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legitronics • yesterday at 10:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The color configurable bulbs or the high CRI bulbs typically use a 400nm led source and some do use a 380nm but those are much rarer and expensive. Also almost any amount of plastic or glass will significantly absorb that wavelength of UV.

I have a 405nm laser pointer and it makes certain things (any% titanium dioxide) absurdly bright from fluorescence. So you probably aren’t getting UV from those bulbs, but certainly some IR.


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lightedman • today at 1:58 PM

"The color configurable bulbs or the high CRI bulbs typically use a 400nm led source and some do use a 380nm but those are much rarer and expensive."

Cree, Nichia, et.al. use ~460nm LED with a cerium-doped aluminum-yttrium garnet cover to convert to white light and have done so for at least half a decade. Just a bare look at the spectral output chart from any company will tell you the wavelength of the base emitter, with a MASSIVE output peak centered around 460nm.

Nobody has used UV as a white LED base for well over a decade or more.