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thats right! learn em while theyre young!zeusenergy said:...He's only 7 but hes been playing Q3 since he was 2! LMFAO.....
zeusenergy said:I tried that, Spange. Maybe I put too much heat in one place, but the corners aren't too nice, there are little "blisters" embedded in the glass. This was for the mobo cover. You'll never see the flaws once that piece is painted and installed, but the outer covers will need to be transparent over some curves.
Hey Altec, it's been hard to do these things so intricately as I want to rush on thru, but I'll bide my time and make a great case in the end.altec said:This is sweet all the work your putting in to all the parts of this. Its mind blowing i mean just the video card by it self is insane. Can't wait to see this all done.
Hmmm, so maybe I shouldn't let the heat stay in one place too long.... Serves me right for trying to make it bend faster!SpangeMonkee said:hmm.. sounds like it got too hot. I usually wave it back and forth to slowly melt the plastic, then cool it with some sprayed water.
zeusenergy said:Jdub- The LEDs on the card are wired in series and each one is rated at 2.1 volts. 5 times 2.1 is 10.5, so I am overdriving them slightly.... This is okay by me, cause the LEDs in Framed have survived for over a year and a half and they are wired identically. At least with this setup the whole FHS on the card can be pulled without desoldering wires or disconnecting yet another connector, two is plenty!
I could always add yet another LED to the heatsink too.... LMAO.jdub765 said:I'm not sure if you know already, but if you're overdriving them, you'll probably need a resistor... LEDs become less resistive when they heat up, so they allow more current through, which heats them more, and you get the point. The heat will cause them to eventually burn out. You might not need it since they're sunk into the heatsink and are being blown on, but I thought I'd give you the heads up.
I replaced the dash lights in my car w/ blue LEDs and the driver's side window switch eventually blew out after about 5 months because I never switched the resistor. The stock LED there was a green one, so I needed a different resistor, but I was too lazy to go out and buy the correct one, so it slowly overheated.
i second that!zeusenergy said:I could always add yet another LED to the heatsink too.... LMAO.
Well lets see... I have the five LEDs in the vid card, five more in the DVD drive, three for the front mounted buttons, plus the six for indicators in the lower cover module. Then there will be five in the power supply aiming towards the mainboard area and prolly another six per side for underneath the mobo cover and drive cover. I think that may be enough....TSS Modder said:i second that!
zeusenergy said:Well lets see... I have the five LEDs in the vid card, five more in the DVD drive, three for the front mounted buttons, plus the six for indicators in the lower cover module. Then there will be five in the power supply aiming towards the mainboard area and prolly another six per side for underneath the mobo cover and drive cover. I think that may be enough....
Yeah, I guess you are right.... Update time!altec said:NEVER!!!!
OOOH, I'm liking that idea!!!!!!!!MechWarrior said:Amazing work so far. I cannot wait to see how the movement works.
How about this for the DVD: put a LED on the tray itself so when you eject it lights up the CD and tray area in the dark. Easy placement in the night
zeusenergy said:OOOH, I'm liking that idea!!!!!!!!
If I do the LEDs on the ejected disk, I'll make contacts on the tray itself and also on the inside of the DVD housing. This way 5VDC will run to two spots near the tray stop tabs, and make contact when the tray hits those tabs. Probably put the actual LEDs in the faceplate of the drive and aim them at the ejected disk to save on the trouble of wiring the tray itself, too. Thanks for the comments, you gave me some new ideas to play withthore said:just for the sake of mentioning it, you might want to make shure the light is off when the drive is closed
thore
Hey, thanks It was easy Yeah, right! Took alot of time (total 8 hours with paint and etch) to make those parts but the basic tool you need for the job is a router bit and attchment for the Dremel. You can get a "Rotary tool router table" at Sears for $30. It's awesome and well worth the $. Especially since I can't yet afford a real full-size table and router Soon, tho. The GPU card cover is bolted right at the points in the card where large heatsinks normally mount thru. The mobo cover will be temporarily mounted for now till the aluminum case frame is finished, and then will bolt directly into the frame with mounting tabs made from aluminum as well. I should be mocking up the hardware main components soon as the wiring harnesses will need to be made up and the power supply mods should be started too. So you will see everything coming together finally even tho it will be a temporary mount. Until the case frame is done....daedal said:Wow.. I'm truly amazed at the high quality of your work. I'd love to see how you fabricated and mounted the motherboard and video card covers! Very intrigued by those.
zeusenergy said:Yeah, I guess you are right.... Update time!
I got some time this weekend to do a little work. Had to cut open that brand-new, (only used to test it out) DVD drive. Take one new drive, cut it open, wire some remote leads for LED and eject button, install 5 LEDs without interfering with the tray, make a logo out of polystyrene, add paint and shake.....
Thanks, bro. The acrylic cover will hide any imperfections in the metal. Just gotta get around to doing it!CrimsonSky said:that looks pretty cool, but the cut-outs look a bit rough--maybe some more time with a set of rifler files to clean up the choppy edges?..--Keep up the good work!
Wow, thanx! I think that was the plan all along. To make it entertaining like the Bit-Tech.net worklogs. The guys across the pond in England really know how to hobby. And they make it possible to see what will be to come from their very complete writeups and concept drawings. If you haven't guessed already, I'm half anglo myself....Majin said:Okay... I know when you first started this I said I was hooked... Then I forgot all about it.
But I just found this thread again and after about a solid Hour of reading and looking over all the layout drawings and everything... I am RE-HOOKED!
All this hard work and extensive PRE DRAWS really make it fun to read this project. You get the visual as you read and look over everything.
I am really looking forward to seeing this thing finished!
zeusenergy said:project "Station"
Majin said:project "Station"
Will be the 4th mod to have the the Quake 3 Driver used in it.
LOL
Zeus, you have TOO MANY IDEAS!
Can you spare a few...
Hahaaaa! Too bad most of them don't ever get built or even posted! I'm a silly po' bastaad..Majin said:project "Station"
Will be the 4th mod to have the the Quake 3 Driver used in it.
LOL
Zeus, you have TOO MANY IDEAS!
Can you spare a few...
No I'm just MAD!el rolio said:you sir, are project MAD
That would be cool. It's been a long, long time since I did any modding to a "regular" case.snoopy said:i wanna see him take a premod case and make it...untacky
anyway, this is really looking nice. cant wait to see the end result
or the ones that look like this.... http://www.pricescan.com/ItemImages/ImagesL/165106.jpgsnoopy said:i just think it would be a good challenge. If i had the money, Id do it. Im just sick of these gaming computers that look like...well...this
cell_491 said:or the ones that look like this.... http://www.pricescan.com/ItemImages/ImagesL/165106.jpg
Worked on the CTF~Flag and it's almost done. The fan duct for the AGP card is also nearly done.snoopy said:i just think it would be a good challenge. If i had the money, Id do it. Im just sick of these gaming computers that look like...well...
Ahhhhhhhh! Page 2??????Majin said:ZEUS!
This Thread fell to page two!
You can't let that happen again!
More UPDATEDs needed
How are things coming with this project?
Hey Sarbz. Got to start the frame parts today. The lower plate with the mobo port cutouts is nearly done, but that's it. I've been doing the summertime thing and put the project on the back burner. Got two kids and a wife to deal with ya know...sarbz said:Any more progress zeus?