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Advancements in technology are always fascinating. UV is something that rockhounds love! I watched a video of a uv being used in the south west at night and was amazed by scorpions showing up so bright. Made a note of when I go out west to bring my UV Light with me lol.
Thanks so much for reviewing my light! Wasn't expecting a shoutout at the beginning of the video. It's a passion project that I've been working on for 3 years so it truly means a lot when people are excited by it. I'm sorry the price isn't to your liking but it's representative of my costs. Just the 255nm shortwave LED costs $20 in wholesale quantities. It's an expensive light to make! Once the technology improves and prices come down I'd love to make a more affordable light. Happy to answer any questions. P.S. There is a battery life indicator. Just plug the light into your power bank and it'll display the current charge.
Was interested until I clicked on the link and can’t find any details on the light. What type of charge connector is used? What is the difference between the pro and regular version? At the price it should have detailed specs listed. Tried clicking on the link for owners manual and nothing works.
@@troyolsenRC Sorry for the confusion. The page linked is actually for one of my dealers so I can't help with site-related issues. As for the questions I can answer, it uses a USB-C plug. I believe the regular version includes a battery, usb cable, and 3d printed adapters shown. The pro version has the above as well as an extra battery and belt holster.
Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic light and really my only criticism is the price, the thing is for myself at least I have 4 shortwave lights, 2 midwave lights, and 3 longwave lights. All of these lights work perfectly well, yeah they are not the latest and greatest but they so still work and with limited resources, I can just buy the new things. I did say in the video that if you know want to explore the world of UV rocks and minerals, this would be a great first light since you get everything you would ever want in one light. Although I'm not a maker of lights, I do have a pretty good understanding of the costs to make something like this and I do not think it is overpriced at all. I do appreciate all the work you put into this light and I look forward to seeing what you make in the future.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Totally understand where you're coming from. The technology could also improve in the future. I'm super appreciative of all my customers and dealers for being early adopters of this tech. There's a real scenario where LED manufacturers decide to drop their 255nm line because of poor sales. The hobby would be in a devastating place as mercury gets banned in more places due to environmental factors. The wavelength hasn't found large scale commercial use and I've seen it happen once! All the lights you and others own are taking a stance against that though
Oh my god, I love this! I'm definitely going to get myself one! It's got basically everything I could wish for - I don't have to lug around a charger any more and neither 3 different lights, and the fact that you can "customize" it depending on the batteries you have available... this ust hits all the right notes. Thanks for sharing!
I enjoyed watching your video. Let me know if you get any questions that may need my weighing in on them. Funny you bring up the neoprene cap for the light. I DO have something in the works on that as well. Not neoprene. But it will perform that function you mentioned in the video. And of course, I offer a ballistic nylon type protective holster for the light that you can wear on a belt or possibly attach to the backpack.
I think you have too many lights to choose from. The shop is starting to come together. Although I think you should paint scenery pictures on the walls. Or maybe pictures of rockhounding locations you've been to. You always have something interesting to talk about. Happy New Year and I hope you find lots of fun rocks to play with.
Too many UV lights is like having too many nice thundereggs, this is a problem I'm happy to have. Thank you, the shop feels really nice these days but its not fully done but I'll get there with it. I would love to have something like that painted on the wall in here, however I would have to hire someone I think because I certainly can't do it.
My wife and I arefairly new rock hounds. We're transitioning from tumbling to cutting and shaping rocks. We're on a budget so using an old lathe converted to grinder, sander polisher and drill press to flat lap and have several cheap tile saws etc. Funny i just realized I'm the poster boy for Harbor Freight rock hounds lol. In fact i bought a cheap harbor freight uv light under $10. It does barely work so I i bought a larger one off Amazon for $20 that works much better. Besides the fun of looking around at night when camping etc could you do a video on florescent minerals and how you use uv lights in rock hounding? I also want to wish you both a Happy New Year and out of the many many rock hounders we follow on TH-cam you are the most entertaining, most intelligent and an out of the box thinker. You have fundamentally guided us on our endeavors to up our game. Thank you and keep on rocking !!!
