Cold Cathode

[speedmike]

How Much Power do cold cathode lights take away from the power supply in a pc? I put two 4" cold cathodes in my iMac 333 and I believe they have a pisser of a powersupply at 80 watts or something. The two cathodes don't seem to bother anything but I want to try and fit maybe 2 more cathodes in it and I am wondering if that will take away too much power.

I like my computers to glow like the sun and or to keep my girlfriend awake when she comes to sleep over. I simply say " I can't turn those lights off", and she gets pissed because it is so bright. Well that was on mt gaming pc before I sold it ;-)

Cold cathode doesn't make that much heat so that shouldn't be a problem either right?

 

[trooper]

Yeah, The imac does have a puny 80 watt power supply, And from what i can gather (but it depends on the kit you are using) cold cathode tubes draw around 4 watts each. Are you running them through a power inverter ?.

Trooper

 

[c0ncept]

and or to keep my girlfriend awake when she comes to sleep over.

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I can think of many alternate ways of keeping my girlfriend awake when she stops over...

 

[speedmike]

Yeah it has a power inverter... I think I'll stop at two though. I just hate openning the damn thing up because I always forget to put something back on or forget to reattach something.

Thanks for your reply

I can think of many alternate ways of keeping my girlfriend awake when she stops over...

So can I

 

[Axeman]

Yeah, The imac does have a puny 80 watt power supply, And from what i can gather (but it depends on the kit you are using) cold cathode tubes draw around 4 watts each. Are you running them through a power inverter ?.

Trooper

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It's not puny if thats all it needs. Macs in general draw a lot less power than PCs, and the imacs with their lack of expansion never needed any more...