Looks OK, but it mostly depends on what you want to use it for? For example, It will be useless for checking UK currency.
posted to follow. great post. Thanks for the work.
looks interesting just wondering if that mini microscope 60x really is 60x ? is that one of the cheapies ebay 6$ ones ?
The notes that don’t have the UV so visible are harder to copy. Also you might not be using the correct light to see the marks as it is quite visible on all of the lights except the TK-566. It’s all about using the right wavelength and not shining a tons of blue/violet light at it like most lights did. I think they are still too much in the visible spectrum.
Wow! Awesome thread, thank you for sharing! Where did you get the TK light from?
Has anyone tried the UV drop in from Solarforce? $14.99 for the P-60 type drop in.
- Provide 230 Lumens Max output
- Wavelength: 380 - 450nm
I was just playing with my Inova X5 UV and decided I wanted to see if the UV would make a glo-ring light up better than the regular LED it was installed in.
I wasnt expecting the LED in the light to start glowing but I realise now that I should have.
Anyway after checking out all my lights that are within easy reach and I think I've got a way to verify that the tint I ordered is the tint I recieved.
My warm white LED glowed red, neutral (and some sold as cool) white glowed orange, and the cool white glowed plain white.
Can anyone else back me up on this?
Well spotted!
I don’t have any warm white LED’s but can confirm my Neutral ones glow an orangy/pink and cool ones white.
You could well be onto something here! Gonna watch and see how this develops.
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Those pictures of money remind me of fake-money detection devices. :bigsmile:
Took a picture using my 365nm uv led to show what shur found.
On top is neutral, warm and a green led.
The lower ones are all cool white and didn’t show much but there is a Nichia 219 glowing pretty nice bellow the warm white.
Never thought of photos but here’s what I got
XML-U2 Cool white
and an XML-T6 Neutral white
I posted this a few times in various threads. I take it that no one has any experience with the Solarforce UV drop in? It is a low voltage 3-4.2v drop in designed to run best on a single 18650, RCR123, or CR123 battery.
http://www.solarforceflashlight-sales.com/product_detail.php?t=RB&s=11&id=44
I’m using the 380 UV dropin from manafont in a Ultrafire 502b
Looks like a similar drop in.
Thank you for the review, mfm! I was just thinking I need a better UV light (AA preferably) and the Tank007 TK-566 sounds perfect.
I just got one of these in. Haven’t played with it much. Very fast shipping.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=170856532430
Wow 
Nice review, thank you for your sharing! I will go for one.
Yes, I’ve got one. I’m fascinated by the differences when you bounce UV light off things.
The drop-in is very good for what I bought it for - charging up Glow in the dark objects, strong enough to light your way at night, about a 20ft. beam, there’s quite a lot of “normal” light emitted along with the UV.
I’ve just ordered one of these, it might be better still.
I use 550 paracord a lot and some of the colours fluoresce strongly under UV light, they look strange having two colours on a strand of camo with 3 or 4 colours shine brightly.
Thank you for the update
good picture, thank you!