Welcome to the great hobby in the world! You can use the different UV lights in mineral identification, you can get into UV photography, and you can search for specific rocks and minerals with these that otherwise would be difficult to discern from the surrounding rocks in the daylight. Happy New Years! :)
Great review, great video! I'm an avid collector of flashlights...🤓 and would love to know where you got your titanium pocket light? I also agree with your statement about purchasing this Full wave before you spent all the loot on the other individual UV lights. It's a little hard to justify, but it's also a very convenient all in one light.
I have an Alonefire SV 43 UV light, bought off Amazon.ca. It has 4 indicator lights denoting battery charge. Also has auto power reduction to 60-70 % after 3 minutes to avoid overheating. Very satisfied with it.
This is probably a dumb question but it looks like the short wave makes the rocks glow the most. So what is the advantage of the medium wave and longer wave. If you explained that and I missed it my apologies.
That's not a dumb question at all. So different minerals will react better under different spectrums of light. For example, many calcites will have a better reaction under midwave lights. It just so happen to be that the example rocks here leaned towards the short.
You can get the soft neoprene covers for rifle scopes. Those should work and they aren't very expensive but they will cover the entire flashlight like a bag. And depending on the diameter of the flashlight you can get the flip cap type scope covers. I was lucky and found one that fit my shortwave flashlight.
Ive hunted for the sodalights and the big uvbeast lights have >30 feet of good throw. Id say if you found a larger one you could see it pop 100 feet away or more
Great information! Still way out of my league! But I can always dream! And might as well dream of the better if not the best! But it's always great information and the difference between the mid wave and the long wave is impressive enough! Thanks Jared! Always learn a lot from your videos!
Great video! You have a great collection of lights...and rocks, minerals, and gems! Lol. I'd really love to get a light that can emit multiple frequencies and at variable intensity. Right now I have two and I go through my specimen collection all the time; it's fun! Let me know if you have a P.O. Box, and I'll send you some nifty samples from California. Take care!
I had been asked that a fair number of times when showing prototypes for this light. I don't think it makes sense quite yet for the 255nm and 310nm since they're considerably weaker than the 365nm. I also wasn't sure if the ramping feature would confuse people. Could be something for the future though!
I've been playing with filters and UV chips. I'm frustrated that there's no true invisible light. It doesn't make sense to me why not? If the eye can't see UV, and the filters remove 99% of VIS, enough filters should be able to defeat the eye, but there's still so much bluish-white lumination.
It's because the light output by these LEDs is a spectrum shaped like a bell curve. It's got a peak where it's outputting most of the light. This is represented in datasheets as Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM). There's still a tiny bit of that bell curve that stretches into the visible spectrum. A truly invisible uv light isn't likely because of that but you should be able to do it with infrared. 1300+nm LEDs are commonly available.
@@Raymond-Wu They make filters to cut out the visible end of the bell curve though. But it seems impossible to eliminate it completely for some reason.
@@VersaiOnline That's true but it doesn't completely cut if off 100%. There might still be half a percent to a few percent at those visible wavelengths.
Hello- I am trying to buy a Hi-tech diamond slanted polisher.They are back ordered from Kinglsy North.I watched a video where you can give 10% off for a flat lap.Are they backordered also?
Always a fan of your content! Looked it up as soon as I saw it, at $375 it's a no brainer...NO! I thought my Nightcore Gemlight was spendy! It has a thumb wheel that turns the light up or down, although it's not multiple waves, it's reallya big jump then to just grab another cheap uv light in the spectrum ya want! Just to expensive at this moment! Like always anything Lapidary ChaChing! Thanks for the information 👍
I think you may have missed the point here of the video. It wasn't to try and sell you a light, the point was to show where we have been in the past with these lights and what the future will likely be like. 5 or 6 years ago, this wasn't even a possibility and now it is, that's the point.
@CurrentlyRockhounding Totally got that, everything evolves, in the product world it's from necessity and or competition, to anyone viewing tho, it comes down to the final throw, as in your commentary, $... I like you have multiple lights, I use them often, although we all see these lights getting smaller over the years, less expensive, it's only a matter of time to not only see a light..."Pun intended" but to see a light that has all the spectrums,but with all the fancy dimmers, sliders, gauges, & blinking! However let's note that ANY segment on a NEW product is going to be viewed as..." should I purchase" by the viewers, even if your intentions aren't to endorse or not SALES that's exactly what such a segment does! Other comments reveal that... "I'm gonna get one" said seen! Sure the technical issues are a topic, however in the end, every viewer will come to the same conclusion...WORTH! Thanks again for showing the light, it's kewls, needs some refining, mainstream charging as you said one of them, packing backup batteries is a BOO these days! Love the channel ❤️
Oh heck no! A BIG NOPE from me on that “full wave” handheld - with the buttons up front on the side ffs. That button placement design makes people conflate them with regular flashlights and tend to flash others in the face with it. Safety glasses don’t even block shortwave.
