Thread: Help with blacklight bulb please

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Hi everyone i bought a blacklight bulb today from my local electrical shop it says that it produces a large amount of ultra violet light that makes glow in the dark things glow and whites glow brighter.

so i bought it and put it in and switched it on, and nothing glowed why doesnt anything glow is it the wrong bulb.

please help me...

here is the link to where i purchased this bulb.

Blacklight UV Bulb > Maplin

The incandescent blacklight bulbs don't produce any UV light at all and they run very hot. They do make a nice purple light, though. If you want UV you need to use the fluorescent tubes. You can also get screw-in UV CFL's, too.

Otaku is right, incandescent blacklight bulbs don't produce any UV light at all and are pretty much not worth buying. You'll get a better result with a fluorescent UV light or even better a LED UV light. From what I've seen the LED UV's give off the best glow, they are more expensive but the results you get are much better. This is the one we're planning on buying this year GGL18SUV - Ultra Violet 18 UV LED Blacklight Bulb

I see what you mean but because i live in the uk i cant use those light bulbs we have bayonet cap light fixtures so i dont know where to get bulbs like the ones you are talking about...

I found these are these ones any good what do you think?

Blacklight box, ultra violet, 450mm, 15W: Electronics & Photo: Amazon.co.uk

Originally Posted by jack o lantern

I found these are these ones any good what do you think?

Blacklight box, ultra violet, 450mm, 15W: Electronics & Photo: Amazon.co.uk

I have those exact lights. Bought at Wal Mart. They work great.

Thanks val the only trouble is now getting the money together to buy one off ebay before they all sell as i am totally skint at the moment.

must be all the halloween stuff i keep buying lol...

i use the twisted energy saver bulbs , (the twisted compact fluorescent bulbs) they do make black light bulbs , they are less hot then the others and produce decent light .....do you have those bulbs (the regular white ones ) in stores in the UK ?

HALLOWEEN LIGHT BULBS LOT OF 2 ORANGE OR BLACK - eBay (item 200255272119 end time Sep-26-08 19:06:57 PDT)

We have these ones (A Witch From Canada) dont know if they would make things glow though.
Amazon.co.uk: Blacklight Blue Energy Saver Bayonet Fit (BC) 11 watts: Electronics & Photo

see all these blacklight bulbs that i look at say they are uv but when you try them they just give off a purple glow.

Originally Posted by jack o lantern

We have these ones (A Witch From Canada) dont know if they would make things glow though.
Amazon.co.uk: Blacklight Blue Energy Saver Bayonet Fit (BC) 11 watts: Electronics & Photo

see all these blacklight bulbs that i look at say they are uv but when you try them they just give off a purple glow.

i think they would work too , here are pic of the twisted compact i use , those pic are from 2005 ,sorry pic are blurry but you see no purple there