Hue+

[Wydz]

close please

[Curufinwe_wins]

5 minutes ago, Wydz said:

Has anyone ever used this or have one currently?

 

Could give me some insight on it or feedback about it?

 

Currently considering this or cablemod led's

 

thanks

I have it, looks great the way I have it mounted. Works great.  Color changes are easy to use, lights are on point. 

 

Just expensive as balls.

[Wydz]

1 minute ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

I have it, looks great the way I have it mounted. Works great.  Color changes are easy to use, lights are on point. 

 

Just expensive as balls.

Well I was considering 4 Cablemod strips which is $80 or the Hue+ + Extension kit which would be ~$85 (Kit comes with 3 + buy 1 extra)

[Curufinwe_wins]

6 minutes ago, Wydz said:

Well I was considering 4 Cablemod strips which is $80 or the Hue+ + Extension kit which would be ~$85 (Kit comes with 3 + buy 1 extra)

Oh.. For the same price the Hue+ is vastly superior imho. Software control>>>simple remote control

 

 

Some really crappy (sorry but HTC m8 problems man) pictures of my pc running with them. 

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, Wydz said:

Well I was considering 4 Cablemod strips which is $80 or the Hue+ + Extension kit which would be ~$85 (Kit comes with 3 + buy 1 extra)

you dont need four strips

two is already more than enough for a full tower case

[Wydz]

6 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

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[Curufinwe_wins]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

you dont need four strips

two is already more than enough for a full tower case

Idk how long the cablemod strips are (only seen them in demo's), but 3 of the NZXT variants are what I consider bare minimum (for a wrapping bottom and lighted top effect).

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

Idk how long the cablemod strips are (only seen them in demo's), but 3 of the NZXT variants are what I consider bare minimum (for a wrapping bottom and lighted top effect).

thats because they're tiny

regular cablemod, darkside, bitfenix strips are 15LED 30cm standard

and you almost always want a controller to be able to dim them because they are extremely bright

[Curufinwe_wins]

9 minutes ago, Enderman said:

thats because they're tiny

regular cablemod, darkside, bitfenix strips are 15LED 30cm standard

and you almost always want a controller to be able to dim them because they are extremely bright

15 LED? Looks like the NZXT ones are 10 LED 30 cm. So I guess that makes sense. Same total LEDs for 3 Hue+ and 2 of the others (although light density is much higher for better or worse.)

 

Software control does about the same thing, although the main thing is I don't think anyone really likes the harsh blue white stock renditions from all these LEDs, so I am running mine at #61592A (feel free to google the color), which is significantly dimmed and is a sort of silver-gold hue (I quite like the effect it has on the red/silver/black of my system).

 

Just did a bit of tinkering, and #FFE75C looks to be the 100% brightness equivalent color.

[Enderman]

8 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

15 LED? Looks like the NZXT ones are 10 LED 30 cm. So I guess that makes sense. Same total LEDs for 3 Hue+ and 2 of the others (although light density is much higher for better or worse.)

 

Software control does about the same thing, although the main thing is I don't think anyone really likes the harsh blue white stock renditions from all these LEDs, so I am running mine at #61592A (feel free to google the color), which is significantly dimmed and is a sort of silver-gold hue (I quite like the effect it has on the red/silver/black of my system).

 

Just did a bit of tinkering, and #FFE75C looks to be the 100% brightness equivalent color.

also the hue+ uses 5v led strips

 

this is the hue+

 

this is a single bitfenix strip

[Curufinwe_wins]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

also the hue+ uses 5v led strips

 

this is the hue+

 

 

this is a single bitfenix strip

 

Images have wildly different ISO's but that is a good point I honestly had no idea about.

[Enderman]

7 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

Images have wildly different ISO's but that is a good point I honestly had no idea about.

well I had both a hue (2m LED strip) and two bitfenix 30cm strips, and I can tell you that the bitfenix strips were far brighter than the hue, and at full brightness did look exactly like the second image (in a mid tower case)

[Curufinwe_wins]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

well I had both a hue (2m LED strip) and two bitfenix 30cm strips, and I can tell you that the bitfenix strips were far brighter than the hue, and at full brightness did look exactly like the second image (in a mid tower case)

I can definitely believe that... 2/3 the LEDs at half the voltage.

[AddonCustoms]

13 hours ago, Enderman said:

regular cablemod, darkside, bitfenix strips are 15LED 30cm standard

Darkside uses the old/smaller 3528 led chips and has 27 (i think) leds per strip, cablemod and bitfenix use 5050 led chips (basically 3x 3528 chips in 1) and they have 15 leds per strip.
 

 

13 hours ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

15 LED? Looks like the NZXT ones are 10 LED 30 cm. So I guess that makes sense. Same total LEDs for 3 Hue+ and 2 of the others (although light density is much higher for better or worse.)

NZXT Hue+ uses 5050 led chips but also has a small controller chip for each led chip, and yes they have 10 leds on a 30cm strip.


The NZXT 1m / 2m sleeved leds is one of the worst products I have seen, creates extremely bad patchy lighting.


The Hue+ is a great product, but the pricing + amount of leds per strip + amount of total LED strips it can use is a let down.

[Curufinwe_wins]

52 minutes ago, AddonCustoms said:

The Hue+ is a great product, but the pricing + amount of leds per strip + amount of total LED strips it can use is a let down.

Yea, totally agree there, (see below).

15 hours ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

I have it, looks great the way I have it mounted. Works great.  Color changes are easy to use, lights are on point. 

 

Just expensive as balls.