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I recently found a Philips Actinic BL TL40w/10 tube. Unlike my other long BL tubes, this one isn't for any scientific or medical use case, more like a bugzapper lamp. But I've never seen a bugzapper above 2ft (2x 20w). What can be the purpose of this tube? |
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| Bowling alleys and entertainment centers often used them for the "blacklight effect".
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| This is a blacklight lamp, not a blacklight blue.
These places uses blacklight blue lamps.
Such a long and high wattage blacklight UVa lamp may be used for exposing printing plates (Mainly for pad printing) and screens for screen printing.
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| Probably a bit less common now due to LED, but before that it was common for larger saltwater reef aquariums to be equipped with a pair of Actinic Blue tubes for supplemental UV, usually paired with 1-3 MH lamps for the main lighting.
There were also some larger bug zapper units intended for use with 40w lamps, not too common though.
I think printing typically required higher outputs and usually used Super Diazo Blue tubes. 40w in 4ft isn't what I consider high power for the length either as normal 4ft T12 lamps are 40w.
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| Exposing printing plates and screens can also be done with a row of F40T12/BL lamps.
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| Yes, but then your curing space will be much larger to accommodate that where as using FR48T12/350BL/VHO/180 lamps can reduce the lamp count.
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I recently found a Philips Actinic BL TL40w/10 tube. Unlike my other long BL tubes, this one isn't for any scientific or medical use case, more like a bugzapper lamp. But I've never seen a bugzapper above 2ft (2x 20w). What can be the purpose of this tube?
There ARE large industrial strength bug zappers, even in 4ft tube size! Othe uses may be photochemical, like photoresist exposure, resin cure rtc... |
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| My former neighbor had a 4' commercial bug zapper that used 2- F40T12BL tubes.
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| Kroger uses 4 foot bug zappers.
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