Awesome NEON alternative!

[papychulo82]

As already stated, very nice...i have been thinking of doing somethin like this, just never thought of using cold cathodes...and thanks to the OP for the lil step by step...pics would help out alot...even though its not really THAT hard to figure out

[LinX]

Really a nice hook-up you got there. I'd love to hook my car up like that with red lights but I don't feel that comfortable working with circuits yet. Doesn't seem to much of a hassle though.

[DilutedImage]

Please Please Please DO NOT replace your current fuses with a higher amperage rated fuse. The fuse is a circuit protection device, in the unfortunate case of an electrical overload, the weakest link (in this case a fuse) is what will burn up and not your wiring. The same reason they used fusible links. For fusible links a section of wire which was 4 sizes smaller than the wire of the circuit it was protecting was used. So that in case something happened, it would be the smaller wire that burned up and NOT your wiring harness. Everyone knows how car engineers work and like to hide wires under things, so just to change ONE wire you might have to rip apart half the car. I don't like doing the extra work for no reason, so i'd just leave the fuse alone.

As previously stated:

The wiring for the lights should be sufficient for the extra load though.

While fuses have replaced fusible links, we must also remember that many fuses are selected based on the components in the circuit. Is that the right way to select a fuse? No. But it is done all too often in automobiles. I am pretty confident that a higher-amperage fuse could be used in this case. Of course, that doesn't mean a 50 amp fuse should be thrown in there, but it should be safe to bump it up 5 amps if necessary. If you disagree, then please look up the load rating of those wires, and let us know.

[floored]

stupid question but do i cut the red/black adn splice them into the car wiring . or do i splice the allwhite wires and splice them into it

[DeathFromAbove]

who are the anime nerds that do this to PCs anyway?

[92CordDX]

cut the clips (the cpomputer power ones) and wire the black wire coming from the inverter to a commin ground and the red wire coming from the switch to a power source.

[ParoXoN]

Why are we inverting the power supply again? PC lights typically hook up to the 4pin IDE molex connectors which are 12V DC natively... Beyond maybe a little filter to clean the circuit of noise, I don't understand the point of an inverter...

[92CordDX]

Why are we inverting the power supply again? PC lights typically hook up to the 4pin IDE molex connectors which are 12V DC natively... Beyond maybe a little filter to clean the circuit of noise, I don't understand the point of an inverter...

The inverter boosts the voltage up to 120VAC

[lilbluecb7]

dude they look good im thinkin about sum for my car but i dont know what color

[92CordDX]

dude they look good im thinkin about sum for my car but i dont know what color

I'd say blue

[DilutedImage]

Why are we inverting the power supply again? PC lights typically hook up to the 4pin IDE molex connectors which are 12V DC natively... Beyond maybe a little filter to clean the circuit of noise, I don't understand the point of an inverter...

The PC lights typically come with an inverter also.

[92CordDX]

I'm going to my friends house tonight to put ome blue cathodes in his Impreza WRD Sti, so ill bring ym car along and get some shots

[TheNextEpisode]

I'm going to my friends house tonight to put ome blue cathodes in his Impreza WRD Sti, so ill bring ym car along and get some shots

that would be much appreciated

[Thomas_LX]

For me, this is one of those things where actually going out and doing it made it make more sense than planning it out before hand which is what I usually do...
The Molex connector is 12V and 5V the red is the 5Volt so you can cut that one. The reason you need the inverter is because a computer runs off 12V and the Cathode, according to the packaging, steps up the 12V to like 320V.
So.... Yeah.... there you go.

[d2privat11]

I'm going to my friends house tonight to put ome blue cathodes in his Impreza WRD Sti, so ill bring ym car along and get some shots

WRX*, god I want one of those badly.