Couple of questions about cold cathode tubes & UV sensitive goodies

[Wolfchild]

I've had some led fans in a couple of my windowed cases for a while now but want some CC tubes.

A guy in a store told me "and just wait till you get some UV sensitive cables and fans...it's cool".
But he was just using regular CC tubes and didn't have an example.

My question is will all CC tubes make UV sensitive cables and the like glow, or do I have to
specifically have UV CC tubes?

 

[RedDwarf]

To get the best effect, you want to use UV CC. If it is a mid-tower case then you want at least two tubes.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: RedDwarf
To get the best effect, you want to use UV CC. If it is a mid-tower case then you want at least two tubes.

Yes - the ultraviolet emissions from UV CCFL tubes will cause UV reactive cabling to fluoresce. Regular CCFL tubes (red, green, blue, yellow, white, etc) will just illuminate the UV reactive things, but they won't light up brightly like they would with UV radiation.