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    Strip of ultraviolet (Black light) LEDs - do 5V ones exist?

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    • GtBFilmsG
      GtBFilms
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      This is a hardware question rather than specifically Retropie, but I hope someone can advise - I'm looking for a strip of UV LEDs, the sort of sticky strip you can use for marquee lights in cabs, but as I'm trying to avoid another power supply, I'm hoping to run them off a 5V USB port. The only ultra violet LEDs in a strip I can find appear to be 12V ones, I', wondering if what I'm looking for perhaps just doesn't exist?

      Has anyone seen these?

      Thanks

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      • edmaul69E
        edmaul69 @GtBFilms
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        @GtBFilms is this what you are looking for? http://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=5v+led+strip&isNewKw=1&isRefine=true&mfs=GOCLK&acimp=0&_trksid=p2056088.m2428.l1313.TR3.TRC2.X5v+led+strip&sqp=5v+led+strip

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        • DorkVonWaterfallD
          DorkVonWaterfall @edmaul69
          last edited by

          @edmaul69 said in Strip of ultraviolet (Black light) LEDs - do 5V ones exist?:

          @GtBFilms is this what you are looking for? http://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=5v+led+strip&isNewKw=1&isRefine=true&mfs=GOCLK&acimp=0&_trksid=p2056088.m2428.l1313.TR3.TRC2.X5v+led+strip&sqp=5v+led+strip

          RGB and UV are not the same....

          01001110 01101111 01100010 01101111 01100100 01111001 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01110011 00100000 01101001 01100000 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110011 01100010 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100001

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          • edmaul69E
            edmaul69 @DorkVonWaterfall
            last edited by

            @DorkVonWaterfall so just refining the ebay search to just uv. Is this what you are looking for?

            http://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC0.A0.H0.X5v+led+strip.TRS1&_nkw=5v+led+strip+uv

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            • GtBFilmsG
              GtBFilms @edmaul69
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              @edmaul69 Nice one, thanks, although not flexible a couple of these bars might just do the trick!

              http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aquarium-UV-Lamp-5V-USB-Ultraviolet-Filter-Water-Cleaner-Sterilizer-LED-Strip-/222418630711?var=&hash=item33c92ef837:m:mQQj5Jm3_-hIDcX78m76G0Q

              Used to be these were easy to get hold of, every gamers PC was decked out with UV sensitive cables and lights and a big perspex side window - maybe I'm stuck in the 90s!

              Thanks for the link!

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              • edmaul69E
                edmaul69 @GtBFilms
                last edited by edmaul69

                @GtBFilms i had uv florescent bulbs in mine. And had bought uv reactive motherboard paints. Oh i remember the good old days of making your pc look cool. And you used it for many years. Nowadays people just buy gutter garbage they end up throwing away in 6 months.

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