UVC. The green banana test.

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This experiment was inspired by another video where someone discovered that bananas changed colour while being irradiated with UVC light.
Here's the video that inspired this test:-
• A hint that your uvc l...
I thought I'd do a test on some bananas with a variety of fake and real UVC lights.
This test was more of an LED versus real UVC test. I'm not sure what the precise scientific spectral response of bananas is.
Note that the camera was not damaged by the UVC light, as it has a glass lens that blocks the most destructive wavelengths.
The LEDs definitely burned the banana with heat and not UVC energy. The LEDs are being run very hard for visual effect.
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@tigercat3864 4 года назад

Now that you have a calibrated test platform, how about trying some cheap vs expensive "UV" glasses and goggles to see which really protects your banana.

@Muonium1 4 года назад

Everything's going to block it. It's practically impossible NOT to block it unless you're using fused quartz

@rogerhargreaves2272 4 года назад

Epic. Some cheap protective glasses are rubbish, it’s worth spending £50 on the correct wavelength pair. You only have one set of eyes. Though I must admit the glasses I buy are for laser flash protection.

@Muonium1 4 года назад

@@rogerhargreaves2272 It is definitely absolutely NOT worth spending $50 dollars on a pair of goggles for UV protecting capability unless you are talking about laser radiation. Literally any $2 pair of polycarbonate goggles will block practically everything below the visible range and are perfectly fine for incoherent common UV source blocking like for germicidal lamps like this. UV laser blocking is more complex, it's worth buying from reputable sources and spending more in that case.

@rogerhargreaves2272 4 года назад

Muonium - I can’t agree with you more on that one. Mine are for use with powerful lasers; so it’s not worth compromising. I get specialist ones shipped from the States.

@karhukivi 4 года назад

@@Muonium1 They don't block everything. A simple test is to use a piece of paper marked with a fluorescent marker and then place the glasses or goggles between the lamp and the paper. Even the expensive ones pass a small amount of UV. For lasers, you are correct - it is important to buy the best ones to protect your eyes as even a short flash can be disastrous.

@kingcode420 4 года назад

I appreciate that after discovering the led lamp was particularly hot Clive touched several more times to make sure

@AAAyyyGGG 4 года назад

He will from now on use it to heat his chilly home!

@TheRealColBosch 4 года назад

Like all tradesmen, his hands are 99% callus at this point.

@michaelthibault7930 4 года назад

Real science requires verification.

@mistwolf 4 года назад

And was surprised every time!

@alanlansdell7533 4 года назад

Wet paint syndrome.

@simonmikkelsen 4 года назад

Now combine the hot dog cooker with the banana frying LED lamp.

@patrickmalone1373 4 года назад

Or just combine the hot dogger with the banana

@jetjazz05 4 года назад

...and you've got the Trump and Co Covid repair kit.

@hempwick8203 4 года назад

crispy inside and out. let's do a steak

@SpecialEDy 4 года назад

Microwave: Cooks from the inside Ionizing Radiation & High Current Shunt hotdog cooker: Plasma cooks from the inside and fries from the outside

@wobblysauce 4 года назад

Cooked in the middle and crunchy on the outside.

@peterzingler6221 4 года назад

Cool but scary. Imagine the effect on human banana

@GRBtutorials 4 года назад

It’s not that bad, really. Except for your eyes, UVC isn’t a big concern because it can’t penetrate very deep. However, UVC mercury vapor lamps also emit UVB and create ozone.

@jonnywilson9117 4 года назад

@@GRBtutorials Wait, the UVC lamp on the left can't penetrate very deep? Can't that one burn skin?

@dsloop3907 4 года назад

@@jonnywilson9117 Yes, that one can fry your banana.

@davelordy 4 года назад

@@GRBtutorials _"UVC mercury vapor lamps also emit UVB and create ozone"_ A lot of modern UV-C mercury vapour lamps filter out 185nm with doped glass (I think they use gallium) so no emission line around 185nm, so no Ozone.

@GRBtutorials 4 года назад

Jonny Wilson UVC can’t penetrate skin enough to get to live cells (but it’s still dangerous, especially if you have an open wound). Maybe it can burn the outer layer of dead skin, though. However, UVB can, and they produce a fair amount of it.

@Vokabre 4 года назад

This is probably the most affordable UV lamp test out there, actually. Now i understand why, when bananas were an expensive rarity in Soviet times, also sold green, you were supposed to put them in dark place for longevity. Previously i thought this was to avoid heat, and not exposure to sunlight. This technically could also make bananas suitable as a medium for photography using a pinhole camera with sunlight exposure. Or a medium for banana art, in which a stensil is put on a banana and exposed with UV light. Oh, the bananossibilities.

@BRUXXUS 4 года назад

Now I really want to see banana photography....

