In message <199701152014.PAA15396@gemini.cc.gatech.edu>, Byron A Jeff writes >> >> In message > 100000@unixs6.cis.pitt.edu>, Pedro J Barrios writes >> >Hi: >> > >> >I'm getting started with the programming of pics and since many of them >> >have eproms I will surely need an UV eraser. Does any one of >> >you have an extra one or one you don't use anymore. If so >> >please e-mail me with price and S/H costs. >> >> >> It's very easy to make one. Just buy a 12" fluorescent fitting, and swap >> the tube for a UV tube. I don't bother with a timer or a proper box - I >> just use the timer on my watch and put a cardboard box over the thing >> whilst it is on. With the EPROMs against the tube, they only take about >> 10 minutes to erase. > >I did soething simular with a 6in tube and a $7 flourescent fixture I got >from home depot. It was even battery powered so I can do erasures on >the go. > >How ever scavenged the tube from another eraser with a bad ballast. The >real question is: where can you get UV tubes from and how much do they >cost? A very helpful little outfit in London (Service Trading Co., 57 Bridgman Rd., Chiswick, W4 5BB. Tel: 0181 995 1560) stocks them (about #8 UK) and sells a complete kit (less case) for #15 UK. They also stock the other UV tubes for exposing PCBs. Not much use to those of you outside the UK, unfortunately. Leon -- Leon Heller, G1HSM leon@lfheller.demon.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 118 947 1424 (home) +44 (0) 1344 385556 (work)