UV LEDs

[AKA_RA]

How well do these work compared to a UV cold cathode? Other than not lighting up the whole case.

I'm mainly working with LEDs in this new project, so i would rather stick with those and avoid cathodes if the UV LEDs will work.

[Luke122]

I'll be following this thread.. I've been looking for some UV led's locally with no luck. Might have to order some.

[AKA_RA]

im gonna look around, and prolly buy some random crap off the internet for now reason. its about time to get useless stuff to mess with, s o i might as well get LEDs while im at it. if i get some, ill post pics of the results here. im just hoping theyre not just purple or something.

[armadilloben]

i bought a package of ten 400-410 nanometer ultraviolet pre-wired leds from www.besthongkong.com for my rig so that i could light up the uv paint in the pc. unfortunately they would not illuminate the paint :down: but they are pretty bright and i like em try those just buy a different nanometer led

[OvRiDe]

I haven't messed with them myself, but I Snakesz and Ediejo did a joint project for CoolerMaster on a Stacker that used quite a few of them. Here (http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=120542) is the log on Bit-tech. The project came out very nice and here are some example shots of the UV LEDs in action.

http://ediejo.dnrhosting.nl/Casemods/Stacker/compo2k.jpg
http://ediejo.dnrhosting.nl/Casemods/Stacker/compo12k.jpg

They seem to light up the UV reactive acrylic pretty well.

Hope this helps.

[progbuddy]

Google "Nichia" LEDs. They have high mcd output, and they have a wide selection of UV LEDs, color LEDs, and white LEDs (up to 100,000 mcd)