Ok, I have been advised that my dual cathode invertor is possibly sending out some dirty power into my rig. So I really would like to install UV LED's in place of the cathodes. So I need some help on how to wire up like 10 LED's in a row and how to power them. Hope I'm not asking for to much, just let me know what I will need and a basic how-to. I'm an IT Director, so I have plenty of experience, just not with resistors and the like. Thanks ahead of time.
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Help, from cathodes to LEDS
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Buy LED cathodes instead?
SVC has them. They aren't really cathodes, but they look the same on the outside. The "invertor" they sell with them is not an invertor. It is a control box to make the ligths have different patterns.
SVC has them. They aren't really cathodes, but they look the same on the outside. The "invertor" they sell with them is not an invertor. It is a control box to make the ligths have different patterns.
Here they are at Xoxide, in dual tube and single tube versions. Xoxide also carries these newer "Logisys Jumbo UV Lazer LED" lights, that have 5 led's, in UV and the normal 3 led "lazer" led lights in UV here. IMHO, the "meteor light" is the better value, since there's 10 led's in each one, and a dual tube configuration only runs $8 + shipping, versus $4.50 for the single tube meteor, $5.50 for the 3-led "lazer", and $7 for the 5-led jumbo "lazer", plus shipping for each.
Of course, what you get is going to be dependant on what your requirements are, right?
Of course, what you get is going to be dependant on what your requirements are, right?
That probably won't do much, odds are the problem is a result of the inverter introducing noise into either the ground or power wiring feeding it and working it's way back to other components.waddles said:
These things are built as cheap-ass as possible, and were never designed to be used in a computer environment. I think they probably cause more otherwise unattributed glitches or crashes than people realize.