A UV light came in the mail from darksucks. I didnt realize the battery was already inserted into the light. Without realizing it didnt have a button, I turned the cap and I may have looked into the LED. After a few moments, my eyes are starting to feel heavy and they feel a little strange. Should I expect blindness at any moment or wake up in the morning unable to see? Starting to become increasingly worried.
Will effect be temporary?
Nah you’ll be alright no way it would be bright enough to cause damage. What kind of light is it? What UV LED does it use?
My eyes always feel similiar after using a UV light but I’ve some what gotten use to it.
A welder is next level compared to a UV LED light.
Hope you get well…
Here is some info, what power level is the UV source you got exposed to?
It’s this one, it has an LG UV emitter
Nah you’ll be fine! Id be more concerned if it was a UV S2+ but even then it shouldn’t really matter.
But it is fatiguing to your eyes just try not to shine it directly into your eyes.
It should be fine, as long as it doesn’t sustain for 48 hours.
Same here almost every time. UV-light is not ordinary light. If your eyes see sunlight they act correspondingly. The human eye does not automatically “see” 365nm UV-light and does not (re)act the same with blinking and adjusting pupils. To put it very blunt: you eyes don’t see 365nm UV-light but UV-light certainly sees your eyes!
But I don’t think structural harm is done if you did not ask yourself a minute long: wtf is happening here?
In my case, the “effects”of looking into UV-light last atm an hour or so. (Re)act the same as with natural light. Blink a bit more than you usually do, because you have a bit of “sunburn” on your eyes.
And be aware that uv light not only can cause harm if you look straight into the light. Reflection of mirrors, windows, and bathroom tiles also can cause the same unwanted effects.
You guys are trying to be nice by lying to him.
Just be honest, his head will explode in 48hrs
Yikes!!! I didn’t realize UV light did that! :confounded:
While that might not happen, it should be noted that UV light is dangerous. In addition to injuring your eyes, it can cause skin cancer. When using a UV light, it might be a good idea to wear eye protection. Even some UV blocking sunglasses would help.
A UV flashlight is dangerous. Treat it more like a laser rather than a toy.
I have a UV light using a bunch of 5mm UV LEDs that I got for curing Norland optical glue. I’d put on the sunglasses, put the light in a vise facing my parts to be glued, turn it on… then run out of the room and close the door. Not sure I really needed to do all that though… my UV light was pretty weak. I found my parts actually cured faster if I just took them outside and let the sun shine on them.
Were you wearing glasses? If so they should have filtered most of the UV.
My eyes are burning, feels like sand was thrown at my eyes.
I use regular arm & hammer baking soda, just a little diluted with warm water to sooth my eyes if there are any problems. Works very well for me.
Easy to check :innocent:
Take a piece of white copier paper and shine on it with your UV-light. It will flare up like hell, unless you use “green” recycled paper.
Take of your glasses and hold them between light and paper. If you are wearing lightweight polycarbonate glasses, like I do, they will block most of the UV-light and you will see a dark shadow on your paper.
If you see a light shadow, or almost no shadow at all, buy a pair of protected glasses!
And even with those glasses on: avoid looking into a direct or reflected (mirrors!) beam of UV-light.
Hi trailhunter, how are your eyes now? From the posts above I understand that they still hurted after 3 hours so you got exposed quite well.
Btw, as others mentioned above as well, I had my share of UV light in my eyes (also from a lab-job that I had for 10 years) and I’m sure that has caused some eye-wear over time, but I have not noticed any short-term damage yet.
arc welding without proper eye protection is pretty bad but people recover from it, even if its very unpleasant for like 48h
nah, unless it was a laser.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to die blind, alone, and in agonizing pain.
Probably won’t happen for 50 years, and has nothing to do with his UV flashlight, but it’s a good bet.
the UV warnings on the darksucks.com website:
.
[quote=Henk4U2]
good idea, I was curious
my UV light, my polycarbonate prescription glasses, and the anti UV glasses my Retina doctor gave me after a procedure.
my N219b 4500k: