Gadgetory

so today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of a popular PC modding item and that is a dual 12 inch cold cathode kit so basically what this is is it's a way of lighting up your PC the particular one I have here today is a UV cold cathode kit so you can get in a variety of colors including blue red green purple yellow white and UV now the difference between purple and UV is purple is actually intended to throw purple light into your case so your whole PC will blow out purple whereas a UV cathode kit is more designed to allow UV reactive things inside your case to globe whatever color they happen to be so I mean if you look directly at a UV cathode it will look purple but the main purpose of it is to be a backlight so if you're looking for something that will actually light up your case you're looking for a color other than this one so why don't I explain everything that comes with it first of all you've got five pieces of velcro four small ones and one big one the four small ones are for using at either end of the cathodes and then mounting them to something in your case so you stick them on really the velcro that's included isn't great quality I'd recommend picking up some double-sided tape or some industrial velcro from your hardware store if you really want them to stay put however the big ones usually okay and you use that to mount the inverter now what an inverter is is it's a device for taking the 12-volt power from your power supply and converting that into something that these cathodes can use because these run on AC power which is more like the power that you'd find in your walls so basically you're taking your power your computer power supply you're turning AC into DC then you're taking that DC power putting it into here and putting it back into AC it seems very roundabout but it's the best way to run cathodes in your PC so these are the cathodes themselves they're twelve inches long or thirty centimeters long they come with little white wires attached to them I've experimented with ways of making these look nicer you can sleeve them quite easily so that's a really easy way to make them look better but you can't really lengthen them very much because what tends to happen is the one that you try to splice more wire into will be more dim so it's some very strange it shouldn't it shouldn't be that way but it is anyway I have another it on hand that I've already got set up here and I'm just going to show you what it looks like so that is a UV kit you can see it doesn't throw off a whole lot of light compared to the other ones but you do have the advantage as I showed in my mod smart SATA cable unboxing of making other stuff glow so that effect is very cool thank you for checking out my unboxing of the lodge assist 12-inch cold cathodes