I'm sorry but this really sounds like a user error on the behalf of people you know. I have never shined a UV light in someone's eyes or my own for that matter. Both my normal glasses and my safety glasses block 254/255nm UVC shortwave light. I'm not sure who told you that safety glasses do not block shortwave but they do. Also, most of the sellers of UV lights sell the glasses as well. I'm happy to post some photos of my glasses blocking it in my community tab on the channel if it's helpful to you or if you don't believe me.
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Advancements in technology are always fascinating. UV is something that rockhounds love! I watched a video of a uv being used in the south west at night and was amazed by scorpions showing up so bright. Made a note of when I go out west to bring my UV Light with me lol.
Thanks so much for reviewing my light! Wasn't expecting a shoutout at the beginning of the video. It's a passion project that I've been working on for 3 years so it truly means a lot when people are excited by it. I'm sorry the price isn't to your liking but it's representative of my costs. Just the 255nm shortwave LED costs $20 in wholesale quantities. It's an expensive light to make! Once the technology improves and prices come down I'd love to make a more affordable light.
Happy to answer any questions.
P.S. There is a battery life indicator. Just plug the light into your power bank and it'll display the current charge.
Was interested until I clicked on the link and can’t find any details on the light. What type of charge connector is used? What is the difference between the pro and regular version? At the price it should have detailed specs listed. Tried clicking on the link for owners manual and nothing works.
@@troyolsenRC Sorry for the confusion. The page linked is actually for one of my dealers so I can't help with site-related issues. As for the questions I can answer, it uses a USB-C plug. I believe the regular version includes a battery, usb cable, and 3d printed adapters shown. The pro version has the above as well as an extra battery and belt holster.
Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic light and really my only criticism is the price, the thing is for myself at least I have 4 shortwave lights, 2 midwave lights, and 3 longwave lights. All of these lights work perfectly well, yeah they are not the latest and greatest but they so still work and with limited resources, I can just buy the new things.
I did say in the video that if you know want to explore the world of UV rocks and minerals, this would be a great first light since you get everything you would ever want in one light.
Although I'm not a maker of lights, I do have a pretty good understanding of the costs to make something like this and I do not think it is overpriced at all.
I do appreciate all the work you put into this light and I look forward to seeing what you make in the future.
After one of his previous videos I dove down the rabbit hole thinking of a tri band light. I love your solution
@@CurrentlyRockhounding Totally understand where you're coming from. The technology could also improve in the future. I'm super appreciative of all my customers and dealers for being early adopters of this tech. There's a real scenario where LED manufacturers decide to drop their 255nm line because of poor sales. The hobby would be in a devastating place as mercury gets banned in more places due to environmental factors. The wavelength hasn't found large scale commercial use and I've seen it happen once! All the lights you and others own are taking a stance against that though
Oh my god, I love this! I'm definitely going to get myself one! It's got basically everything I could wish for - I don't have to lug around a charger any more and neither 3 different lights, and the fact that you can "customize" it depending on the batteries you have available... this ust hits all the right notes. Thanks for sharing!
It really does check a lot of boxes that I want out of a light as well.
The ramp feature is awesome! You are spot-on regarding up-close shots being way too over saturated.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you as well.
I enjoyed watching your video. Let me know if you get any questions that may need my weighing in on them. Funny you bring up the neoprene cap for the light. I DO have something in the works on that as well. Not neoprene. But it will perform that function you mentioned in the video. And of course, I offer a ballistic nylon type protective holster for the light that you can wear on a belt or possibly attach to the backpack.
Nice to see you on one of my favorite channels! Happy New Year Pat!
Thank you again for sending me the light to check out, it's a great design.
