Installation

When adding components to the Sunbeam Acrylic HTPC case, the optical drives and front bay devices should be added with the HDD bays removed. The hard drives should be added to their bays while they are being assembled, and then they can be added after the 5.25" drives are installed. Here, the long, thin screwdriver Sunbeam provides comes in pretty handy. It easily reaches down between the HDD cages and the front panel, which is enough to tighten the two front screws. The rear two screws can be added after the cages are in place. Everything else goes normally with the screws provided by Sunbeam. In some cases normal screws would be too short, especially when trying to pass through the 1/4" thick acrylic panels.


Although the case looks completely clear, it is UV reactive. These two pictures were taken with an external black light shining on the case. An internal black light works well, too, but washed out the images a little.