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so basically here's the deal..

we buy these two sun ultra enterprise e15ks, which are kick-ass machines.. unfortunately, when we do power these things up, the light show is pretty unspectacular.. this is what the top display looks like, courtesy of our sunfire 6800:



pretty lame, sun.. you'd figure for $1.3mil each or whatever you'd get some lights or something whiz-bangy.. obviously, something must be done..


so it was decided that we should spend some time and a little amount of cash to spice things up a bit.. thanks to sun's engineering and recent breakthroughs in computer case mod technology, i present to you the most expensive case mod on the planet:

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staging the lights
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the targets - scalar 10k in the foreground with e15ks to the right
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the e15ks next to the scalar 10k
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two of the blue cold cathodes in place
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all of the blues in place
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red cathodes in place in door of scalar 10k
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closeup of upper cathode placement
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closeup of temporary wiring
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wiring of blue cathodes and swifty-nifty torque wrenches the e15ks come with
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red cathodes in the 10k
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reds on the tail end of the 10k
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boring router switchy things..
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greens in place!!
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another shot of greens done..
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full size shot..
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blues fired up for test run
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with the front doors open
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another..
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greens and blues on!
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green doors open
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someone opening the door with slow shutter speed
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i got the greens so bad..
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artistic overlap of lights on the floor
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it's alive!
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this is the one everyone wants for their desktop


rest assured, there's more to come as the days go on.. soon the 10k will be wired and all a-glow in red!