Red Nineteen Project Log 20 - 24th June 2006

Just a short update, concentrating on the electrics...

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^ First off, I plugged in the 530w Tagan, along with the two cathodes. I am surprised how quiet the Tagan is and the cathodes look pink out of the case.

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^ However, inside the case it looks very red. Not at all pink in anyway - which is a relief.

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^ The Vantec Nexus fan controller - 5 x Blue LEDs.

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^ Testing the Red LEDs I purchased. They work straight off the blue ones (no surprised there then!).

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^ The two cathodes will run along the left and bottom of the window, like so.

[img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/20/DSC02109.JPG[/img]
^ It took me ages to de-solder the flippin' first LED.

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^ Here's the cables for the new Red LEDs, running from the original Blue terminals.

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^ Testing my soldering!

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^ The rest of the 5 LEDs wiring was soldered to the legs of the old Blue LEDs, as it proved to be too fiddly to de-solder the whole things.

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^ And here's one of the 120mm fans sleeved with carbon sleeving.

I've run out of decent heat-shrink, so I'm awaiting an order from Kustom PCs for 3 metres of various sizes. Once that gets here, I'll re-wire and sleeve the rest of the fans.

So far the PC is proving to be almost silent. With all 4 fans running at full speed it's barely a hum. So much quieter than my original rig and on par with a first gen PS2 I reckon. I'll be adding an Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 64, along with an Accelero for the GPU - which should make it as quiet and cool as possible... stay tuned for more updates soon!