@urugulu1656 4 года назад

@@BRUXXUS get ready for veeeeeeery long exposure times

@bengeorge4437 4 года назад

You could print black and white film negatives on a clear film and make a banana skin canvas. Then put the film with the image on top of the banana canvas and expose it to UV light to "develop" the image

@EzeePosseTV 4 года назад

A few decades ago I did banana skin photo's using black n white photo negatives, placed over banana skin exposed to a small UVC lamp for 5 to 10 minutes. Got some cracking good photo's though after several shots with the same negative, the negative fades quickly. Was a fun and rewarding little experiment to do.

@bengeorge4437 4 года назад

@@EzeePosseTV sounds fun

@sonotdown998 4 года назад

Will now be saying “burnt the banana” instead of “sh*t the bed” or “screwed the pooch.”

@BloodAsp 4 года назад

Count me in.

@reggiep75 4 года назад

Tanned the 'nana!

@robertcartier5088 4 года назад

@@reggiep75 Ok, now you just sound like you're -beating- spanking the elderly! lol

@MadScientist267 3 года назад

Clive, I found the four 5 year olds lurking the channel...

@DurokSubaka 4 года назад

It never fails to amaze me you always say things that have never been said in the total existence of mankind "if you mask off a banana"

@SenseiRaichuss 3 года назад

try looking up the channel "AvE"

@pabloi 4 года назад

I've been looking for a home-made test like this for weeks! thank you!

@jdisaster2127 4 года назад

This is fantastic, I bought a toothbrush sanitizing light from a retailer in China, and I have always been skeptical if it was actual UVC. Thanks!

@slm60uk 4 года назад

I brought one of those for only about £3 on eBay and was also skeptical about it's UVC claim. However, when I put EPROMs directly on top of the mini UV tubes it erased the EPROMs in about 10 to 20 minutes. EPROMs require UVC to be erased so I guess the UVC claim is true. I just hope the clear plastic clam shell covering the tubes blocks the dangerous C spectrum!

@sleeptyper 4 года назад

@@slm60uk If they are mercury vapor tubes, they are genuine UVC lamps.

@dedhi100 4 года назад

@@slm60uk EPROM can also be erased with 400 nm UV (UV-A). Thus your test does not really show that is a UV-C source (285 nm and below)

@edgeeffect 4 года назад

@@slm60uk yeah... I've got a crappy ordinary UV-A (maybe B, certainty not C) light for erasing EPROMs.

@edgeeffect 4 года назад

@@sleeptyper not if they've got a glass, rather than quartz, envelope.... as the glass will block the UVC

@AltMarc 4 года назад

What really works great to see UVC, is a broken fluorescent light tube, but you need to shine on the phosphor directly without passing through the glass.

@tidalwave71 3 года назад

I need more detailed instructions on this 🤣

@MrWhite.209 4 года назад

I do encourage your videos as it is a joke how many people are thinking that these DISCO lights are germicidal. Thank you for your information as it is a great help. I know alot about uvc lights as I used to work in a petshop where these lights (uvc lights) where used for getting rid of contaminants in pond water. Thanks to your videos I know more then I did about uvc that it can harm the skin and its benifits against germs. Keep up the good work Clive as u think it is making an impact. Many thanks James ❤️

@MrWhite.209 4 года назад

@Brandon Smith i ment encourage 😂😂 auto correct as usual

@MrWhite.209 4 года назад

@Brandon Smith I have edited the mistake

@BaronSamedi1959 4 года назад

Discolights aren't germicidal? You mean, I have been goind to the disco all my life for health reasons and it was all a waste?

@SpecialEDy 4 года назад

I think they're all technically "germicidal", but light gets exponentially better at killing as it gets closer to UVA?

@bstrickler 4 года назад

My concern is how hot the fluorescent light may get. It's possible that the heat from the fluorescent light gets warm enough to discolor the skin of the banana. To isolate this, I'd suggest keeping the lights a few inches off the banana, and use a fan to blow cool air across it, to make sure heat didn't cause it to discolor.

@reginaldpoofta5 2 года назад

I’m pretty sure banana skin became brown because of the heat. That happens when you heat it up. I’ve tested my UVC light with nana but the distance was much larger and it didn’t turn brown.

@agvulpine 4 года назад

Apparently purple disco lights also give you purple fingers! Thank you for providing us with all these UVC videos. I know it was initially against your better judgement but we kept pressing.

@fanplant 4 года назад

I have the lamp on the left. I read somewhere recently UV-C harms plants. I have an aloe vera plant as well as a few other house plants that have't been well and I couldn't think why, yep I burnt them, they have gotten better since.

@gonzostwin1 4 года назад

Cover with brown bag before using. Also

@drkastenbrot 4 года назад

A UV-C lamp is highly dangerous and not to be used for anything but sterilization/desinfection. Plants prefer the visible spectrum, ebay has lots of red-violet "grow lights" which are a bit more efficient than white lights because they leave out the green-bluish component. UV-C damages plants but they should recover if it wasnt too much damage. UV in general is not beneficial for plant growth. Grow lights are what you are looking for.

