutting few a few way to do things atm... i have put a few hours into this since last update..but these are just different lighting tekniques and nothing pic worthy as yet

keep an eye out for "STORM'D"!

[Pimptimus_Prime]

This mod is amazing.

[Guttenaffe]

Looks cool

Ever think of building/hooking up some sort of lighting control circuits?

You could get some weird & cool effects going.

Something like the LM3916 could make cool effects

Yu even go a cheaper rough by uses some 555's (556 for duel package) to control the skew rate from a 555 running as an oscillator.