Ive found that my photosensitized boards are quite sensitive to light, so much so that I can only have one small bulb on in the other side of the room, which makes it very hard to see.
I was thinking of getting a 1W red LED and mounting it on the ceiling above my workbench. This won't expose the boards will it?
It needn't even cost $5... A red cellophane cover over a normal bulb should work fine, I think. Just don't have the cellophane too close to the bulb... <runs away from impending meltdown>
It needn't even cost $5... A red cellophane cover over a normal bulb should work fine, I think. Just don't have the cellophane too close to the bulb... <runs away from impending meltdown>
Sure, but you have to make sure your cellophane blocks all the wavelengths your board is sensisitve to. How do you verify this? You don't. You buy a $5 safelight The same goes for the red LED. Make sure it doesn't produce sensible wavelengths... buy a real safelight
Talk to any photographer who does his own darkroom work, you'll get stories on how they tried to paint light bulbs, enclose it in red plastic boxes... It always ends up smelling funny :lol: The red LED's a less dangerous option, but still no match for the "real" thing in my humble opinion, which is just a bulb painted the right way and guaranteed not to smell or produce toxic fumes.
You and me are in the same boat. It seems to be economical, and best of all NEAT!
Ever since switching, I managed to put two 0.2mm wide tracks together with a 0.5mm spacing in between them. So far, I have only used a quarter of a transparency, and that $1.50 is lasting me a while.