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during a previous video covering the flow pro bars update and the new features
i mentioned that i relocated my light bars which were previously freestanding to the sides of my tv
to underneath my tv cabinet and to my surprise a good amount of you guys accommodate mts bar hack
signaling that you want to see more specific details on exactly how i ran the wires
and installed the light bars in the horizontal position which provides
the widest spread possible for a single pair of light bars you guys asked for this one so
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all right guys we're going to jump right in with this one so stay with me the very first thing that
you'll need to tackle if you decide to try out this flow pro bar hack is finding a work around
for the very short 7.5 inch usbc cable where the 5.5 foot dedicated cables for each of the bars
merge because for the cleanest look possible you want your control box to remain mounted
behind your tv clear out of sight the max cable distance between the bars is roughly 11 feet
but you want to reserve that length for spacing the bars out accordingly beneath your tv stand
so the solution is to extend that seven point inch wire using a usbc cable extension depending
on the distance that the cord will need to travel from your control box across raceway strips and
ultimately down your tv stand that extension cable length required will vary the longest single usb-c
extension cable that i was able to locate is 6.6 feet but after measuring i knew i'd require
more than six feet to make this work for me so i ended up going with a two pack from base sailor
which can support a max of 10 gigabytes per second which i knew would be really important in reducing
signal lag so as you can see i have the two 6.6 foot extension cables daisy chained together
to create a total length of 13.2 feet because this cable has to run a distance of 2.5 feet from the
control box mounted behind the tv down my echo gear raceway which measures two feet on its own
across a 4.5 tabletop delamu cable concealer and then finally down a second set of three foot
delamu cable concealers down the right side of my tv cabinet that is a total distance of 12 feet
from where the control box and the flow pro light bars themselves are now located because i have a
floating tv cabinet running the extension cable down the right side of the tv stand was absolutely
necessary for me without drilling any holes but if you have clearance behind your tv stand i don't
see why you couldn't run the cable and the raceway strip right down the back now i've mentioned
these dalamu cable concealers before in a previous video but for those newcomers I 100 percent recommend them
because of their small footprint and because they come in four different colors gray black brown and
white so you can pick the color that makes the most sense for your particular setup once you
have the usbc extension cable secured along the path that you choose it's time to mount the light
bars themselves instinctively i initially assumed that i would simply use the included tv mounting
brackets to mount the bars beneath the tv cabinet but after experimenting with the bars aiming
straight down i quickly realized that i wasn't getting the light spread that i was hoping for
aiming the bar straight down at the ground made the light stream much more concentrated and
piercing which ultimately started to feel much more distracting than anything else and that's
when i decided to try horizontally mounting the bars with the light source firing straight back at
the wall to achieve a softer glow as the bars are designed to do i experimented first using painters
tape placing the bars in various areas underneath the tv cabinet i tried placing the bars close
together towards the center of the cabinet i tried positioning the bars closer to the wall and then
moving them further back before initially settling on placing the bars even further apart near the
corners of my entertainment center to expand the light out as far as possible now i actually kept
the bars in this expanded position for several weeks and i even uploaded a quick showcase
but i ultimately decided to place the bars a little bit closer together to shrink that gap
in between measuring to obtain the precise center point for each half of my tv cabinet 10 inches
back from the wall because i found that pulling the bars back too far from the wall caused the
light to appear a lot more faint because the light has to travel further to hit the wall before the
wall bounces the light back at you once 100 sure that i was happy with the position of the bars
i then used industrial strength velcro to attach them underneath for a more permanent solution
i decided to use velcro versus double-sided tape to give me the option to remove the bars easily
for any reason down the road these vehicle strips come in both white as well as black
and the only reason that i didn't match things up is because i ran out of the black version
you'll also notice that my bars are heavily wrapped in black electric tape this is to
protect them from my killer robot jarvis you see jarvis is notorious for chewing up cables and
scratching up furniture around the studio and if i didn't know any better i say he enjoys it if you
have not already you guys should really check out this netflix show called love death plus robots
season 2 episode 1 is hilarious and totally struck a chord when it comes to robot vacuums
alright guys before we take a closer look at the cable management beneath my tv cabinet
sit back and enjoy the live demonstration showcasing the immersion 2.0 and the floor
pro bars now placed at the center points beneath my tv cabinet let's get to it foreign
uh all right guys we're at the home stretch here once you're 100 happy with the position
of the bars and everything is looking good the only thing left to do is cable management i use
the very same delamu cable raceways to clean things up underneath the cabinet lining up
each subsequent panel with the next to photo the usbc cable through to maintain the clean floating
appearance of my tv cabinet and of course this stops jarvis from chewing them all up as well
honestly i have no pets in my home at all right now but i might as well with this unpredictable
machine now for any excess cable be it from the bars or from the usb-c extension i simply use
3m adhesive clips where appropriate and that's really the extent of it guys once that's all
set put on your favorite video game movie or tv show and enjoy the fruits of your labor
the biggest concern that i had when going into this project was signal delay
given the extra distance that the signal has to travel from the control box and back but
i'm happy to let you guys know that with this 10 gigabytes per second cable to the
naked eye signal loss is so minimal that i hardly notice it at all as compared to the immersion 2.0
and last but not least guys you will unfortunately require two cameras for this dual gobi immersion
setup i actually tried using a usb c hub splitter a couple of weeks back to eliminate one of the
cameras out of the equation to no avail and it is more than likely that new hardware will
be required down the road in order to make this happen well that about wraps things up for this
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