sparkyv
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What is the purpose(s) of UV flashlights? I use my flashlight to look for bedbugs between the hotel matress and boxspring. Does a UV light help in this respect?
What is the purpose of UV flashlights?
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raggie33
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yes it should but im wrong avlot
Brokenarrow
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Looking at fishing tackle
GadgetGeek
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In addition they're great for charging up the lume on my watch.
Ocelot808
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You beat me to the punch, Orca Twin.
Seriously if you are suspecting bedbugs in your travel lodgings, it's time to really step up your hotel budget and stop worrying.
sparkyv
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Our plants aren't located in metropolitan locations.
And besides, I've seen reports of bed bugs in some pretty good places.
And besides, I've seen reports of bed bugs in some pretty good places.
Dave_H
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The Defiant 3AAA UV flashlight I got at Home Depot (but don't see them there anymore) claims to detect scorpions by making them glow. No scorpions around here but light may be useful in some locations.
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raggie33
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that pissed them off when i tried it they almost stoped there concert
Dave_H
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From an earlier thread (somewhere) there was mention of UV usefulness for detecting blood, urine, and various substances depending on the wavelength. Other fun uses include lighting up day-glo posters and all sorts of ordinary objects and materials which fluoresce to varying degrees.
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Uranium glass hunters use them. They use the 395nm wavelength though.
They help find leaks in AC systems.
raggie33
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but knly if they inject a dye is system first? or am. i mistaken?
Maybe for home AC's. I may be mistaken but I think automobile AC systems have die in it already.
Or for checking for a coolant leak
Or for checking for a coolant leak
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i love that guys youtube channel .he gets abit dramatic somedays but he is smart as hell
Checking money first
letschat7
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That is my use of UV.
Scorpion's skin are said to glow in UV
(never been able to test myself)
and as this seems to be such a curiosity:
Do "normal" bugs even glow under UV?
Does this "test" in a hotel makes sense?
Have You ever found anything
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(never been able to test myself)
and as this seems to be such a curiosity:
Do "normal" bugs even glow under UV?
Does this "test" in a hotel makes sense?
Have You ever found anything
🤔
alpg88
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I'm pretty sure bedbugs do not glow in uv. you wont find many stains on sheets either, cuz white sheets themselves glow. soap residue glows,
I use UV for target illumination, i get uv fluorescent balloons, fill them with paper punch circles, 2-3 spoonful's, white printer paper glows pretty bright, than i shine uv on them, when you pop them the punch circles create very cool effect.
I use UV for target illumination, i get uv fluorescent balloons, fill them with paper punch circles, 2-3 spoonful's, white printer paper glows pretty bright, than i shine uv on them, when you pop them the punch circles create very cool effect.
Can you get a video of that? Sounds like fun but who cleans it up?
GadgetGeek
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I loaned a family member an Eos UV light to pickup pet stains. Haven't got it back yet.
