Hi all,
I've got a few cables and such like in my case which shine up under UV light. I already have a purple CCFL in there just now but thought the blue UV stuff would show up nicely under UV light. Wrong, as it turned out...
I tried a pair of mini (4") tubes and with them any more than a few centimeters away from the cables etc, they don't look any different compared to just looking at them with the purple visible light. OK I thought, I guess the mini's just don't give of as much light as the big ones so next time I was buying stuff online I stuck a Vantec 12" UV tube in the order.
Thing is it's even worse, even without the purple light on holding the vantec tube directly against UV reactive stuff it still doesn't come up brightly at all. The little ones do make stuff glow a little, quite a bit if they're very close (i.e. <= 5cm) but it's still not what I'm after at all.
I've seen plenty of pics of people's PCs with UV tinted watercooling, SATA and IDE cables, power cables etc. all glowing brightly with just 1x 12" tube so I wondered if I'm missing something with UV lights? The Vantec didn't come with an inverter so I just have it plugged into the one the purple CCFL runs off, do UV's have to have a special inverter or something? Or is there a specific brand I should be looking for?
Cheers in advance
8bit