RGB LED EVERYTHING!!
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@MrL I just wish there was some consistency and common sense. Why do I have to jump through hoops to coordinate and pick up a package with a $12 book because it was signature required and I wasn't home, but they'll happily forge a signature and leave a box with $4000 worth of Duramax fuel injectors on my outdoor patio for all to see?
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@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@MrL I just wish there was some consistency and common sense.
Wrong planet, sorry.
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@TimeBandit the box was waiting for me in front of my apartment door
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@mott555 TBF, I wouldn't know what do with those Duramax fuel injectors. The book on the other hand...
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TL;DW: the SSD has seventy-five RGB LEDs inside. When they are on, they generate so much heat that the controller thermal throttles, completely killing the transfer rate.
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@Zerosquare said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
When they are on, they generate so much heat that the controller thermal throttles, completely killing the transfer rate.
Just water-cool the LEDs
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He actually tries that in the video. Spoiler: it doesn't work.
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@Zerosquare I wrote it before fully watching the video.
I was trolling, not expecting him to actually do it
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@TimeBandit said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Zerosquare I wrote it before fully watching the video.
I was trolling, not expecting him to actually do it
It's JaysTwoCents, between him and Linus everything gets tried...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
between him and Linus everything gets tried
Except he's considerably less annoying.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
between him and Linus everything gets tried
Except he's considerably less annoying.
True.
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@levicki At that point, you're better off coating everything in fluorescent paint and hanging a black light nearby.
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@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
coating everything in fluorescent paint and hanging a black light nearby.
As an addition to leds, sure, good idea.
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You could also go the other route and not cool your excessive quantities of LEDs. For that matter, you could just not cool anything in the computer. If you do it right, you'll get a nice spectrum of black-body emission to complement the LED glow.
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@MrL said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
coating everything in fluorescent paint and hanging a black light nearby.
As an addition to leds, sure, good idea.
You don't understand, it black light LEDs!
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@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
You could also go the other route and not cool your excessive quantities of LEDs. For that matter, you could just not cool anything in the computer. If you do it right, you'll get a nice spectrum of black-body emission to complement the LED glow.
I'd like to point out that to get a visible amount of black-body emission you pretty much have to get the metal casing a good part of the way towards the melting point?
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@Onyx said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@MrL said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
coating everything in fluorescent paint and hanging a black light nearby.
As an addition to leds, sure, good idea.
You don't understand, it black light LEDs!
Continuing my previous line of thought, any LED should glow in the ultraviolet range if you get it hot enough.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
nasty flickering which, to my surprise, many people don't even see
I think that depends on exactly how nerves are connected up (I don't know enough about the visual pathway to say where that would be); while there are patterns that can detect very high speed flickering, they're rare as there's never been a great evolutionary advantage to having them. OTOH, flickering at 10 Hz is more visible to all.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
For some reason, I seem to be cursed to notice flicker of up to 240 Hz frequency. For me, all OLED screens on premium phones suck donkey dick because they have PWM brightness regulation when you drop brightness below 25% which means reading in bed with lights out is out of the question with OLED display for me.
I just set my eyes to persistance-emulation at 27Hz. Solves most problems.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
For me, all OLED screens on premium phones suck donkey dick because they have PWM brightness regulation when you drop brightness below 25% which means reading in bed with lights out is out of the question with OLED display for me.
I've noticed the change in how the brightness responds above and below around 25% on my tablet but didn't know that's what was causing it.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Blue LEDs are already emitting a good chunk of UV radiation and are bad to your eyes yet they are on every piece of tech today.
Furthermore, because there is no such thing as high-power white LED, they use blue near UV light LEDs to excite phosphorus coating to get white color. How much of that UV is leaking into your retina and damaging your vision depends on the quality of the LEDs. People are replacing all their house lights with cheap ass chinese LED lamps without having a clue about the spectrum they are emitting, not to mention some of them have nasty flickering which, to my surprise, many people don't even see.Phosphor re-emission is the dominant way of producing white-light with LEDs, but the pump wavelength is typically centered on 450nm with a spectral width of ~20nm. There is essentially no energy below 400nm which is what the top end of 'UV' is generally taken as.
All the blue LEDs I'm familiar with are above UV too, you have to use a separate technology if you want to get into the UV, and it's less efficient too.There is the 'blue light hazard' which is separate from UV, and we have a great standard for photobiological safety here in the EU that defines a safe limit for blue light of 2 mW/klm in general-purpose lighting. I've never personally heard of any white LED thing that failed this, and imports do get tested.
I was much more worried when CFLs were common, I'd see lots of reports of them testing outside the limits for actinic UV.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Can we trust Chinese to respect that if they put excessive amount of toxic shit in children's toys? Also, many countries in Central Europe (i.e. not part of EU) sadly don't have such extensive product testing and alerting.
Sure, we're a bit lucky here because in this case it would make their products cost more and have less performance to use shorter-wave pump light. The common blue LED process tech (InGaN) has a fundamental limit of about 390nm, so that would be barely UV but the efficiency really starts to suck down there. The current phosphors aren't designed for that either, so you'd just have a doubly-rubbish white LED.