I love uv
I think this one looks very convenient but since i have 2 I'd have to think hard on the price. Thanks for the good information.
Great video! And now Kent wants another rock hounding light of course. 😅
I think you have too many lights to choose from. The shop is starting to come together. Although I think you should paint scenery pictures on the walls. Or maybe pictures of rockhounding locations you've been to. You always have something interesting to talk about. Happy New Year and I hope you find lots of fun rocks to play with.
Too many UV lights is like having too many nice thundereggs, this is a problem I'm happy to have.
Thank you, the shop feels really nice these days but its not fully done but I'll get there with it.
I would love to have something like that painted on the wall in here, however I would have to hire someone I think because I certainly can't do it.
Workshop is looking good!
Thank you!
Thanks Jared- great video as always!
Thank you!
My wife and I arefairly new rock hounds. We're transitioning from tumbling to cutting and shaping rocks. We're on a budget so using an old lathe converted to grinder, sander polisher and drill press to flat lap and have several cheap tile saws etc. Funny i just realized I'm the poster boy for Harbor Freight rock hounds lol. In fact i bought a cheap harbor freight uv light under $10. It does barely work so I i bought a larger one off Amazon for $20 that works much better. Besides the fun of looking around at night when camping etc could you do a video on florescent minerals and how you use uv lights in rock hounding? I also want to wish you both a Happy New Year and out of the many many rock hounders we follow on TH-cam you are the most entertaining, most intelligent and an out of the box thinker. You have fundamentally guided us on our endeavors to up our game. Thank you and keep on rocking !!!
Welcome to the great hobby in the world!
You can use the different UV lights in mineral identification, you can get into UV photography, and you can search for specific rocks and minerals with these that otherwise would be difficult to discern from the surrounding rocks in the daylight.
Happy New Years! :)
Great review, great video!
I'm an avid collector of flashlights...🤓 and would love to know where you got your titanium pocket light?
I also agree with your statement about purchasing this Full wave before you spent all the loot on the other individual UV lights.
It's a little hard to justify, but it's also a very convenient all in one light.
My titanium pocket light is made by ReyLight. I'm very happy with it.
Thanks!
I have an Alonefire SV 43 UV light, bought off Amazon.ca. It has 4 indicator lights denoting battery charge. Also has auto power reduction to 60-70 % after 3 minutes to avoid overheating. Very satisfied with it.
That is a good 365nm light from what I have heard from people.
This is probably a dumb question but it looks like the short wave makes the rocks glow the most. So what is the advantage of the medium wave and longer wave. If you explained that and I missed it my apologies.
That's not a dumb question at all.
So different minerals will react better under different spectrums of light. For example, many calcites will have a better reaction under midwave lights.
It just so happen to be that the example rocks here leaned towards the short.
@ thanks that makes sense. Appreciate your response. Really like your videos.
Great review, I got LW & SW after watching previous reviews.
Very cool. How do shortwave, mid-wave, and longwave relate to the terms UVA and UVB?
365nm = UVA or Longwave
310nm = UVB or Midwave
255nm = UVC or Shortwave
Happy New Year! Thx for sharing~
Happy New Years to you as well!
You can get the soft neoprene covers for rifle scopes. Those should work and they aren't very expensive but they will cover the entire flashlight like a bag. And depending on the diameter of the flashlight you can get the flip cap type scope covers. I was lucky and found one that fit my shortwave flashlight.
I will look into those, I like that idea.
Ive hunted for the sodalights and the big uvbeast lights have >30 feet of good throw. Id say if you found a larger one you could see it pop 100 feet away or more
Good video.
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing “ cool work shop .
Great information! Still way out of my league! But I can always dream! And might as well dream of the better if not the best! But it's always great information and the difference between the mid wave and the long wave is impressive enough! Thanks Jared! Always learn a lot from your videos!
It's out of my league as well however I suspect that in the coming years we will see these features spread to other makers lights.
Great informative video. What would be cool if they would make a head set uv light? That way, you could be hands-free.
Maybe someday someone will make something like that but I think it would be pretty heavy.
Great video! You have a great collection of lights...and rocks, minerals, and gems! Lol. I'd really love to get a light that can emit multiple frequencies and at variable intensity. Right now I have two and I go through my specimen collection all the time; it's fun!
