Silly and pointless

[[al]]

Hey guys,

So having just recently got hold of a Trace Elliot combo (thanks again, Ray !), I realised that in order to properly fulfill my teenage dreams it had to have the UV light business going on, and since there's no room in a combo to stick a trace black light unit I decided that I'd have to work something out from scratch, and so was the 7215 UV mod project born...

Some £10 and a few days later I'd finally got all the bits I needed and put it all together, and I'm quite chuffed with the result.
Since I'm new around here I thought this is as good a reason as any to chirp up and say something, so here it is - the final result:

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If anyone else is mad enough to want to do this to their amp too let me know and I'll spill the beans on what I did

[budget bassist]

That looks awesome

[lemmywinks]

I'm intruiged! Go on, tell us!

[ardi100]

Wicked!!

[Stingray5]

Nice! Could you do the same in green?

[Tait]

[quote name='Stingray5' post='338845' date='Nov 27 2008, 07:32 PM']Nice! Could you do the same in green?[/quote]

couldn't with UV, dunno about any other kinds of lighting.

anyway, that looks amazing mate, fancy telling us how you did it?

[tombboy]

£10.00 spent.... sweet.
Looks great...........
Does it sound any better?






























Sorry....... I'm hacking on yer! If it floats yer boat good luck to yer!
And you'll probably play better through pride!

Edited November 27, 2008 by tombboy

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Can I have it back!?
(only kidding!) looks awesome

[Jarhead]

Looks awesome man. I didn't think Trace Elliots could look any cooler, but you have proved me very wrong
Zach

[[al]]

Thanks, guys !

So all I did was get a 15" UV Cold Cathode fluorescent light off fleabay for £7 or so, and a length of 6mmx1mm clear acrylic tube (£1 also from fleabay), stripped off the heat-shrink on the CCFL and put the light inside the acrylic tube, then I put a layer of black tape along one side of the tube so the UV only hits the amp face and used some small velcro pads to fix the tube to the cab, then opened up the head and mounted the CCFL inverter and a 12v PSU inside, tapped mains off the input socket and ran it to the 12v PSU (I didn't want to use any of the smoothed power rails in the amp in case I introduced noise back in, as it is it should be fine I think given it's upstream of everything...

And that's it, Robert's your mothers brother !

[quote name='Stingray5' post='338845' date='Nov 27 2008, 07:32 PM']Nice! Could you do the same in green?[/quote]

Certainly !
You can get the CCFLs in [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Dual-12-Green-Cold-Cathode-Tubes-Interior-Neons_W0QQitemZ230301128377QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item230301128377&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1300|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]Green[/url], [url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=cold+cathode&_sacat=See-All-Categories"]Blue[/url], [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Dual-12-UV-Cold-Cathode-Tubes-Interior-Neons_W0QQitemZ330274820250QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item330274820250&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1300|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]Purple[/url], [url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=cold+cathode&_sacat=See-All-Categories"]UV[/url], [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DUAL-30cm-WHITE-COLD-CATHODE-NEONS_W0QQitemZ260318416475QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopComponents_RL?hash=item260318416475&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1300|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]White[/url] and [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Dual-12-Red-Cold-Cathode-Tubes-Interior-Neons_W0QQitemZ330281583545QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item330281583545&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1300|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]Red[/url]


[quote name='tombboy' post='338888' date='Nov 27 2008, 08:25 PM']Does it sound any better? [/quote]

Hell yeah: I just found out that it goes up to 11 now - couldn't see the number before in 'regular' light

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' post='338904' date='Nov 27 2008, 08:49 PM']Can I have it back!? [/quote]

Nope but you're more than welcome to come 'round and play on it whenever you like

[bluesparky]

I always wanted the old Trace Elliot head with the UV, it was the coolest thing in the world!
Nice job.

[Merton]

Nice!

[stingrayfan]

[quote name='[al]' post='338926' date='Nov 27 2008, 09:17 PM']....stripped off the heat-shrink on the CCFL.....[/quote]
You've lost me!

Looks cool though - would love the UV effect on my stuff. Perhaps you could offer this as a service to us Trace users?

Edited December 5, 2008 by stingrayfan