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What to do with an oxidizer tube? (ionizing UV!)

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Inducktion
Mon Oct 10 2011, 06:15PM Print
Inducktion Registered Member #3637 Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
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I took apart an oxidizer thing from a hot tub we're getting rid of, and there was a tube inside of it. The filaments (there were two on each end) are long gone. However, the tube itself still has a vacuum. (the getter is still a blackish color, not white). The case the oxidizer came in also has a "ballast" for the tube, it looks sort of like a transformer, and is rated at 120 VAC 1 amp.

Since the filaments are toast, what can I do with the tube, since it still has a usable vacuum? Some people suggested making X-rays with it. What else is there I can do with the tube?

Link2

It makes ionizing UV rays...
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Tetris
Tue Oct 11 2011, 02:15AM
Tetris Registered Member #4016 Joined: Thu Jul 21 2011, 01:52AM
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XD yes be a Nikola Tesla and make X-Rays. Nikola Tesla did a lot of work with that. Maybe inject a halogen gas and a drop of mercury... connect to Vsource? :P
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klugesmith
Tue Oct 11 2011, 07:01AM
klugesmith Registered Member #2099 Joined: Wed Apr 29 2009, 12:22AM
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For the picture of your lighted tube, did it start up with its regular ballast, even though its filaments are open?

I bet it's mercury vapor lamp, not unlike an ordinary hot-cathode fluorescent lamp. Here are the differences:
1) no fluorescent phosphor coating inside the tube, because we don't need visible light output.
2) tube is made of fused quartz, for transparency to 254 nm and maybe to 185 nm UV light, both of which don't penetrate far in most materials.
254 nm kills illuminated cells.
185 nm is absorbed by air and generates ozone. The ozone can kill cells not in the line of sight. Dissolved in water, it can also precipitate some hard-water ions. Ozonators are popular accessories for well-water storage tanks in the mountains around where I live.

I don't think the lamp is any good for making x-rays. The mercury makes it a pretty good electrical conductor, so it could not sustain the necessary voltage drop without a destructive amount of current.

If you're scrapping the rest of the system, I'd be interested in the lamp and ballast. Would join some blacklight lamps, an EPROM eraser, and a couple of shortwave Mineralights. And a Pen-ray lamp. But yours might be the only one intended to make ozone. Can you give us the make & model of the lamp, ballast, or the "oxidizer" thing? Thanks!
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Inducktion
Tue Oct 11 2011, 10:50AM
Inducktion Registered Member #3637 Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
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Klugesmith wrote ...

For the picture of your lighted tube, did it start up with its regular ballast, even though its filaments are open?

I bet it's mercury vapor lamp, not unlike an ordinary hot-cathode fluorescent lamp. Here are the differences:
1) no fluorescent phosphor coating inside the tube, because we don't need visible light output.
2) tube is made of fused quartz, for transparency to 254 nm and maybe to 185 nm UV light, both of which don't penetrate far in most materials.
254 nm kills illuminated cells.
185 nm is absorbed by air and generates ozone. The ozone can kill cells not in the line of sight. Dissolved in water, it can also precipitate some hard-water ions. Ozonators are popular accessories for well-water storage tanks in the mountains around where I live.

I don't think the lamp is any good for making x-rays. The mercury makes it a pretty good electrical conductor, so it could not sustain the necessary voltage drop without a destructive amount of current.

If you're scrapping the rest of the system, I'd be interested in the lamp and ballast. Would join some blacklight lamps, an EPROM eraser, and a couple of shortwave Mineralights. And a Pen-ray lamp. But yours might be the only one intended to make ozone. Can you give us the make & model of the lamp, ballast, or the "oxidizer" thing? Thanks!

I used an inverter I made out of a ZVS and a self made HV transformer. (transformer puts out less than 1 kV I'm guessing)

And, yes, the bulb puts out quite a bit of ozone. I'll get the model number of the oxidizer thing later today, hopefully. (the bulb itself I know doesn't have any number on it)
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radhoo
Tue Oct 11 2011, 11:11AM
radhoo Registered Member #1938 Joined: Sun Jan 25 2009, 12:44PM
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you cannot make any x-rays with that tube, because it is just an UV lamp, probably containing low pressure mercury vapors. for x-rays you would need a "harder" vacuum and no mercury or other "obstacles" inside the tube.

now that the filament is gone, just use it with your inverter, eg. for germicidal purposes.
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Inducktion
Tue Oct 11 2011, 03:14PM
Inducktion Registered Member #3637 Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Could I get phosphor from some fluorescent lights and see if they glow using the lamp, since that's basically the same principle behind fluorescent tubes? (though, I wonder what the color would look like!)
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Wastrel
Wed Oct 12 2011, 08:25PM
Wastrel Registered Member #4095 Joined: Thu Sept 15 2011, 03:19PM
Location: England.
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The light produced by such tubes is damaging to eyes. I figured best to make this explicit. A getter does not make much sense, this might be sputtered metal from tube operation.
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klugesmith
Wed Oct 12 2011, 10:00PM
klugesmith Registered Member #2099 Joined: Wed Apr 29 2009, 12:22AM
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Alexander wrote ...

The light produced by such tubes is damaging to eyes. I figured best to make this explicit. A getter does not make much sense, this might be sputtered metal from tube operation.
I agree with both points.

As for eye safety, it doesn't help to avoid looking at the lighted tube.
What counts is the distance between tube and your exposed corneas, and duration of exposure.
Symptoms of overexposure are irritation of the corneas, developing after a few hours and taking a while to heal.
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Any ordinary eyeglasses or safety glasses, especially those with glass lenses, will substantially attenuate the short-wave UV (UVC) wavelengths which carry the great majority of the tube's radiant output.
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Inducktion
Thu Oct 13 2011, 01:24AM
Inducktion Registered Member #3637 Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
Location: Buffalo, NY
Posts: 1068
Well... It looks exactly like how a getter looks; silvery, with a little bit of white near the top (I guess some air got in from manufacturing?)

And, a few days later from fooling with the tube, my eyes and skin are both fine. Nothing hurts, or itches. ^^

Also, Kludge, are you still interested in the tube?
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Forty
Thu Oct 13 2011, 03:36AM
Forty Registered Member #3888 Joined: Sun May 15 2011, 09:50PM
Location: Erie, PA
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might make a nice uv source for uv curing epoxies and etch resists.
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