Most UV LED flashlights sadly seem to contain UV LEDs that only range from 395 to 400+ nanometers. Not quite sufficiently for killer UV fluorescence. Are there are optimal UV flashlights @ ~365 nm out there on eBay or Amazon? I don't need to "find scorpions" or detect animal pee... I need props to brilliantly fluoresce.
It would also be cool to have a unit with 365 nm UV LEDs that are dimmable.
For those of you who've been following my surplused LED traffic signal acquisitions, I tested 4 units at random--they all worked but are not dimmable. Jammed the "spade terminals" into the receptacle of a cheap non-grounded extension cord and they all lit. Not bad for a random sample of 4 units out of... dear goodness... I'm afraid I have approximately 30 of them now. I may or may not keep them all. Need to inventory them for color and type first, then test to see that they all function.
Anyhoo... I took two of the traffic signals, using two separate extension cords and my two channel fader unit and nope... they really "want" to be All On or All Off. I thought it would have been cool to have dimmable units. Not to say they're all undimmable. Just the two I tried. And I have a variety of units from different manufacturers. Still, you'd think traffic signals for U.S. use would have to adhere to some standard...
Anyway, where can I get a UV LED flashlight with 365 nm LEDs suitable for lighting halloween props? Any models folks would recommend?
For those of you who've been following my surplused LED traffic signal acquisitions, I tested 4 units at random--they all worked but are not dimmable. Jammed the "spade terminals" into the receptacle of a cheap non-grounded extension cord and they all lit. Not bad for a random sample of 4 units out of... dear goodness... I'm afraid I have approximately 30 of them now. I may or may not keep them all. Need to inventory them for color and type first, then test to see that they all function.
Anyhoo... I took two of the traffic signals, using two separate extension cords and my two channel fader unit and nope... they really "want" to be All On or All Off. I thought it would have been cool to have dimmable units. Not to say they're all undimmable. Just the two I tried. And I have a variety of units from different manufacturers. Still, you'd think traffic signals for U.S. use would have to adhere to some standard...
Anyway, where can I get a UV LED flashlight with 365 nm LEDs suitable for lighting halloween props? Any models folks would recommend?