Has anyone built one of these? Seems rather simple to buy a few ballasts, switches, bulbs, fan and cut a wood box for a UV light source for contact printing. Is there anything special about printing UV sensitive paper that i'm missing?
Build your own UV light box?
Has anyone built one of these? Seems rather simple to buy a few ballasts, switches, bulbs, fan and cut a wood box for a UV light source for contact printing. Is there anything special about printing UV sensitive paper that i'm missing?
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Nothing your missing. I mounted mine up exactly that way. Note you can get bulb holders and stick a single screw in the center of them to hold them in place. My basic design was to lay out the holders on a 12x12 board then I just added 4 legs to that board and turned it over. The ballasts and switches go on the opposite side of the board. Someday I will get around to adding sides, but without sides their is less ventilation/heat concerns. It doesn't need to be complicated or pretty.
i bought a sun tanning thing off of eBOINK
and suspend it in a wooden peach crate ..
the whole thing cost me less than $30 ..
its not as effective as something giant but it was cheap.
in the end i just use the sun ( there pretty often and... free )
Yes I 've built several. The most critical element is to be certain of the wave length of the fluorescent tubes. You need to use something similar to this bulb:
http://tinyurl.com/zc3mx4w
This one specs. 350 nm. Of course you don't need to use 4 foot tubes.
Good luck.
Doesn't seem to be much there. What are you using?
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