- Joined
- Apr 27, 2004
The Introduction
In the past few weeks my knowledge about the WC has greatly increased no thanks to personal experience & OCF. My first loop was just for the learning experience. Nothing special like colored water, just straight up ugly generic greenish clear water and a simple loop. I mentioned to Sent that I wanted Orange looking water and he mentioned that Prestone Dexcool Antifreeze was Orange, so I went to the local Autozone and bought some of that - I also got a few gallons of Distilled Water while I was at it. Making some 90/10 mixes I choose the one that was more accurate and re-did my whole loop, fixing a few kinks I had, changing the pumps location and making the tubingmore manageable. Since I had recently got my first consistent job I had some cash to go for a lighting theme and make the bad *** rig look bad ***
The Problem
Well, sadly, there is just about no known Orange UV Dye around. People have tried using Orange Highlighters and squeezing the juices out of them to get a UV Reaction but it usually fails and results in orange fingers for a few days
. Aside from that you were basicly SOL and had to go without Orange UV Dyeness until I found a link somewhere to an eBay type website, http://www.cool-cases-usa.com/ , that sold a product called "Brilliant Orange UV Dye". So I said, eh, wth, I may as well get a bottle or two, $12 is no major loss.
The Product
So I purchased two bottles, 2 12" UV Cathode Tubes, 2 4" UV Cathode Tubes, 2x Orange UV Reactive Zip Ties and some "Red" UV Reactive SATA Cables. I ordered them yesterday morning, they shipped the same day and was at my house when I woke up
Kudo's to CCUSA for the bad *** shipping. They sent it USPS 2 Day Priority and only cost like...$6 for shipping? Nice. Anyways. After a hour or two spent of zip tieing up a few things swapping some cables and getting shot in the eye with a Distilled Water, Antifreeze & Orange UV Dye mix, the final product came out, well, UV Reactive Orange! Alotta people have shunned this product saying it doesn't work or saying it's BS because there is no Orange UV Dye...well they were wrong. I added maybe 15 drops into my res, maybe 3 at a time letting the water mix up. It only took about 30 minutes. My water is now glowing a sweet looking Orange with a blue overlay from my case fans. Sadly, the pictures will have to wait until tomorrow when my POS battery hogging camera's battery charges
The Conclusion
Overall I am VERY happy with the outcome. My rig is turning into exactly what I pictured. I ordered 2 more 12" Uv Cathode Tubes so it lights up brighter, as well as a 80mm UV Fan to go over my videocard since it gets so hot I cannot touch it. You simply can't beat $6 for a product that works exactly like it should. The only downside that is noticable is under regular NON-UV light, the water appears to be red-ish. It doesn't look bad though, and that's what counts
I'll be sure to get those pictures up for you guys ASAP!!!
***SEE BELOW FOR PICTURES!!!***
In the past few weeks my knowledge about the WC has greatly increased no thanks to personal experience & OCF. My first loop was just for the learning experience. Nothing special like colored water, just straight up ugly generic greenish clear water and a simple loop. I mentioned to Sent that I wanted Orange looking water and he mentioned that Prestone Dexcool Antifreeze was Orange, so I went to the local Autozone and bought some of that - I also got a few gallons of Distilled Water while I was at it. Making some 90/10 mixes I choose the one that was more accurate and re-did my whole loop, fixing a few kinks I had, changing the pumps location and making the tubingmore manageable. Since I had recently got my first consistent job I had some cash to go for a lighting theme and make the bad *** rig look bad ***
The Problem
Well, sadly, there is just about no known Orange UV Dye around. People have tried using Orange Highlighters and squeezing the juices out of them to get a UV Reaction but it usually fails and results in orange fingers for a few days
. Aside from that you were basicly SOL and had to go without Orange UV Dyeness until I found a link somewhere to an eBay type website, http://www.cool-cases-usa.com/ , that sold a product called "Brilliant Orange UV Dye". So I said, eh, wth, I may as well get a bottle or two, $12 is no major loss. The Product
So I purchased two bottles, 2 12" UV Cathode Tubes, 2 4" UV Cathode Tubes, 2x Orange UV Reactive Zip Ties and some "Red" UV Reactive SATA Cables. I ordered them yesterday morning, they shipped the same day and was at my house when I woke up
Kudo's to CCUSA for the bad *** shipping. They sent it USPS 2 Day Priority and only cost like...$6 for shipping? Nice. Anyways. After a hour or two spent of zip tieing up a few things swapping some cables and getting shot in the eye with a Distilled Water, Antifreeze & Orange UV Dye mix, the final product came out, well, UV Reactive Orange! Alotta people have shunned this product saying it doesn't work or saying it's BS because there is no Orange UV Dye...well they were wrong. I added maybe 15 drops into my res, maybe 3 at a time letting the water mix up. It only took about 30 minutes. My water is now glowing a sweet looking Orange with a blue overlay from my case fans. Sadly, the pictures will have to wait until tomorrow when my POS battery hogging camera's battery charges The Conclusion
Overall I am VERY happy with the outcome. My rig is turning into exactly what I pictured. I ordered 2 more 12" Uv Cathode Tubes so it lights up brighter, as well as a 80mm UV Fan to go over my videocard since it gets so hot I cannot touch it. You simply can't beat $6 for a product that works exactly like it should. The only downside that is noticable is under regular NON-UV light, the water appears to be red-ish. It doesn't look bad though, and that's what counts
I'll be sure to get those pictures up for you guys ASAP!!!
***SEE BELOW FOR PICTURES!!!***
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