Hello I am currently in the planning stages of a project, and am thinking about what type of UV light to use to provide the light to all the UV stuff. I have come up with 3 possibilities, they are these : 1. Dual cold cathodes, you know the drill, 2 cathodes on an inverter with a switch etc, but I have heard a lot of problems about using cold cathodes? Can someone confirm this? 2. A LaserLED, as seen on this page in the 2nd box down, similiar to a cathode I guess? 3. Bying the LED's seperately and wiring them up, a lot more hassle and could prove to be more expensive depending on the number of led's required to provide adequate lighting? How many do you think I would need? So yeah, those are my options I think, if anyone has other ideas please suggest, thank you.
perhaps the question should be, what type of light and where? if you just want UV "hotspots" on certain peiced of uv reactive stuff, then personally i'd buy the led's seperately and make the lights myself, so you can put the light exactly where and how you want it. (like, if you wanted a fan to have UV, but not the board its sitting on) if you just want to bathe everything in UV and have everything glowing and all that stuffs, then dual cathodes sound like a better solution, maybe one at the top and one at the bottom to avoid huge shadows and flood the case with UV light. i couldnt see the laser-leds in UV on that site, but i only had a very quick look. they might be good for getting UV into those hard-to-reach places? have a look at your case, and see what type of light you want, and where. then choose the best tool for the job.
like he said, LEDs will only do so much, and will not light up your entire case. I use two cathodes one at the top of my case and one at the bottom for a bright and even glow throughout everything in my case.
Thanks for the tips, I ain't got the case yet I'm still looking for a cheap one. The cathodes will probably give me most light so I think I'll use them. Thanks
Yeah, but UV lighting is only good for making stuff glow, not illuminating a case. I'd suggest wiring up LEDs and diffusing them by sanding them lightly. The light seems to spread out much more and not be as "spotlightey", although spotlights may be more of what you're looking for.
