PSU cable mangament easy first time mod

[agrocm]

hi all this will be my first tutorial ill be using come uv reactive sheathing and heat shrink with some new uv reactive molex plugs to tidy up my messy wiring. also adding 3 80mm uv fans to my uv case.
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this is my case at the moment im awaiting parts to come from many suppliers
heres a list of wat i have on order

2 meters of red and 2 meters of yellow 11mm/6mm sheathing and 1 meter of green 16/10 mm sheath i did order a little to much but least i have some spare i may also sell this psu when im done if anyone likes it as ill be doing another tutorial on making modular PSU
50 male and 50 female molex pins as i will be shortening some cables a removale tool for the pins
3 x 80 mm fans uv one for the top front and rear of my case
10 green uv male molex plugs
10 uv blue female molex plugs
and a uv reactive blue powersupply connector kit
plus some red heat shrink
my plan is to power the top fan my dvd drive and the front fan off one 12v line and the 2 drives and rear fan off another sheathed in red
the power to mother board via 24 pin plug will be using the larger green sheathing and the cpu fan and other 4 pin mother board connector will be in yellow along with the wires which go to the power and reset buttons on the front and the dvd drive sound cable back to the mother board. i ordered it all on thursday and as it is now the weekend in australia i wont get it all till at least monday :mad: im going to upgarde to sata drives soon to elimate the old ide calbes so this mod to the psu is only a temp thing as ill need to get a bigger PSU when i get the sata drives and my dream mother board
EVGA 680i SLI Motherboard 122-CK-NF68-A1
linky (http://www.pccasegear.com/prod4589.htm)

[agrocm]

I couldnt get not having parts stop me from working today its raining out side and have nothing better to do so i thought id start by shortening the cpu fan cable as it is miles to long when the fan plug is like 2 inches away excuse the pictures my cam isnt so good on close up shots i need to work out how to use the macro feauture.

all i did was use some tape to measure where id need the plug to end and cut the wires and striped the insulation back on both ends put some heat shrink on and soldered the wires back together and applied some heat i know its not a huge thing and no one would eva notice i did anything to it but hey its a start to making it look less messy

fan removed from cpu
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fan with longgggggggggg cable on it
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measured where the plug needed to be
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wires cut and soldered together
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fan installed back in computer turned on and it still worked 8)
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[agrocm]

good news uv sheathing turned up today but the molex plugs and heat shrink havent so i couldnt do all that much i did manage to sheath the 4 pin plug o the mother board. when i get teh uv plugs and some big heatshrink ill take the plug off put heat shrink on and replace the new plug.
1. dissconnected all the psu cables
2. marked which wire goes where on the plug and got a rough length for the plug as i shortened the cable.
3. removed psu from computer and took cover off separated the wires i need from the bundle of wires
4. removed the plug and cut cables to size made a mistake here and soldered all cables in teh one area so i have a big buldge in one part of it but i learnt from my mistake and have been showed how to offset them now.
5. cut some sheath to size and sliped it on replaced plug and put a cable tie close to the plug and slowly worked the cable tightly to the end inside the psu and plut another cable tie inside (i used fluro yellow one near the plug to make it look good till i get heathshrink and plan jane black one inside the psu).
NOTE on the pcb inside i noticed a spot for another fan i have a 80 mm fan i test fitted about the heat sink and fits perfect so ill be putting that in some time during this tut.
also had to use my camera phone as old bloke had the good camera the close up pics are blurry.
tell me what u think guys
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[cured]

Pics are a lil fuzzy, but good job. All my cables are managed. But there in one big clump

[agrocm]

Pics are a lil fuzzy, but good job. All my cables are managed. But there in one big clump

that was taken with my phone camera ill get the good camera and do some update shots

[agrocm]

just another update i installed another fan im my psu today it was my first time usen a dremel btw so its not round and not to good looking but i have ordered a new fan grill and i think ill paint her up now also i received the new uv molex plugs and fans and new pins today so im about to go back out and start working again
tell me what u think so far guys
wasnt to hard i just marked out where i wanted it drill 4 holes and centered them holes tryed to use a hole saw but it was no good had to try my luck at the dremel. than wired her up put some heat shrink on and removed all the stickers ready to paint after i finished sheathing.
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[agrocm]

