Spire Cold Cathode Review @ CyberCPU

"This kit was your average CCFL kit. I loved the wiring harness but the CCFL tube itself looked cheap because of the florescent being loose inside instead of stationary. Even though I didn't like the CCFL itself I would recommend this kit just because of the wiring harness."
The crappy thing about cold cathode tubes is that the quality and color rendering vary so much you can never tell exactly what you are going to get. Case in point, for the AntecMod project I bought a high quality cathode from PC Mods. The color rendering was great, instantly turned on, and was super bright.

Fast forward to a few months ago while at CompUSA I noticed a PC Toys dual light cold cathode kit and decided to buy it. When I got home I compared the two lights to each other. The one from PC Mods was brighter and more vivid whereas the PC Toys kit was very dull, orange'ish in color and took a good 5 minutes to warm up enough to resemble anything close to bright.

Needless to say be careful what you buy and stay away from the PC Toys CCL kits, they uber suxX0r.

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