Current Live Stoners Gossip (Feb 2017 onward) Retired.

[L0wbob2017]

You found something I know very little about! Good job!

are you looking at adding UV light to your water cool system?

i dont know if u are rdy for that answer if rly answer it in full length hahaha

 

[Rev. Green Genes]

You might be surprised. I have an extensive history. I have worked in radio/satcom communications hardware, and used to make optical filters for communications and telescopes. I might be able to follow you.

 

[L0wbob2017]

You might be surprised. I have an extensive history. I have worked in radio/satcom communications hardware, and used to make optical filters for communications and telescopes. I might be able to follow you.

then for sure u will be rdy for this, but why didnt u say that i asked the right person a few posts before? haha

 

[Rev. Green Genes]

then for sure u will be rdy for this, but why didnt u say that i asked the right person a few posts before? haha

Well, I said I can follow what you tell me, but UV in particular is not what I did. I made Infra Red filters for Comm. companies like Lucent Technology. It's been a long time, and I have switched fields of interest since then. I can help with some things, but not otheres. I especially know nothing about plant physiological effects with presence of UV. I suspect that is what you want to know.

 

[Rev. Green Genes]

I can say, that it was not covered in plant physiology classes. The light absorbing pigments to my knowlege do not intereact with UV, but the leaf tissue would absorb some of it's energy and release heat. Too much UV would crisp them. Another thing, depending on frequency of light, some forms of UV kill bacteria, which may not be a good thing if you use Myco's.

 

[Budson 420]

is there anybody in this forum known for some special knowledge about UV-A-B-C ? i did a lot of research the last 2 days and maaaan my mind is blown away.

There is a thread on here somewhere, I read the other day, some guy testing UV lighting to increase THC levels, can't remember where it is, try the lighting sub forums? But the amount of information in there alone is mind blowing

 

[L0wbob2017]

well i am a bit further than that alrdy.

i know that there are effects for sure, the government did some research with canabis and UV-radiation, more UVB than UVA in 1989! and the results are awesome. the thc production increases because thc is the strongest UV-blocker produced by nature ( so we are very lucky haha )

so if u want to use UV-radiation u need to find out where to get specific spectrums from and depending on the wavelength that is peak, how long can u turn them on before it does any damage.

i saved all my information and sources i found.

my summary is that at the actual state of science it is not possible to get a good UV-B-C spectrum with LED's in a good intensity. there is just now way at the moment for "normal" people to afford the strongest LED's available at the moment and even if u can afford them they arent as powerfull as other sources.

so for getting that spectrum from a good source i found out that there are 40W tubes with very good spectrums and intensity, sadly all of them use mercury.

 

[Rev. Green Genes]

that at the actual state of science it is not possible to get a good UV-B-C

That sounds correct to me. I didn't know THC would absorb UV though. Have you looked into gas discharge lamps?

 

[budelee]

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[L0wbob2017]

for example there is a tube called "agromax pure uv" rated at 54W but there is 75% UV-A in it and that isnt the UV-radiation that we need.

we need to hit UV-B at least. but there are no good tubes for that UVB spectrum that wont need a work temp at 600°C except you switch into the medical sector.

i found out that there is a skin treatment for ppl with skin problems ( all different kinds ) that uses UV-B and/or UV-C radiation.
they treat the skin for a certian time with a precalculated amount of energy that will me radiated with 40W tubes with a good spectrum over a certain time. this is repeated 2 - 3 times a week.

sadly u dont get these bulbs if u arent a company. with some little tricks i found a site where these tubes can be buyed by "normal" ppl for about 80 bucks a tube.