received my sheathing and bit today it was missing the heat shrink i ordered so i had to go buy some more. i ordered i fan grill jsut a plane one to cover that hole i cut but i will be trying to make it as round as possible. anyway i have finished the sheathing except the main 20 pin to the motherboard it was getting late and i need to put a post up.
1 shorten cables to length
2 put sheathing on and cable tied off in psu sliped on some heat shrink over sheath
3 wired up plugs usen the new pins i got and uv plugs
4 tightened sheath but pulling slack out than sliped heat shrink over the end of sheath and over the cables going into the plug, used a hair dryer to shrink it down. repeated the same process for all plugs, when i get some larger heat shrink ill take the plugs off where two cables joina nd put it over both plugs so they are nice and neat. i also got 3 uv fans today ill be sheathing them and plutting uv male plugs on them tonight or tomorrow arvo perhaps.
tell me what you all think of the job so far any comments ? btw is it possible this is in the wrong spot or is no one showing any interest .
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[Spawn-Inc]

looks great, not sure i would want all those colours, but thats just me :).

+rep for the nice work though.

[agrocm]

looks great, not sure i would want all those colours, but thats just me :).

+rep for the nice work though.

yeah it was more of experience thing for now i would have had blue and green sheath but yeh i still have to get the motherboard power down and fix up the psu hole maybe get some led bue fans for the psu than i got some fluro green paint and a fan grill to come than ill be selling it
thanks for the rep btw thats my first eva rep point :)

[agrocm]

one more update for the day i sheathed all teh new fans i got and (roughly) put them in i didnt have any bolts so i used skewers to get the general idea tell me what u think.
the fans werent very hard at all just cut to lengthput some sheath on and heat shrink the end near the fan first put some new molex pins on and put the new connector on and heat shrink over that end
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[Commando]

Cool. Good job. Your case is wildly bright.

[agrocm]

Cool. Good job. Your case is wildly bright.

thanks commando just a note the uv light isnt always on lol i cant stand it sometimes. imagine if i eva got water cooling with uv die hahah:banana:
do u think the psu would eva sell ? say ebay or somthing i wouldnt mind trying to sell it for a thermal take modular. btw just a note my core temps have droped down to a min of 27 degrees and max 33 degrees use to be around 40 so thats a bonus to cheers mate

[cured]

what are those colour cables? they look awsome

[The boy 4rm oz]

UV spaghetti lol. Looks good so far, for that hole for the fan you should have used a compass to make a round circle and then used the cutting tool on your Dremel to gently follow the line then finish up with the grinding tool. You would have a perfect circle.

[agrocm]

UV spaghetti lol. Looks good so far, for that hole for the fan you should have used a compass to make a round circle and then used the cutting tool on your Dremel to gently follow the line then finish up with the grinding tool. You would have a perfect circle.

yeah i really rushed it i will fix it up this arvo than prep it to paint i have to get new bolts for it to instead of the old brass ones thats all i had.

[agrocm]

what are those colour cables? they look awsome

its just cable sheathing thats uv reactive. and some uv reactive plugs

[agrocm]

not pics today i fixed to hole in my psu to a decent standard for me anyway sanded the cover did a coat of industrial primer sanded back and hit with a coat of a real deep bright green if that makes sence its dark shade but very bright i only did this coat on teh top and sides havent done inside yet im thinking i will have to do some kind of lighting in side now some green leds or such not sure yet any ideas?

[agrocm]

i did manage to get a couple of pics the first ones blurry as i was testing the super macro and forgot to turn it off but the close up of the paint is clear u can see my finger prints and **** lol i thought the paint looked good till i seen teh picture anyway i wet sanded it still has 3 coats to go and a clear i aint going to do much inside one coat should be fin maybe a light sand and a clear to protect it still have to take all the gear out of my psu and sand and paint the bottom section i also ordered 400 leds in bulk lol 100 green 100 red 100 blue and 100 white for mods to come only cost me 1 cent a led delivered they are 50 mA ones 5 mm
also did aqua mark test lol i got well 9971:banana: hahahah yeah im in need of a new computer
tell me what u think
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[The boy 4rm oz]

Very bright, fits with the UV well.

[agrocm]

Very bright, fits with the UV well.
yeah should do i hope all this is just a learning curve i really wanna sell it and buy a thermaltake modular and a new board and ram aand cpu with sli geforce 7900s

[si-skyline]

hehe reminds me of a rave with all the bright colours :P

[NightrainSrt4]

Looks good. I like it. Looks like a bag of Skittles tried to mate with your pc. Looks different. I like it.