At 12:57 PM 7/13/01 +1200, you wrote:
> > >Let's see, you live in Indiana and you went to Hawaii for a
> > >week to erase some EPROMs ? Do you go grocery shopping
> > >in Paris ? ;-)
> >
> > I used to live there.
>
>Just pulling your mid-western leg
>
>But Alice's comments about UV has got me wondering. I made this
>one using 5W Sylvania (Philips) tubes many years ago during
>production of some data cartridges, before I knew that UV came
>in different flavours. I seem to recall it worked, but perhaps I'll
>spend a few minutes at the weekend verifying that, it's been
>some time since it was used, as I now have a small Datarase unit

Sure. The black tubes are longwave (not enough energy per photon). The
clear ones, "germicidal" are shortwave UV, and those work just fine.
There's nothing more to it than a desk lamp.

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