Let me know if you have a P.O. Box, and I'll send you some nifty samples from California. Take care!
I had been asked that a fair number of times when showing prototypes for this light. I don't think it makes sense quite yet for the 255nm and 310nm since they're considerably weaker than the 365nm. I also wasn't sure if the ramping feature would confuse people. Could be something for the future though!
I hope my like and comment helps you get a sweet flashlight 🔦 nice video.
Awesome!!! 🥳 🎉 🪅 🎊 💯
Thank you!
I've been playing with filters and UV chips. I'm frustrated that there's no true invisible light. It doesn't make sense to me why not? If the eye can't see UV, and the filters remove 99% of VIS, enough filters should be able to defeat the eye, but there's still so much bluish-white lumination.
As someone who is a consumer of these things and not a maker, I feel like this question or statement is above my pay grade to answer.
It's because the light output by these LEDs is a spectrum shaped like a bell curve. It's got a peak where it's outputting most of the light. This is represented in datasheets as Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM). There's still a tiny bit of that bell curve that stretches into the visible spectrum. A truly invisible uv light isn't likely because of that but you should be able to do it with infrared. 1300+nm LEDs are commonly available.
@@Raymond-Wu They make filters to cut out the visible end of the bell curve though. But it seems impossible to eliminate it completely for some reason.
@@VersaiOnline That's true but it doesn't completely cut if off 100%. There might still be half a percent to a few percent at those visible wavelengths.
@@Raymond-Wu Right. So if the bell of the UV chip is already
Why do we not have a UV viewer like we do with Infrared, thermal and night vision?
Hello- I am trying to buy a Hi-tech diamond slanted polisher.They are back ordered from Kinglsy North.I watched a video where you can give 10% off for a flat lap.Are they backordered also?
Always a fan of your content!
Looked it up as soon as I saw it, at $375 it's a no brainer...NO!
I thought my Nightcore Gemlight was spendy!
It has a thumb wheel that turns the light up or down, although it's not multiple waves, it's reallya big jump then to just grab another cheap uv light in the spectrum ya want!
Just to expensive at this moment!
Like always anything Lapidary ChaChing!
Thanks for the information 👍
I think you may have missed the point here of the video. It wasn't to try and sell you a light, the point was to show where we have been in the past with these lights and what the future will likely be like.
5 or 6 years ago, this wasn't even a possibility and now it is, that's the point.
@CurrentlyRockhounding Totally got that, everything evolves, in the product world it's from necessity and or competition, to anyone viewing tho, it comes down to the final throw, as in your commentary, $...
I like you have multiple lights, I use them often, although we all see these lights getting smaller over the years, less expensive, it's only a matter of time to not only see a light..."Pun intended" but to see a light that has all the spectrums,but with all the fancy dimmers, sliders, gauges, & blinking!
However let's note that ANY segment on a NEW product is going to be viewed as..." should I purchase" by the viewers, even if your intentions aren't to endorse or not SALES that's exactly what such a segment does!
Other comments reveal that...
"I'm gonna get one" said seen!
Sure the technical issues are a topic, however in the end, every viewer will come to the same conclusion...WORTH!
Thanks again for showing the light, it's kewls, needs some refining, mainstream charging as you said one of them, packing backup batteries is a BOO these days!
Love the channel ❤️
Really digging the channel, new sub here. I just started my own page and having a blast with it. Keep up the good work and be safe.
$365 is way out of my price range.
It is also out of my price range but new technology becomes old eventually and with that, the price comes down.
@@CurrentlyRockhounding You are correct sir.
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Oh heck no! A BIG NOPE from me on that “full wave” handheld - with the buttons up front on the side ffs. That button placement design makes people conflate them with regular flashlights and tend to flash others in the face with it. Safety glasses don’t even block shortwave.
I'm sorry but this really sounds like a user error on the behalf of people you know. I have never shined a UV light in someone's eyes or my own for that matter.
Both my normal glasses and my safety glasses block 254/255nm UVC shortwave light. I'm not sure who told you that safety glasses do not block shortwave but they do. Also, most of the sellers of UV lights sell the glasses as well.
I'm happy to post some photos of my glasses blocking it in my community tab on the channel if it's helpful to you or if you don't believe me.