Just curious, but does an off the shelf white or blue LED emit any UV of a usable level?
I use a CFL for UV exposure, but it is a PITA to set up, and for the cost of one UV LED, I can by a bag of 10 ultra white or ultra blue LEDs.
Just curious, but does an off the shelf white or blue LED emit any UV of a usable level?
I use a CFL for UV exposure, but it is a PITA to set up, and for the cost of one UV LED, I can by a bag of 10 ultra white or ultra blue LEDs.
**Even better, you can buy UV LEDs. They're not really UV, they're deep purple, but they do the job. I've used them in place of unobtainable cold cathode UV tubes.
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For the cost of one from Farnell, I can buy 10 blue/white LEDs.
Very sharp! :)
**You asked about UV, not white or blue. If you want UV, use a UV LED.
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I seriously doubt that any blue/white ones emit more than a 2% UV. but check for yourself farnell have links to data-sheets (and most of them work)
wikipedia says UV is wavelengths smaller than 400nm, and a quick search of a different site found no datasheets for visible light leds that emit a measurable amount of UV
AIUI UV LEDs are made out of a different semiconductor to those used for visible LEDs.
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