making water neon colors? [Archive]

Dissolved

11-04-01, 03:25 AM

i was wondering what ppl use in the water cooling to turn it neon colors? im gonna get a water cooling setup next week, and id like to know what to put in the water for color.. thanks

The Overclocker

11-04-01, 04:27 AM

dye lite, you can get it at www.overclock-watercool.com

bergie007

11-04-01, 05:49 AM

For slightly more 'plain' colours, you can try normal food colouring, like the one you get for icing on cakes etc. That might work for the 'budget' water cooling systems as well :D

Mac42

11-04-01, 06:16 AM

I wonder if there's anything you could add to the water that would "absorb" light and glow... like those stars you can put on your ceiling that glow in the dark after being exposed to light. With that stuff you could rig up a water-proof light inside your reservior and your tubes would always glow. Problem would be finding something that doesn't adversly affect cooling or harm any parts like the pump bearings/seals.

Alik AlRahim

11-04-01, 01:41 PM

Wouldn't it leave deposits? I'd think after a while food coloring would end up leaving some sort of deposits, because it is sugar based no? sugar+metal=corrosion? am I completely off base?

Christoph

11-04-01, 03:15 PM

The ingredients in food coloring (or at least the brand I have) are water, propylene glycol, Yellow #5, Blue #1, Red #40, Red #3, propylparaben. I know that none of those are sugars, but I don't know their effects on a watercooling system. Any chemists want to chime in?

lunky

11-04-01, 03:34 PM

i got some of the dye-light from the link above.. man is this stuff cool

http://www.akwz71.ukgateway.net/cool5.jpg

added to my koolance case.. looks sweet

Christoph

11-04-01, 04:09 PM

That is the pimpinest mod I've ever seen. How long did it take and how skilled are you?

I think that I'll be happy just looking at it and trying to keep the drool off my keyboard.

lunky

11-04-01, 04:20 PM

the honest truth.. the window with etch and adding the diye-light and painting fans etc.. took about two hours to do the lot.. and i`m not that skilled, just took my time and a steady hand.. oh and some little tricks.. ie the sides of the cards that glow green took me about 20 secs to do and you dont even have to turn the computer off... the hardest thing to do was the etch, its quite simple really..:)

in day light it looks like this

http://www.akwz71.ukgateway.net/cool1.jpg

but thanks for you comments..

Dissolved

11-04-01, 04:42 PM

Originally posted by lunky
the honest truth.. the window with etch and adding the diye-light and painting fans etc.. took about two hours to do the lot.. and i`m not that skilled, just took my time and a steady hand.. oh and some little tricks.. ie the sides of the cards that glow green took me about 20 secs to do and you dont even have to turn the computer off... the hardest thing to do was the etch, its quite simple really..:)

in day light it looks like this

http://www.akwz71.ukgateway.net/cool1.jpg

but thanks for you comments..

could u show me more pics?

lunky

11-04-01, 04:54 PM

of the case mods..? i dont have any step by step ones but would mail you with step by step instructions including all the little secrets i picked up..lol.. well here one of the case..or any advice you may need..

http://www.akwz71.ukgateway.net/cool3.jpg

I had to stealth the cdrom as it looked crap with a nomal cdrom fascia in there, i had no intention of doing beforehand ..

fuzzba11

11-04-01, 05:24 PM

Awesome mods! Are you using a blacklight in there or does the dyelight actually glow by itself??

VashTheStampede

11-04-01, 06:02 PM

Originally posted by Mac42
I wonder if there's anything you could add to the water that would "absorb" light and glow... like those stars you can put on your ceiling that glow in the dark after being exposed to light. With that stuff you could rig up a water-proof light inside your reservior and your tubes would always glow. Problem would be finding something that doesn't adversly affect cooling or harm any parts like the pump bearings/seals.

Someone told me one time what it is they put on watch faces and in those stars to make them absorb light and glow. It was some radioactive element, but used in such little quantity that it was not harmful to you or me.

