CCFL mod

[AmBush]

Here's a 10 minuet mod

Ok so your Building your new Rig and you've got a case the size of a small fridge,

you want CCFL's in it Rather than have 1 Tube per Inverter or you just want to hide them wires out of sight.

Apologies for some of the pics still gettin used to camera

Your New CCFL with its rather short cable

Get an old Faded or broken Tube (one i bent too much) and Cut off where marked

Bare the wire ready for connecting

Mark Either of the Wires with a Permanant pen, mark the same wire on the new one too. This will help identification

Taking the New Tube, cut off the connector. (i am staggering the lengths as i am heatshinking the entire cable)

Remeber join the marked wires

If your only soldering and heatshrinking the joints put heatshrink on now.

All soldered up now You can test it out

Getting the 5mm Heatshrink on was a bit of a struggle (I Used a big sewing needle as a pull-through)

Job's a good 'un

Time taken: 15 minuets(approx)

Cost: £0.00p (Exactly)

My FIRST (hardware) Tutorial Go easy

 

[equk]

a how-to on extending a wire?

 

[Rastalovich]

a how-to on extending a wire?

What u`r missing is that it`s extending the wires without the purchasing of an extension cable, no twisted wires with black-tape holding them together(that always manages to unconnect itself - some1 will have to explain to me how that always happens!!! lol ) - and it`s a neat job with the sleeving sooo keeps u`r rig looking slick also.

I think both a and a are in order here

 

[equk]

What u`r missing is that it`s extending the wires without the purchasing of an extension cable, no twisted wires with black-tape holding them together(that always manages to unconnect itself - some1 will have to explain to me how that always happens!!! lol ) - and it`s a neat job with the sleeving sooo keeps u`r rig looking slick also.

I think both a and a are in order here

It's still very simple.

Looks ok with the sleeving I guess.

Soldering 2/4 wires together and then putting sleeving over them

 

[Rastalovich]

It's still very simple.

Looks ok with the sleeving I guess.

Soldering 2/4 wires together and then putting sleeving over them

U`d be supprized.

We had Ham on here the other month - who quite frankly knows alot more tech/mobo/power/cpu/mem stuff than I`ll ever be able to learn off him tbh - asking about something like speaker wires ?!!??! - is inherently the same thing.

U can marry this kind of smart conversion up to similar stuffs like fan wires and so on, but the emphasis, I guess, here is it`s a smart end result.

Jeez I`d botch it with tape. <<<< then u don`t have me showing u picks of my ghetto`d wires

 

[PinGu^]

Yea, if i gotta extend a wire, i just wrap the two bare ends around eachother and use some eletrical tape...

But if i cant actually be bothered i solder them... but it normally ends up in me burning holes though things in my room on purpose.

 

[Ham]

We had Ham on here the other month - who quite frankly knows alot more tech/mobo/power/cpu/mem stuff than I`ll ever be able to learn off him tbh - asking about something like speaker wires ?!!??! - is inherently the same thing

That was dave iirc. I don't remember posting anything like that...

 

[Rastalovich]

That was dave iirc. I don't remember posting anything like that...

Oo oops sorry m8, but the point is pretty valid. If it was Dave, Dave knows his stuff afaic.

 

[robump]

Can i just confirm, you are just extending the lenth of the wires?

That is not exactly rocket science!!!!

But hay, i least i know now!!!!

Rob