Project: Arctic Chameleon

[TroubledMind]

Okay I have decided that I am going to put up all the pictures of this mod because it is almost near completion. I just have to solder some more LEDs in the case and replace the molex connectors with UV reactive blue ones. Below are links to my Arctic Chameleon worklog on my site along with the the monitor mod I am doing in conjunction with it.

Project: Arctic Chameleon (http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/project_troubled_arctic_chameleon.htm)
Arctic Chameleon's Spare monitor mod (http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/monitor.htm)

This case has 5 fans that are blue UV reactive and each fan has 4 blue LEDs and 4 white LEDs. I have 4 UV cold cathodes, 3 blue cold cathodes and 2 white cold cathodes, along with nexus fan controller. I also switched the power LED and the hard drive LED.

Enjoy my mod!!!

I began by painting the inside of the case with a white epoxy paint. It turned out pretty good I think.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/100_0568.jpg

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The case is a black and silver X-pider so I wanted the feet and drive bay covers to match the silver streak on the front door there. So I decided to paint them also.

These following photos are the case back together after the case is done plus the fans used in this mod.
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I decided to do a simple lighting test to see how well the white epoxy I used on the inside of the case looked when lit up by cathodes.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/000_0063.jpg
Blue cold cathodes on

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/000_0064.jpg
Blue cathodes on but with side panel on now

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/000_0073.jpg
UV cold cathodes with UV reactive paint bottles in the case

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/000_0075.jpg
Same picture with Side Panel on

I decided that I would like the back of the case to be black like everything else instead of silver, so I painted it black and installed cathode rocker switches.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/100_0817.jpg

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Electronic components for this mod

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UV indicator LED on when cold cathode rocker is turned on

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/100_0832.jpg
Blue and both UV cold cathodes on with thier indicator lights

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/100_0833.jpg
Again but with flash

The most important part of this mod were the fans. I got 5 Blue UV reactive fans that have 4 Blue LEDs in them. I took each fan and disconnected the LEDs from the fan and put them on thier own circuit. I then added 4 white LEDs to each fan and put them on a circuit. By connecting them to a hub I can turn all the fans in my case either blue or white or both by using two key switches in the front of my case.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/100_0838.jpg
working on the fan

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/100_0839.jpg

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Just UV light on it

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/100_0843.jpg
Just the Blue LEDs on

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/100_0840.jpg
Just white LEDs on

Those last few are without the fan spinning these next few the fan will be spinning

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/100_0844.jpg
No LEDs on while spinning

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Blue LEDs while spinning

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White LEDs on while spinning

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Both Blue and White LEDs on

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/mini-100_1578.JPG
Key switches installed in the front to control fan LEDs with indicator LEDs above each key switch

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All dark and niced and sleeved

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UV cathodes on with no LEDs on

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Blue cathodes on but flash drowns it out

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Blue cathodes on

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White cathodes on

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Blue and white cathodes on

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/mini-100_1590.JPG
Blue LEDs on the fans

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/mini-100_1591.JPG
White LEDs on the fan

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/mini-100_1592.JPG
Blue and White LEDs on

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/mini-100_1595.JPG
Again

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Fan in the 3.5 bay with blue LEDs on

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Same thing but with the white LEDs

http://members.lycos.co.uk/troubledmind/BLue%20case/Arctic%20Chameleon/mini-100_1598.JPG
Same thing but both blue and white LEDs are on.

[XEON]

Nice Job! All the blue and the black and the white look good! Nice painting does not look cheesy! All in all good effory A+ in my book because its clean!

[[GF]Zenix]

nice

[Lightning]

Looks great!
The only thing that could be imroved is your wire management. All the wires are sleeved, but they go everywhere. Try to zip tie some to the side of the case or hide them behind the mobo or in empty drive bays.

[TroubledMind]

I understand completely but it is a little hard to do because I have 4 wires coming from each fan 2+ and 2- for the LEDs plus the fan motor wire. and all of the wires for the led's have to go to a hub in the bottom of the case.
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[TroubledMind]

I did some stuff with the wires but not much since I am at college now. Was considering the other day doing a case based on my college. I hear in the mechanical engineering building they got some machines that the students can use for routing and cutting with CAD.
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[petre_pete]

dude wow how much all that rig up cost you man?

[TroubledMind]

The stuff for modding it didn't really cost that much, it was more the time involved in moding all 5 fans and a lot of planning. I was actually wondering if I should submit this idea to a company like vantec or aerocoll and they should sell controllers packed with fans that can switch from two different colors.
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