Not sure if it would work if dilluted into water, since the element is painted on watch faces, you may have to use a greater amount of the element which may be harmful.

~RT~

YMAN

11-04-01, 06:36 PM

Originally posted by lunky
of the case mods..? i dont have any step by step ones but would mail you with step by step instructions including all the little secrets i picked up..lol.. well here one of the case..or any advice you may need..

http://www.akwz71.ukgateway.net/cool3.jpg

I had to stealth the cdrom as it looked crap with a nomal cdrom fascia in there, i had no intention of doing beforehand ..

SEND ME an E-mail!!!
I must know!!! I MUST TRY!!!

cowanrg

11-04-01, 06:40 PM

email me, i would also like to know how you did this. especially the cards, and making the water light up in daylight.

YMAN

11-04-01, 06:50 PM

My favorite mods are,
The cards and the fan!

Dont forget to e-mail me!
And send me attachments! (Pics)
TONS OF THEM!!!

I also like the etch.
I wanted to get the radioactive one but I am
am waiting to find someone elts that did it,
mainly so I know a step-by-step.

Also If anyone elts wants to show off
there mods feel free to e-mail me too!
YTecPc@Bellsouth.net
and INCLUDE PICTURES!!! - I just love them!

lunky

11-04-01, 07:45 PM

yman, and cowanrg e-mails are on there way.. with brief step by steps. i`m based in the uk, so i could give names of places that the products were got from, but if your from the USA then the stores we have may differ, as for the steps by steps.. mail me at the address i have sent. i will do the best i can ..armed with digital camera and cover the main bits that you are interested in..

if anyone else would like some help.. then mail me at lunky@ntlworld.com and the same applys..:).. thanx again for the good comments, and i hope i can be of help to someone..

cheers

lunky

kevin_bouchard

11-04-01, 08:16 PM

another cheap way to make your water glow is to put dish detergent in it, but you need a black light for that.

Hey Lunky nice case, how did you get the sides of your cards to glow? when i installed my black light the cards were already glowing!!

Oh does anyone know where to get that black light paint or coating in canada or online?(the stuff that glows under black lights)

thanks

lunky

11-04-01, 08:29 PM

hello kevin..

the secret is.. stabilo boss highlighter pens.. available form any good office store , you can get em in, blue, green, yellow, pink
green and yellow work best, one wipe and thats it.. i paid £1.99 for four, say about $2.50 for four one of each colour , you can`t see it when the lights off but when the lights are on.. they glow very very well :), a 10 second mod, that looks cool..

regards lunky

kevin_bouchard

11-04-01, 08:43 PM

thanks i think its time for a trip to the local store:D
were they glowing before you used the pen(my ram also glows)?
also do you get that misty look from your black light?

*JEREMY*

11-04-01, 10:06 PM

So hey lunky,how does that koolance case perform,what kind of temps are you honestly getting?I was gonna get one at one time but read some reviews that were good and some bad so i just decided to build my own.It just seems like it would be hard to keep a T-Bird cool with how small the components are for it.

Dissolved

11-05-01, 04:08 PM

Originally posted by MaX PowerZ
So hey lunky,how does that koolance case perform,what kind of temps are you honestly getting?I was gonna get one at one time but read some reviews that were good and some bad so i just decided to build my own.It just seems like it would be hard to keep a T-Bird cool with how small the components are for it.

i would of got one, the case is fugly..

Gendal

11-06-01, 02:31 PM

I found this out at over at hardocp from a post, but Nappa autoparts sells a leak detection system tracer dye made by balkamp. Comes in little brown bottles and it looks orange in the bottle. But when you add a few drops to the water it goes green very quickly. Add a black lamp and it glows great.

Below are two examples from my test water setup.
http://24.1.183.123/images/wcpc2.jpg

http://24.1.183.123/images/wcpcuv2.jpg

the dye is like $5 i think and a bottle will last you forever.

