Project: Water Cooling Turbine

[Zephik]

This is really cool! +rep!

Are you going to leave the paint as is or are you going to give it a little more contrast? It looks great as is, but I think it would look pretty cool to have a darker black or something to set off the detail pieces on the turbine. Give it more depth I guess its called? Just a thought. ^_^

Looking great! Can't wait to see more updates!

[Spawn-Inc]

oh man that looks really sick +rep

are you going to cover or do anything with the tubing?

on a side note i fixed up the sketchup i made before.

[rendermandan]

are you going to cover or do anything with the tubing?

ummm Not sure what you mean?

[M!ST!CX]

OMG there is no words to describe awesomest of this turbine,truely......I want that turbine right now

[.Maleficus.]

Man, this is so fricking cool! After seeing this, I definitely want to build my own res when I get my watercooling stuff. +rep for sure!

[rendermandan]

Hey, my led's showed up from LSDiodes.com -Only one small problem. I didn't get my free Sticker. Booohooo Oh well. looks like tonight I can start to make the led light bar for the underside. Yippie

[Spawn-Inc]

i mean are you just going to leave the tubing clear or are you going to paint it or light it up?

[rendermandan]

well, my original intention was to leave it clear. I'm hopeing with all the led lighting I've got going on with the resevoir, and the "Fake fuel tank" that they will be lit with a soft blue glow. At least thats the idea.

[rendermandan]

Once again, here is the nightly update:

Tonight I decided to turn my attention to building the LED light bar for the "Fuel Tank". Here are the Leds and Resistors I got from LSDiodes.com

I started by cutting 2 strips and drilling small holes in them equally spaced for the leds.

Then I added a thin plastic spacer to act as an insulator between the wires.

Here it is with the led's in place.

and here is the negative side wired together.

Here is the positive side soldered together with the resistors.

Here is a test. They all light up. Excellent the third one from the right on the bottom seems like its not as bright as the others. I might have to replace that one.

I put it under the tube and put the translucent cover in place.
OH NO! it looks like ****! The led's have too great of a spot light effect and leave very distinct bright spots. I hate it!

Looks like I may be going back to the cold catholdes, they were a little bright, but atleast it was uniform light.

What to do.....?

[SgtM]

Frost/sand the tops of the LED's. It will diffuse the light, and will be more uniform.

::EDIT::

Great progress on this!