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    Default Re: Project: Water Cooling Turbine

    What about this??

    I drew this idea in Illustrator CS2.



    The idea is to have the outside plates catch the "spot light". The reflection should create a nice glow.
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    Default Re: Project: Water Cooling Turbine

    Quote Originally Posted by SgtM View Post
    Frost/sand the tops of the LED's. It will diffuse the light, and will be more uniform.
    ya, thats what i would do/was going to suggest. looks great aside from that though. i like the way you wired them all up.


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    this is strickly advice, not complaining. if you don't like something about your other post, eg the picture not working there is a edit button on the bottem right side so you can just edit rather then posting so much.

    the link doesn't work or is taking for every to load. maybe try rehosting it?
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    Default Re: Project: Water Cooling Turbine

    Render,
    Just found this in a TCBS worklog. The guy filed the ends flat on his LEDs, gave exactly the look I think you're going for.

    http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...t=8838&page=10



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    i experimented with frosting a peice of clear acrylic then shining a led down it the effect was fantastic dont see why you couldnt use this here i think a worklog called ice by defyant was the first to use this effect, and more recently there was one over at Bit - tech that used frosted white acrylic although i forget the name now

    any way i think that is exaclty what your after
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    Default Re: Project: Water Cooling Turbine

    This is very, very nice. I like those computer-related mods, which isn't just computers Keep it up.

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    Default Re: Project: Water Cooling Turbine

    Yeah, I'd say sanding the tips would be a good way to fix it. Otherwise, do what Remy said and put a piece of frosted plexi in front of them.
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    Default Re: Project: Water Cooling Turbine

    Wow, thanks for everyones input. I really didn't expect to get such a great responce. I'll deffinetly try sanding them down. and if that doesn't work, I can try and and an intermediate frosted plexi piece between the led's and the outside like Remy suggested. Thanks alot you guys!!!!

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    Default Re: Project: Water Cooling Turbine

    The plexi idea works great even with out direct contact with an LED. The closer the LED is the brighter the effect. The frosted plexi just defuses the glow. You could even mix two colours together like blue and red to get purple. I think Defyant did that in one of his mods. If your are looking for any tips or ideas for plexi check out any of Defyant's work. HP Res Mega being one of his more well known mods around here.
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    Default Re: Project: Water Cooling Turbine

    Great job so far man, its looking excellent. I love the idea of the turbine such a cool look imo. +rep for sure, cant wait to see the finished product.

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    Default Re: Project: Water Cooling Turbine

    well, +rep to Sgtm for the first to suggest sanding the tops of the led's, that worked great! Thank you.

    I tried it on the left one first.

    Before:


    After: Very nice and diffused!


    And here it is on the body: Much smoother glow, it still has a few "hot" spots but deffinetly not as bad. I can live with that.


    I added a little detail and rivits to the window trim and tube: -I know it looks like alot, but after airbrushing, they will fade away an be hardly noticed.






    I also painted the frame on the exhaust fan.


    Then I cut the supports for the resevoir to 3 equal lengths to fit inside the tube:


    here they are as a mock up holding the resevoir centered in a spare piece of the tube:


    I have to notch the end of each one to fit around the chrome mounting ring.


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