CCLF Rounded Fan and UV Reactive Fan

Let's take the CCLF rounded fan (left) first.

Specifications

Transparent fans with Ultra Violet reactive neon

Air Flow : 35.83 CFM
Noise Level : 32 dBA
Rated Speed : 3000 RPM
Size : 80 x 80 x 25
Available in Blue, red, green, UV blue, red or green

It's your average fan performance wise, and unfortunately, due to my strange bias towards buying Chieftec/Antec cases lately, I won't have any pictures of this in my case. This is down to the mounting brackets that are used in the cases; the clips would break the neon tube part of the fan. But out of a case it did sound a little loud for my liking.
But thanks to the way it's wired up (for those of you who can fit it into their cases) the fan is powered off a separate connector to the neon tube, so you will be able to use it on a baybus/rheobus if you wish too. It also has a 3-4 pin pass through set up so you'll be able to add a fan monitoring wire to a motherboard header while powering the fan off a Molex connector. Although the extra one wire pass through was absent from the package, something I feel could have been included.

The neon tube is powered in the same way as the others, a small, neat inverter. This one has the added benefit of a PCI slot cover with built in switch for turning the Neon tube on and off. The little included plastic bag included the same Velcro strips to hold down the inverter, which is the same as for the other neon tubes except for being a light blue colour. Again the inverter could power an extra neon tube. You also get 4 standard self tapping screws and even a screw to hold the PCI backplate in place. Very thorough!

I'm not going to get into the UV reactive fan, it has the same specs as the one above. Is available in UV blue, green and red, with mesh braiding on the power cables to give it a very neat look.

The rounded neon tube is another very bright one. I'm once again impressed with both products and can't find any fault's.

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More pictures at the end for everything else, but as the fan can't go in the case I'll show these now. The CCFL rounded neon fan is very bright. As you can see from the third picture, the neon tube itself is UV reactive(being lit by the UV black neon tube). Both the fans have the same specifications, though obviously you can see the UV reactive one glowing a lot more here.

Tuluz S

The Tuluz series S is a 1.5M length of neon string. Available in blue, green and red. As you can see I have the green version. Again the packaging is nice and you can see exactly what you're going to be buying. The string itself has a small inverter, and a second output line. Like the other inverters, you'll be able to buy new lengths of the neon string on their own and add another to the other connector.

In-between the inverter and the actual glowing area of the string there is a length of connector wire that will allow you to place the inverter out of the way and not lose any of the lighted section of the string while being routed behind a motherboard, or hard drive cage. During installation, you won't find it's inflexible, but it is hard to get to stay in one place. Careful tying down along its length at various points will probably be required to get a really specific design done. Maybe even permanent attachment somehow. I did find it hard to make it keep a shape without properly attaching it. So I ended up just looping it around the window area so the level of light it puts out should be easy to capture.

Rounded Cables

The last thing we have is rounded IDE and floppy drive cables. They are available in black, yellow, silver and UV reactive. Available in 45CM in all styles and colours, and 90CM version's in IDE only.

I have the UV Reactive cables. They are quite flexible compared to some of the other rounded cables I have around here. Using them in a system I saw no problems with them letting the drives run at full speed.

They glow a yellow colour under UV light, and have the added affect of being slightly see-through. When glowing yellow the wires within appear as black lines and look pretty cool

Other than the looks they are no better or worse than any other rounded cable, and at £6 for the floppy cable and £9 for the 45CM IDE cable, they aren't very good value. If you want some quality UV reactive cables then grab a set of these. If you just need some plain rounded cables then these seem a little overpriced.

Again I'll show a few highlight pictures of the cables here, to try to highlight the luminance of the cables under UV light.

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The picture on the left is was taken just moments after the UV blacklight was held directly over the cables for several seconds. Within another 5-10 seconds I took the second photo. Nothing else changed here, just the "charge" (for want of a better word) has drained. The UV tube shown in the picture is resting alongside the end of a case side, the small overlap you get for screwing the case side down on any case is blocking most of the light going to the cables in these pictures.

Introduction

In Case Pictures