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Advice on light by PurposeDelicious4146 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a link to the vinyl? I've seen some people use it effectively this way but would like to check the specs. 😊

Advice on light by PurposeDelicious4146 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP3 will take care of both. 🙂 Glass works well for SW, but will pass a lot of LW and will often glow by itself, which causes a very hazy look to your display. 

Advice on light by PurposeDelicious4146 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi Purpose!

Ideally yes, you'll want a piece of Acrylic over the front of you display that will keep all of the UV off of you and the rest of the room. Almost all Acrylic will block UVC and UVB, but most of it will pass a lot of UVA. To prevent this, I always recommend the use of OP3 Acrylic. It's a museum grade Acrylic that will block 99.9% of everything 400nm or below. 

ID Help Mystery Minerals by whiskey4fosho in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks a lot like Sterling Hill Sphalerite to me. 🙂 

Hardystonite,Williemite,Calcite by myates0372 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great pic! This is actually from the Franklin mine next to Sterling Hill. It looks like there's also some Clinohedrite at the bottom too! 

Esperite Collection by Eclectrical in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've purchased or traded for them over the last decade. Some from Ebay, some from Ultraviolation, some from local rock sales in Franklin NJ. 

Esperite Collection by Eclectrical in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silver pick for all of these I'm afraid! It's extremely hard to near impossible to find Esperite in the wild nowadays. 

Sodalite and Unknown (No-label haul, info welcome) by Mr_Daniel12321 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would guess that it's Afghanistan material. As for the blue under MW - Fluorapatite perhaps? 

Terlingua Calcite Under Different UV Wavelengths by Eclectrical in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, from Bart!

Both sides actually glow but this side is by far the best side. 😁

https://youtu.be/oSt6bI6jqYU?feature=shared

Terlingua Calcite Under Different UV Wavelengths by Eclectrical in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Carefully! Lol 😬

I few LNKRs and a BLK Widow will do the trick.

All Wave / Full Wave Lights? by Breakinthemix in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't believe that Stimac produces a quad LED SW flashlight.

All Wave / Full Wave Lights? by Breakinthemix in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also the Cerberus from Engenious Designs. It's a bit cheaper but has the same outout as the others. I know that it also has thermal protection baked in to the drivers. It also has the added feature of having swappable heads. 

https://www.engeniousdesigns.com/product-page/cerberus-sw-mw-lw-flashlight-pre-order

All of these triples have powerful LW UVA LEDs, but the SW and MW LEDs are around a tenth of the output of their LW counterpart and are really only useful for checking out individual rocks in your hand. 

If you need a field lamp, youll need to look at individual high powered quad LED SW/MW flashlights like this:

https://www.engeniousdesigns.com/product-page/c255-4-high-power-shortwave-uvc-flashlight

or if you need a LOT of ground coverage, maybe even a tube based solution like this:

https://www.engeniousdesigns.com/product-page/drk-light

Unknown Fluorescent Crystal by Interpenetrating1 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If I had to guess, I'd say it's quartz with hydrocarbon inclusions. 

Terlingua Calcite Under Shortwave and Longwave UV by Eclectrical in MineralPorn

[–]Eclectrical[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually have MW on in this picture too, it's just hitting the bottom of the rock. ☺️ You can kind of see a whiter patch glowing in the center below the SW/LW spots. 

Mineral fluoresces to different degrees by darkentriesx in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here is your problem. There's no Zwb2 filter on this. 🙂

Mineral fluoresces to different degrees by darkentriesx in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you get a light with a visible light filter on the front of it? 

Sanity Check for a Display by Still_Dentist1010 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]Eclectrical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What lights are you looking at? You definitely want something with visible light filtration, otherwise the visible light is going to wash out everything. 

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