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cold cathode splicing

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Hey guys, wondering about splicing up a few wires for my brother's X-Qpack..
Here's the situation: In total we're going to have about 7 cold cathodes in this X-Qpack.

Cold cathodes have those 2 white wires which attach to a plastic plug. The plug goes into the blue box thing (I think its called an inverter or something?) Anyway, we decided to buy a nice black fan controller with blue lights, controls 3 fans and theres a fourth knob for cold cathode lights, it has a built in spot for those plugs. 2 plugs, just like the blue inverter.

So here's the scoop. This fan controller has a setting for the cold cathode lights, making them sound reactive. I personally think this is awesome and so does my brother. We both want as many blinking sound reactive lights as we can to be controlled by this inverter. There are 7 cold cathodes and 3 fans in this X Qpack: 1 120 mm ccf (which has 2 cold cathode rings, and therefore 2 of those plugs), and 2 80 mm fans drilled into the sides (one between the 120mm fan and the hard drives, and one more on the other side right next to the video card and sound card in the bottom right corner). Both of the 80 mm fans are cold cathode fans. On either side of the motherboard are 12.25 inch cold cathode beams. The last cold cathode is a 4 inch in between the RAM sticks to get a nice glow from those.

Now then. I'm wondering about splicing up the white wires to most of those, keeping track of the left and right ones to keep everything the same, getting the cc's down to 2 plugs so they could all be plugged into the sound reactive inverter controlled by the fan controller.

I thought about this for awhile, and got worried about running all 7 cold cathodes into 2 plugs... would the fan control be able to handle all those? Is it safe? Would they be dimmer? So i started questioning it, thought I'd bring the dilemma here to see what you guys thought. I really dont know anything about splicing up these wires or even if it'll work. My plan B is to attach 4 cold cathodes to the fan controller, and splice the remaining 3 to a pci switch in the back for only on or off.

Is trying all this cold cathode splicing a good idea? Any suggestions? Thanks guys.
 
You cannot run more or less CCFLs off of an invertor than what it is designed to handle.

Hell, a 4" cathode won't run off a 12" invertor even.

It sounds like your controller has an invertor built-in, since you say it has plugs that fit the bulbs themselves. Can you provide pics of this controller and/or a make/model #?
 
There is an option. Find the 2 wires that feed the built-in invertor and splice into those. Use them to power as many invertors as you need, up to about 8 I would guess.
 
ok well here is what we're working with.....can u expand alittle bit more on that....I have an idea...but i want to make sure....


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