Matrix Orbital Corp

I recently purchased the Matrix Orbital internal USB display, model 212. My primary goal in purchasing this was to move my cold cathode controls to the front of the system, rather than the ill-placed switch on the back.

My cold cathodes are two tubes, attached to a plastic box which I believe is the power inverter. That box extends into a standard 4 pin molex, such as you would plug into a CD ROM drive for power.

Is there a way to hook this cathode to the Orbital? I see power slots on the orbital, but they seem designated for floppy drive-style power or for fan power. Is there a converter to take floppy style power to CD rom style power, and is it safe?

And could I hook up 2 of these dual cold cathodes without blowing out the orbital?

Thanks for your help!

you would hook the inverter power lines up the High Power GPOs...what revision number is on the back of your unit?

Ver 1.0- you would need some motherboard pin header style plugs and splice them onto the intver power cables. The floppy power plug MUST be on the unit for it to drive 12V, only use GPOs 4, 5, o5 6 (refer to your documentation PDF, but I think they are always the lower 3 above the bottom jumper).

Ver 1.4- less familiar with this one, but it has Fan-style plugs on it instead. Very similar otherwise-get the floppy power plug on for 12V supply, and plug your inverter into it.

Note: most of us only run ONE Dual-tube inverter on each GPO. so I have 6 CCFls on mine:dual tube on GPO 4, dual tube on GPO 5, and dual tube on GPO 6.