There are other process technologies around that make good UV LEDs but they cost far more. I think that if someone came up with a really performant phosphor that needed actinic pump-light then we might have a problem. This is an active area of research, so maybe one day it might be an issue.
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Today's installment to this topic would actually be pretty cool if it merely changed colors without emitting light. But sadly, the front panel glows.
In Win 309 Case Arrives With 144 Front Panel Addressable RGB LEDs
In Win launches new mid-tower 309 case featuring a crazy front panel illuminated by 144 addressable RGB LEDs.
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@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
crazy front panel
Crazy being the operative word — bat-shit crazy.
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@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
if it merely changed colors without emitting light.
I'm not sure how you would expect that to be, unless using e-ink?
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@remi Maybe based on something old-school like a split flap display?
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@cvi That would be fun, especially with the noise those things made when changing...
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@remi said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
I'm not sure how you would expect that to be, unless using e-ink?
A purely reflective LCD would work as well, like the one on the original Game Boy Advance.
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@levicki I'm not sure if a resolution of 8 x 18 is really enough for something like that...
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@remi said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
if it merely changed colors without emitting light.
I'm not sure how you would expect that to be, unless using e-ink?
I don't care how it works. It would still be cool.
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@remi said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
if it merely changed colors without emitting light.
I'm not sure how you would expect that to be, unless using e-ink?
That would be a decent low-power way to do it, or maybe LCD/TFT without a backlight.
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@hungrier said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
LCD/TFT without a backlight.
Tricky. I had the brillant idea of taking an LCD monitor with a weak backlight, disabling the backlight, and putting the brightest white paper I could find behind the screen, thinking I could make an ambient-light display to hang on the wall and show artwork or something. But the LCD layer passes so little light that it simply appeared black even when I sent a light-colored image to it.
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@mott555 I meant something like the GBA, as someone else mentioned, where it was designed to work without its own backlight.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@levicki I'm not sure if a resolution of 8 x 18 is really enough for something like that...
It is if you have very good imagination...
I'm not sure anything about that idea can be described as "very good."
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Today's installment to this topic would actually be pretty cool if it merely changed colors without emitting light. But sadly, the front panel glows.
Oooh, I am totally buying that and making it display writhing, nude, Twi'lek dancer!
Bringing back the pixel-porn, eh?
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@Luhmann said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Bringing back the pixel-porn
was it ever gone?
What with the advent of 4K and all, people really tried to hide it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
What with the advent of 4K and all, people really tried to hide it.
It's just that the pixels are really small now.
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@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
I got some RAM sticks with those new RGBA LEDs, but I can't see where did I put them.
Now, we have an ARGB power supply! (I can't find a definition of what they mean by "ARGB" but I assume they didn't break the laws of physics and add a functional alpha channel that makes the item go invisible.)
Probably related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Stalker
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Listen, I'm going to explain the question using science, ok?
So when the power comes in from the walls, it's AC, which sort of wobbles like this: /\/\/\/\/. What the power supply does, as you know, is converts it to DC, which does not (but kills elephants, so be careful with it, class). And it does it through something called rectifier, which is named that way, because we're serious about this. Anyway, it puts all the positive energy into positive power (remember to spend it on positive thoughts) and flips around the rest (like woosaah), so it's again positive (innit tecknology wonderful). But the ARGB power supply just takes some of that negative energy and converts it to reverse light, which can't be seen.
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@mott555 Why the fuck not have an actual LCD.
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LAN party? It's 2019, games no longer have a LAN mode. And with voice chat, you don't have to worry the person you're insulting will kick your ass IRL
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@levicki:
Petit problème… Ce service n'est pas encore disponible pour votre navigateur, votre appareil et/ou votre position.
Translation:
There's a problem... This service is not yet available for your browser, your device and/or your location.
So, I rest my case!
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Zerosquare said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
LAN party? It's 2019, games no longer have a LAN mode. And with voice chat, you don't have to worry the person you're insulting will kick your ass IRL
Hmmm indeed!
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I have sinned and am going to make my next computer have RGB with LED strips. As all highend parts already got obnoxious RGB lighting may as well complete the look and stick some RGB strips in the case too. Probably wont go for RGB fans, though. But I can make the insides glow in pretty colors at least.
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@Atazhaia said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
But I can make the insides glow in pretty colors at least.
Can you make it glow black? That'd be neat.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
I use Google.com forced to no country redirect and I am not logged in and I set my location as United States so maybe that's why it doesn't work for you and others?
I was in a fresh incognito window. Try again?
Edit: Navigating around back to the Google homepage, and trying by hand instead of by link, I literally have no idea how @levicki arrived at the screen he did.
Literally nothing I try gets me to that screen, not even
@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
You can always just search for "LAN party events" and get the list that way.
see below result of performing said search:
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@Atazhaia said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
But I can make the insides glow in pretty colors at least.
We probably all tried this as a kid, but I’m sure the lights in my fridge go off when you close the door.
Not sure why lighting the inside should be more useful here.
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@topspin My new case has glass sides and comes with a fan/RGB/temperature hub already built-in. So, yeah...
instead.
