Deuterium UV Lamp Test [FAIL] and Theory

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  • Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
  • This is a short walk-through on deuterium UV lamp theory and a test of the lamp in operation from its rather special power supply. PSU failed. Lamp failed. Complete fail. The lamp comes from the teardown of a Hitachi L7450 HPLC Diode-Array-Detector ( • Hitachi L7450 HPLC Dio... ). HPLC is short for High Performance Liquid Chromatography. The DAD uses UV light to detect a color spectrum through a liquid flow cell into a linear detector.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 24

  • @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk
    @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk  2 роки тому +1

    Original teardown and all pictures from that: kaizerpowerelectronics.dk/teardown/hitachi-l7450-hplc-diode-array-detector-teardown/

  • @nonamedelete9132
    @nonamedelete9132 2 роки тому +4

    Plot twist: The switch is defective, the lamp is fine.

  • @abeleski
    @abeleski 2 роки тому +2

    Don't despair. I specialise in failed projects

  • @loukashareangas4420
    @loukashareangas4420 2 роки тому +3

    Do you have other deuterium lamps in your parts bins?

    • @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk
      @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk  2 роки тому +2

      No :(

    • @loukashareangas4420
      @loukashareangas4420 2 роки тому +5

      @@KaizerPowerElectronicsDk If you want I could send you one, I find them from time to time at a specific recycling bin I frequent...

  • @chuckvanderbildt
    @chuckvanderbildt 2 роки тому +1

    I like the simple solution you came up with for testing the lamp. I have a deuterium lamp lying around also and may emulate your method to test that one!

  • @Basement-Science
    @Basement-Science 2 роки тому +3

    Well, since it's already broken.. maybe you could get it to start with a classic fluorescent tube igniter circuit. Should do plenty of voltage without too much risk of it blowing up.
    Anyway, it was interesting nonetheless.

  • @Abishek_Muthian
    @Abishek_Muthian 2 роки тому +2

    Failures add value, It teaches what not to do.

  • @SuperBrainAK
    @SuperBrainAK 2 роки тому +1

    I still think it was a cool video! we gotta make it glow somehow, even if it is just orange from the air!

  • @EiskalterEngel13
    @EiskalterEngel13 2 роки тому

    anyway a good and informativ video!

  • @CliveChamberlain946
    @CliveChamberlain946 2 роки тому

    I stilled a lot! Thank you 👍

  • @hobbesip1
    @hobbesip1 2 роки тому

    UV blue balls :(. But I understand the lesson here and grateful for the reality check. 👍

  • @johnnycash4034
    @johnnycash4034 2 роки тому +3

    Cool
    Try using a hv spark to ignite since it's probably busted anyway.

    • @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk
      @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk  2 роки тому +2

      Violenty igniting heavy hydrogen was not on my wish list that day :)

    • @EgonSorensen
      @EgonSorensen 2 роки тому

      @@KaizerPowerElectronicsDk - For deuterium and tritium, the optimal reaction rates occur at temperatures higher than 100 million °C
      It would be interesting if you could beat ITER on fusion, but it's better overall to avoid ionizing UV radiation; equipment such as plastics also gets damaged, it's not 'only' your eyes and skin :ø)

  • @tuopeeks
    @tuopeeks 2 роки тому +1

    You could use one of your small Tesla Coils to check the gas condition. It may be possible to use the technique to start the lamp too. Although I think you are probably right as the lamps should at least try and start with the pulse from the cap. I think I used a higher ignition voltage (approx. 1kV) from a smaller capacitor.

    • @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk
      @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk  2 роки тому +3

      That was a great idea to excite it from a HF field from a Tesla coil. I can still try that out. Not going for higher voltage was mostly based on the original power supply, as it was specified for a 325V pulse for just mere 1us.

    • @tuopeeks
      @tuopeeks 2 роки тому

      @@KaizerPowerElectronicsDk Good point not to have too high an energy pulse to start. Sometime in old eol lamps where the cathode work function is poor a higher pulse voltage can coax a it to start.

    • @chuckvanderbildt
      @chuckvanderbildt 2 роки тому

      @@KaizerPowerElectronicsDk One problem i have noticed with deuterium lamps is that, as the lamps age, the starting voltage required to get it going does increase. I have one instrument that now only starts when i put it behind a variac, to provide it with at least 240+ VAC (raising the voltage on the starter winding above 400v) but it still provides useful output once it gets going.

    • @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk
      @KaizerPowerElectronicsDk  2 роки тому

      @@chuckvanderbildt Thanks for the suggestion. I will try with a step up transformer.

    • @gth042
      @gth042 2 роки тому

      @@KaizerPowerElectronicsDk Tig welder with HF start laying around? Either way, stay safe (as usual)! :) :)