Gadgetory

welcome to an unboxing and first look of something that I'm very very excited about this is the phobia LED flex light now we've seen stuff like this before it's an LED light strip it plugs in via molex you can light your computer with it bla bla bla computer unique piece of art etc etc etc integrated powerfully light etc ok no no no no this is very exciting so this is available in a variety of different color configurations in length so you can get them in 30 centimeter 60 centimeter 1 20 centimeter to 40 centimeters so this is anywhere from pretty short to immensely long RGB warm white white blue green red ho UV yes unlike other competing products on the market these phobia LED light strips are available in UV these also appear to be of the waterproof variety though don't quote me on that but they're they come in casings that why am i holding it up to that camera I should be holding up to the decent camera operated by someone who knows what they're doing this is via so you can see there's a silicone seal around to cap pieces on either end so even the one with the wire coming into it seems to have some kind of a seal going on however you can see those wires are somewhat bare so I don't know that I would necessarily take this and submerge it in coolant immediately although you know what why don't we just not test that that's not really what we do on this show getting ourselves sort of fried you know we weren't done with the close-up look they'll actually come back so this is an extremely high quality sleeving being used on here even though the wires inside are colored you can not see the color of the wires which is pretty darn impressive have you got a nice close-up of that diesel alright awesome and then it plugs in via 3 pin adaptor oh cool so you can power them off a fan cable this is something I haven't seen before that's outstanding so you can run these to every corner of your case without actually running wires and then it just includes an adapter that it's a sleeve nice beautifully sleeved 4-pin molex to other more different molex so you can daisy-chain them that will also power one of the LED strips so we're going to go ahead and plug this bad boy in to a system here so let's go ahead and click the thing and remember guys always power the system down before plugging in any accessories or peripherals because this can reduce the risk of shorting out components or anything else sort of generally bad happening remember guys do as I say not as I do all right there we have it so guys for those of you who think well the cameras really don't pick up that light very well but trust me it's not here I'm just going to put this down so that maybe the half-decent camera operator can have a look at it remember guys UV lights are not purple lights they are UV lights they're not intended to cast a particular color in your case but they are by nature somewhat purple looking these are extremely bright and I am super stoked on getting these installed in my case on a bit of a UV nut now they look kind of pink in the in the video we're taking right now but don't mind that that's actually not how they look in person they do look more purple I'm about to cut across the camera so that I can turn off the lights so I can give you guys some idea how they're reacting with the pink slick with some of the UV reactive components we have here so this is one of those old BFI land party cables so I'm going to go ahead and show you guys what that looks like under the UV light so without the UV light you can see it doesn't look like a whole lot well that now it's completely dark good work guys there we go so UV light shows that the the yellow cable lights up like a beast this is sort of a pink ninja star thing that I got a sort of a gag gift at one point so that's lighting up extremely nicely even at a distance so I'm holding it about 15 centimeters away this is in complete pitch blackness from the UV components that I have here and it's still lighting them up quite well this is about 30 centimetres away so we're still getting a fair amount of light on them in fact I'd say diesel should probably if there's a way bump up the to represent more like what it looks like in real life yeah that's probably more like what it's looking like in real life right now there we go so these are some Swift tech coils from back in the day when they made those so that's that's an extreme that's at 30 centimeters away guys and then finally over here we've got some primo flex LRT tubing so these this saw tubing isn't as glowy as sort of some tubing out there but if you get a little bit closer so this is it about 15 centimeters away you can see it's got a pretty strong UV effect there and last but not least on the motherboard behind me here I have one of Intel's blue SATA cables that they include with their with their older bad axe boards I think that's where I got this thing and you can see that that's quite UV reactive as well so what's exciting about this guy's is the fact that here let's switch to the other camera let's see how this goes oh and the lights are all dead now that really didn't work very well at all I was planning to point the UV light at myself in order to sort of have some light on myself that would look somewhat good umm the exciting thing about this is unlike UV cathodes we are not limited to having to have stiff tubes so you can run them into the little nooks and crannies of your case also they're powered by 12 volt so you don't have to deal with having inverters which are quite large to convert from DC to AC power all over your case in order to get UV lighting they're slimmer profile which means again you can fit them into places that you can't do with cathodes and also they are much less likely to die over time every cathode I've ever bought and that's like at least 30 has either died or faded over time especially the UV ones because the UV light causes the glue to break down at the ends and so the the square pieces at the ends actually just start coming off after you've had them running for about a year so it's just not a very good user experience I am hoping that these LED versions will be significantly better and when I redo my personal build which is coming soon I am definitely going to be using these instead of cathodes based on the experience I've had with them here don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos and I hope you've enjoyed this one