Configured correctly, a UV LED emitter can be a useful tool. This puppy lights up scorpions >50' over 120 degree beam spread.Used in conjunction with a glass container it will sterilize water and keep a 19 liter jug absolutely sterile with 10 minutes per week applications. Sterilize dishes, clothing, damp bath towels avoiding musty odors. I let it work in the bathroom re-positioning it every 10 minutes and no more marine musty odor. Not even 3X week chlorine bleach scrubbing could do that.Needs @ 32.0vdc constant current and appropriate heat sinking. Eye protection mandatory. Could be used in a mirrored chamber to utterly sterilize 1000 cfm airflow for sickrooms.I tried but couldn't resist. Being nailed repeatedly by Arizona Bark Scorpions lowered my resistance to purchasing this chip for thirty dollars.

that's a beastly LED!395nm is a bit low in the spectrum for ionizing radiation, it's more in the dental blue / royal blue spectra AKA "black light". I'm sure it works great for lighting up scorpions, white clothing and posters from the 60s :)germicidal led are hard to come by, getting such a narrow bandgap (100-250nm) is tricky in conventional semiconductors, so they use more exotic stuff and that means $$$$cheapest way to sterilize water on a budget is with a germicidal fluorescent bulb. made from special glass that does not block the short-wave UV. Put it straight into the fresh tank and it'll kill cooties day and night, and keep the tank from freezing :)Ultraviolet radiation

It makes up for wimpy low NM with butt-kick wattage. Had a gnarly planter outside with fungawebbing galore. Turned this baby on it and 15 minutes later Dracula meets Kimchi.IMHO O3 is the strongest sterilizer of them all. They are bottling oxonated water down here capping it and guaranteeing sterility for a year.But I purchased "The Monster" for scorpion hunting inside and outside the house. We'll have Saturday games. Kids earn 5 pesos each scorpion they point out. Chickens go bezerk over them. Like filet mignon with sticker. They peck so fast they don't get pronged.Later the chip gets aimed at a white exterior wall and the geckos gorge until they fall off the wall.I much appreciate the sterilizationb heads-up.

Mex, you have such unusual hobbies :B.Also, I hope the prolific posts mean that you are feeling energetic?!

Naio wrote:Mex, you have such unusual hobbies :B.Also, I hope the prolific posts mean that you are feeling energetic?!Doesnt he tho? Wonder if there's a Hendrix poster soaking up a little of that?

Ahh yes the Monterey Pops Festival summer 1967!Friends had a hell of a time convincing everyone I wasn't a Narc. Didn't care for beer, booze smoke or chemicals. Had short hair. A real misfit. But yeah now I feel more like "myself:. 16 months of cardiac arrthymia took it's toll. Utter exhaustion 24/7Now I can resume being a design maniac with a dozen burners lit

Scorpion Hunting / Bottled Water Sterility Maintenance

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MEXICOWANDERER
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Aug 21, 2016
It makes up for wimpy low NM with butt-kick wattage. Had a gnarly planter outside with fungawebbing galore. Turned this baby on it and 15 minutes later Dracula meets Kimchi.

IMHO O3 is the strongest sterilizer of them all. They are bottling oxonated water down here capping it and guaranteeing sterility for a year.

But I purchased "The Monster" for scorpion hunting inside and outside the house. We'll have Saturday games. Kids earn 5 pesos each scorpion they point out. Chickens go bezerk over them. Like filet mignon with sticker. They peck so fast they don't get pronged.

Later the chip gets aimed at a white exterior wall and the geckos gorge until they fall off the wall.

I much appreciate the sterilizationb heads-up.
GordonThree
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Aug 21, 2016
that's a beastly LED!

395nm is a bit low in the spectrum for ionizing radiation, it's more in the dental blue / royal blue spectra AKA "black light". I'm sure it works great for lighting up scorpions, white clothing and posters from the 60s :)

germicidal led are hard to come by, getting such a narrow bandgap (100-250nm) is tricky in conventional semiconductors, so they use more exotic stuff and that means $$$$

cheapest way to sterilize water on a budget is with a germicidal fluorescent bulb. made from special glass that does not block the short-wave UV. Put it straight into the fresh tank and it'll kill cooties day and night, and keep the tank from freezing :)

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