How Long Does Glow In The Dark Powder Glow?
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Glow in the dark powder mixed with epoxy is an easy way to make your fret markers glow or it can be added as a creative inlay on your guitar project. But how long does it last? Let's find out.
Hehe..i have already done it many times after i saw how expensive the luminlay side dots are.Epoxy is a safe bet with this but if you want..maximum glow its better to pack as much powder into the hole as possible...and then wick some very thin superglue until it covers and solidifies it.
Man, I swear that many times I was thinking about something and in a short time you came out with a video of that :)
in my experience the super bright glow pigments like lit or starglow fade a lot quicker. (unsurprisingly) the initial glow is really impressive there, easily visible in daylight, but after a few minutes the more subdued glow powder is more visible, and wining 1-2h they have evened out.
PS: a great alternative to embedding LEDs and wiring are optical fibers. not as flexible as wire, but much more failsafe than any electronics. combining that with a UV LED and phasphorescent or fluorescent pigment gives an amazing effect too. bright glowing neon colors without external blacklight.
I have used both LEDs and fiber optics. LEDs are a pain and fiber optics are much easier to work with. That being said, I refuse to work with either. The pigments I use continue to glow for many hours. Yes, they do fade, but if your eyes are dark adapted, you can see the glow for 4-6 hours after the initial charge. A better alternative to all of these approaches is to learn how to play in the dark.
As you described being dark adapted plays a significant roll in your ability to see the glow. When playing or doing anything in a relatively dark room occasional flashes of ambient light is my real enemy.
the one called europium glows 20 hrs...the green/yellow is always the brightest/longest bcz of where it falls on the light spectrum
This was a fun experiment, surprised it lasted as long as it did. I gather there are some europium doped glow in the dark paints that are supposed to last even longer, but the strontium stuff seems more than sufficient for guitar purposes.
A better way to capture this type of data is to point a light meter (photometer), like what photographers, and videographers use, at a glow in the dark target. Have a camera pointed at the photometer's indicator, and capture that data. You'll need a lightbox to house the test sample, and darkness facing side of the photometer in, and have a running timer next to the photometer's indicator, and capture that data. Should be way more accurate. Thanks for the video.
Guitarist / Astronomer / and the best Photographer I can afford here: Cameras aren't typically good at picking up reds--such as ultraviolet--though you can easily get cameras off the shelf that are particularly engineered to pickup reds better. Your eyes are a bit better at seeing reds; in fact our eyes evolved to see best underwater because that's our biological ancestry.
So I'm not surprised you saw a glow even long after the camera didn't.
There's also a matter of ISO -- basically how light sensitive the medium such as film or the camera's sensor is set. Your eyes adjust according to the light conditions, but with a camera I would have to set it up so it was effectively night vision to pickup the slight glow at the end of the test. It would be a very grainy shot, but basically you would see the glow too bright to even tell what you were looking at in the beginning, fading to a more reasonable level of brightness.
It's like shooting a photo of the Moon. On full auto the camera is goiing to adjust to the scene as a whole to find the general medium, in which case the Moon or other bright object is just a blob of light in a pitch black, starless background. But if I manually set it to get a great shot of the Moon it's going to beautiful.
Great experiment...
You are sceptical about what marketing people are telling you? Now that was a good one ;)
One creative idea: can you use your uv flashlight to partially cure the solares lacquer of one color and then create effects with stencils and differently colored solares lacquer?
Go fo it.
Thanks for the follow-up info! How weird that I am getting ready to do side markers and a headstock logo on my latest project :)
So 8 hours should be fine & be a great idea for those curb address paintings?🤔
Thank you for your honesty, I deeply liked the video❤
What camera did you use? Depending on the make, sensor, and lens, cameras can actually see more than the human eye can in low light 🤔
It was a Nikon D3300 with the stock 18-55mm kit lens.
The best way to use this stuff is to used the stones and cut down the stones into a thick shape that you can deeply inlay into the wood. The smaller the particles are the less effective the product is.
Thanks for the tips as always Chris! 🎸🎸👍
Underrated video, glad I found it... Wonder if you could mix it with paint...
Gracias!
Appreciate the info 👍
I love your videos! Thank you for posting them!
Do you think the powders would work with a thin CA glue? For example, could one pack the powders into a crack or inlay cavity, and then drip some CA on top?
Yes, they do. I prefer epoxy because CA glue has potent fumes.
Highline Guitars Thanks for the reply!
Oh!! I didn’t even think about the fumes. Yes. Good thinking!
So... do you find the viscosity of the epoxy to be too thick? Do you use anything to control the application process and prevent a mess?
You said this can be charged two ways, UV and natural light. I was looking to use this in a coating for my wood stairs. It has no natural light, is there any reaction to artificial normal lights led or incandescent?
Almost none. You should consider LED strips. Motion activated.
Thanks appreciate it great information have a blessed day
Do they ever loose their ability to be luminescent? Like after several years? I remember as a kid glow in the dark stuff seemed to weaken over time. But that was the early 90s maybe they use better materials now?
Tests show that strontium aluminate glow powders continue to work for at least 20 years.
Can you share with the powder that you used/recommend. Thank you!
I got it off eBay. I don't remember which one.
I thought blue was the least efficient. Or red was the least efficient but blue was worse than green. The one that if you were to make a bunch of watches and sign them in the Sun and then go to sleep, the green will be the brightest by morning. What that means, I don't really know.
What about luminlay inlays?
I started out using Luminlay and it works great, however, it's kind of pricey and has to be shipped from Japan. I don't think the glow from Luminlay last any longer than what I used, which is the same material. Also, with Luminlay, you're limited to round dots.