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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: uv watch
- Message-ID: <1683499B0.CCEB001@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:55:24 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.180929.20034@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Jul27.212631.854@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <1992Jul24.180929.20034@midway.uchicago.edu>,
- betsy@rainbow.uchicago.edu (Betsy Weatherhead) writes:
- >
- >I'm sure I'm not crazy. About four or five years ago I saw a
- >watch for sale that measured uv radiation--or so it claimed.
- >I told some friends in the field this and was told I was
- >crazy. Does anyone know anything about this watch? Does
- >anyone have one? Who is the manufacturer? Are they still
- >available?
- >
- The Amature Scientist column in Scientific American had a project to
- measure UV radiation not too long ago. Once you got a calibrated sensor
- and the light filter combination, the rest looked pretty easy. They
- had a source for the sensor and filter.
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- As I recall, it was a selenium solar cell and a filter similar to those
- used in photography. (but useless for photography) The cell is much
- more sensitive to blue than to UV so a fairly high performance filter
- was necessary to keep blue light leakage from swamping the UV.
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- Mike.Coyne@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu
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