Clear UV dye?

techun

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• Mar 12, 2008

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Do they sell any clear UV dyes? I need it to be perfectly clear for a college project we're working on. Every group needs to fill up snapple bottles with water and move them with a conveyor belt. We want to do this, then at the end light up the bottles with UV LED's to make each bottle a different color, or just surprise everyone with having the water suddenly turn green etc.

thanks

 

Adragontattoo

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• Mar 12, 2008

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UV leds are not very effective at illuminating UV items clearly FYI.

There are some dyes but most will have a tint of the color that cant be gotten rid of.

 

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techun

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Anyone else have any more information?

 

kbtat2

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I used invisible blue from frozencpu.com and with the ratio I used it was indeed clear.
Maybe check there?

 

Temo Vryce

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Tonic Water will glow under black lights. It's pretty clear and if you let it go flat it looks just like plain water.

 

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you could try some dye-lite. it has a slight yellow color in bottle, but only at real high concentrations. You only need 3-4 drops in a liter and it will show up nicely under UV without any noticeable discoloration.

 

Freaky_friday

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Here ya go...

The Feser 1 clear/UV Blue fluid looks promising. I'm still researching but I saw their little video (non-conductive!) and it's probably what I'll be using in my system.