So for my first big question here at the forums, I've been fixing with my Tsunami case now and then when inspiration has struck, and I'm currently trying to get a good UV setting inside it. I've installed a pre-modded OCZ modstream with UV reactive sleeving in it aswell as some UV reactive IDE cables. I have two CCFL blackligt pipes installed, one at the very bottom edge of the window and one at the front edge of the mobo, here is a picture for reference.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ami_inside.jpg

The picture below does not really give justice as to how it looks since the digicam enhances the light a lot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...unami_dark.jpg

Anyways on to the question:

The only place where my UV is really visible enough are the IDE and power cable at the very bottom of the case since thats the only place where the blacklight hits the reactive component from the viewers side. What products should i use to be able to get a stronger UV-effect? I really dont have room for any more large CCFL pipes.

My only idea so far has been to buy either of these products (sorry swedish site, but you can see the pictures):

3-way UV led
www.gtek.se/index.php?mode=item&id=819&session=807d96f7aa70269bf85cbe0861f5d7fd

round ccfl ring
http://www.gtek.se/index.php?mode=it...5cbe0861f5d7fd

... and then install them in strategic places like the free optical drive bays to illuminate the upper portion of cabling.

So my question is: How would you guys improve the UV effect? Maybe (probably) you have a brilliant solution that I haven't thought of.

My to-do list after this includes:
Dremeling up the fan grills
Replacing fans
Adding custom window without fan
Engraving the before mentioned window

Any other spontaneous ideas?

Well ive got 1 thats pretty sneaky and hides you cathodes without losing the uv effectiveness. put one of your uv cathodes on the bottom inside part of your PSU rails (the ones that extend to your cd-rom bays) then hide the inverter inside one of your drive bays so you cant see it. It should give you a very effective uv souce to your componets and people will wonder where the cathode is to show all of the uv reactive goodness.

yeh if u want to put the cathode on the psu rail it looks awsome ive done that with my AT case and its awsome its an even lighting, pretty much throught the case it only lacks a little bit on the bottom.
And with the light being there all the wires are hidden soo its a great place as "cool dude" has said...

you could also paint the inside of ur case.. just to get rid of that steel look, hmm what else could ya doo........
and in the words of $SOLID$ u could just roam up and down the isles of like a home depot or rona maybe even a home hardware.... ud be surprised what u can find there.....
thas bout it...

Happy modding & GL

Lee

he also said that hes got a cathode on the bottom of his case so i dont think he'll have to worry about that at the bottom

Hmm, with such a big window revealing everything, it won't be easy to "conceal" a UV cathode...you can buy 6" and 4" cathode tubes. I concealed a 4" cathode to the inner surface of my side panel, horizontally in between the two "window gills" of Project Pisces, and it provided enough illumination to make the upper half of the case's UV goodies glow nicely.

The attached pics show:

1. Without the additional 4" UV cathode (because the pic was taken without the side panel where it is attached); notice the dark area north of the AGP card.

2. With the additional 4" cathode, and side panel installed.

Since your case has very few places where you can conceal a cathode, maybe just mount it on the inner surface of your window in the appropriate place.

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Another solution could be to use a reflective surface of some kind (aluminum foil, car mirror patch, chrome tape, whatever) behind or to the side of the CCFL so that the light is reflected towards the UV goodies.

Let's say you only have one CD/DVD-ROM installed, all your other 5.25 bays are open. You install a UV CCFL vertically just inside the bays wall, and use a piece of chrome tape on the front panel side, to reflect the light back towards the UV IDE cables, PSU cables, or whatever else you have.

If your case has a somewhat hidden roof (not easily viewable thru the window panel), you can mount one to the inside roof, and use the chrome tape/whatever to focus the UV light down into the guts of the rig.