At 00:19 1999-01-10 -0500, you wrote:
>Sorry to get on thise subject again but...
>I just bought one of those mega bright worklamps from Sears to use for
>workin on the car.  It is a 150, 300, 500W lamp..pretty awesome eh?
>anyhow it has a warning in the directions to leave the lens on or the UV
>light is dangerous...
>Now, the usual question..anyone know if it will erase a pic?
>Be kinda sweet if I just stumbled into an eraser:)

Most of the generated UV are close to visible.
I believe there is very little, if any, UV with energy high enough to erase
EEPROM.

But you can try and report...
Keep it close enough and you will erase the whole silicon!  ;)

I have tried to put a photo discharhe lamp directly on top of the EEPROM
window, working as a strobo for a night.  No result.

/Morgan


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