The next LED revolution is upon us, and it is ultraviolet

[Pike]

Thats weird because we have been using UV led to cure uv inks in large format printers for a few years now
http://www.rolanddga.com/products/printers/lej/

[Ron99]

Looks like the "UV" in those printers is just barely UVA at 395nm. Not the deep UV referred to above which is UVB at less than 315nm.

[Pike]

^ Got it , thanks

[Aqua-Digital]

Ron is right! Even though MH pump out harmful UV the lights "should" have a UV glass on them.

I would not go near this!

Another reason why LED's that are UV only go down to about 380-390 much of which if not all is filtered out by the shield.

Its quite a myth that UV from aquarium lamps gets to the corals, the name UV came from T5 tubes where they adopted the term to market purple colour.

[Bblinks]

Pretty cool to have a UV sterilizer without having to change the bulbs or at least be effective for up to 10 years.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Yeah, if you had one emitter over a dedicated section of your sump (but shielded from the skimmer) then you could eradicate parasites with this UV led emitter instead of having to hook up a reg. UV sterilizer.

[Aqua-Digital]

Yep agreed for sterilization this is a leap forward.