Christoph

11-06-01, 04:45 PM

Looks good. Thanks for the cheap mod idea.

What's the stuff made of? I'd like to use it in my bong, but I don't know if I want to breathe it or not.

combatmedic

11-06-01, 05:19 PM

The self glowing stuff is tritium. There are some problems with using this for the purpose that is described here. One, it is a Beta particle source (it's radioactive). Two, it's expensive. Last time I saw a price for this, it was something like $300 per ounce. BTW, it's also a gas in it's natural state.

-Mike

Christoph

11-06-01, 05:27 PM

Originally posted by combatmedic
The self glowing stuff is tritium. There are some problems with using this for the purpose that is described here. One, it is a Beta particle source (it's radioactive). Two, it's expensive. Last time I saw a price for this, it was something like $300 per ounce. BTW, it's also a gas in it's natural state.

-Mike

You're not talking about the same stuff as Gendal, are you? What about the leak detection dye? What's in it?

cowanrg

11-06-01, 05:28 PM

man, sounds like everything about that stuff just sucks.

Christoph

11-06-01, 05:39 PM

Originally posted by cowanrg
man, sounds like everything about that stuff just sucks.

What are you talking about? There are two different dyes being discussed. The glow in the dark one is bad, but the leak test dye looks like some classy stuff.

KeyboardCowboy

11-06-01, 05:58 PM

YMAN

11-06-01, 06:04 PM

Anyone try waisting there extra highlighters?
Yellow & Green work good!

combatmedic

11-06-01, 06:29 PM

RedneckTech was asking about the stuff that is put on watches.

I agree that the leek testing stuff looks sweet, unfortunally the WAF on that is low.

-Mike

Gendal

11-06-01, 10:47 PM

the leak detection dye is completly safe (i think hehe) they use it to detect leaks in car radiators so naturally the stuff is always leaking out everywhere and draining into the environment. its also like $5 for the entire bottle, not 300 per ounce =p

the other gentleman is talking about self glowing dye, the leak detection dye doesnt glow till exposed to a uv (black) light.

Dissolved

11-07-01, 03:45 AM

Originally posted by Gendal
the leak detection dye is completly safe (i think hehe) they use it to detect leaks in car radiators so naturally the stuff is always leaking out everywhere and draining into the environment. its also like $5 for the entire bottle, not 300 per ounce =p

the other gentleman is talking about self glowing dye, the leak detection dye doesnt glow till exposed to a uv (black) light.

that sounds pretty cool.. but if you setup your water cooling system with that dye, and your looking for leaks with a uv light? hmm
i dont see the point really, i mean if ur watercooling setup is leaking ud sure as heck see it..? i mean why buy dye just for leaks? i dont see a point for this in a computer water cooled setup..

combatmedic

11-07-01, 07:46 AM

Look at the first page of this thread with the glowing tubes. That's the point.

-Mike

Christoph

11-07-01, 08:42 AM

Originally posted by combatmedic
Look at the first page of this thread with the glowing tubes. That's the point.

-Mike

Agreed. Leak testing is a secondary benefit.

Killer Chef

11-07-01, 10:39 AM

Lunky, That is one sweet case!!

When I saw it my Jaw dropped and I went all giddy inside!

I am in love with a computer case...how weird is that!:eek:
Congratulations on a job very well done.

Gendal

11-07-01, 11:23 AM

If you can see the leak you are probably already screwed, I just use the dye because it looks great.

lunky

11-07-01, 12:54 PM

the dye is used for leak testing, on tests rigs, when new componants are made ie, new cooling blocks, yes you would see a leak pretty damn quick if a hose was leaking, but if the core of the cpu cracked or a blade on a rad went and it was a very slight leak, it is poss for it to go undetected for a while, and in some cases if noticed with the dye it can be repaired or replaced prior to damage happening, as for the pictures i have posted its just cause i think it looks cool....thanks S8N..for your comments..

lunky