@fanplant 4 года назад

@@drkastenbrot yes I understand. The plants just happened to be in the same room I was treating. I knew about dogs and cats and I wear the proper glasses to go in and out. There seemed to be a delay in the plants getting injured and I think they may have had a growth spurt at first followed by darkening of the aloe and palm fronds falling off.

@hempwick8203 4 года назад

i hope you ventilate lol

@JamieA242 4 года назад

im glad to hear your plants are ok x

@SpecialEDy 4 года назад

Hit em with the old "ionizing radiation!"

@johnjordan3126 4 года назад

I found my wife's old Pollenex Toothbrush Sanitizer yesterday, complete with a warning label that it uses UV and that eye and skin damage could occur if used with the cover off. It has a GTL3 size bulb and a 20VAC power adapter. I "borrowed" it to erase 80's "windowed" UV EPROMS. She can have it back now ... unless I can figure out how to jam a banana in there.

@mikecowen6507 4 года назад

@ShiDaFu Now you know. If you still have any older devices with them in it, you might want to make sure their labels haven't dried and fallen off. ANY stray light could slowly degrade the programming.

@Dr_Mario2007 4 года назад

I wonder if the germicidal lamp is actually heating that tape on the UVC-irradiated banana, causing the peel to turn brown in the area of the tape covering. Either that or the camera got a bit confused differing green color from yellow background. Still, this test is actually valid. Many UV-C LEDs I have seen (and considering buying) are up to 200 milliwatts which is honestly nothing to write home about, in fact they are dimmer than large Mercury UV-C lamp (which is a bit weird because some powerful UV-A LEDs already outperform the 40 feet blacklight fluorescent lamps - Nichia makes decent blacklight LEDs like NVSU233, alas).

@Fomites 4 года назад

Thanks Clive! I've been wondering how to test some of the supposed UV-C lights I bought for sanitising. UV meters are expensive.

@willsmith6215 3 года назад

Neat idea: I propose heat from the lamp are skewing results. you should retry without direct contact/proximity

@DavidBoycePiano 4 года назад

Thank you for another excellent video, Big Clive. I see that there are several good RU-vid videos now, about fake UVC lamps. Some have tested with proper UVC meters too. Hopefully Amazon and Ebay will stop listing these scam LED lamps.

@ZombieBenderReturns 4 года назад

Awesome thanks, I noticed that happened to my bananas too, nice to confirm I have a working lamp. This has been the only place if found with concise information on these lights. Most aren’t very clear what they’re talking about and don’t go into the danger at all. 👍

@Scrufboy 4 года назад

Was trying to say something clever in regards to testing that lamp I mentioned previously... Wife then gasps... Says "Shoot! We forgot to buy bananas... Thanks Clive!

@thesupersimon 4 года назад

Thanks for your tests. One thing i'd like to add is that it may be more convincing if you can separate the 3 lamps (or put them far away from each other) so that the interference among them could be as minimal as possible.

@james0x2a 4 года назад

Thanks for posting this! Have you tested true UVA/UVB lights to show the contrast with UVC (not just the fake, purple or NUV lights)?

@jimlagraff4989 4 года назад

Wow! UVC banana looks just like my presidents face. But now I'm greedy and I want to see different wattage bananas.

@jimlagraff4989 4 года назад

btw, I've been seeing corncob UVC advertised on Amazon for $100. I haven't checked but at that price I'm guessing they"re legit

@benbaselet2026 4 года назад

@@jimlagraff4989 At least on ebay you will often find the same fake garbage at elevated prices. Paying more is no guarantee for anything except losing more money.

@LtKernelPanic 4 года назад

If it's a corncob style it's fake. Real UVC LEDs are on a brass base and cost about $5 USD each last I checked.

@tonywalton1464 4 года назад

@@LtKernelPanic There's a corncob on Geek advertised as "UV-C 295nm". Lol, as I believe the young folk say.

@jimlagraff4989 4 года назад

LtKernelPanic Says who? If you think Amazon and ebay have the same standards your wrong. In addition, because it costs you $5 a piece doesn't mean it costs a factory $5 per 100,000. Go to Amazon read the description, check the reviews and tell me it's impossible to use a real uvc led in a corncob configuration. It's only natural that the new uvc leds will be offered to consumers in recognizable configurations and this appears to be legit. To think the word corncob automatically means it's fake is ridiculous. Don't believe me though, ask clive.

@tetra3dprint 4 года назад

Great to see this confirmed in another video :D Coincidentally I tried this yesterday with my real UVC booth setup to confirm it was all working, and I am happy to say it is. I eventually got a refund for my fake ones off eBay, although I did have to resort to eBay stepping in after a mandatory 8 days.

@karmveersingh2249 4 года назад

For how much time did you expose the banana to uvc?

@tetra3dprint 4 года назад

@@karmveersingh2249 about an hour and 1ft away. I didn't see the effect until the following day either

@seannot-telling9806 4 года назад

Clive Thank You for all the info that you give us. I ordered one of the Ebay (So called) UVC devices that you had shown. The reason I wanted it was for finding leaks with the dye that you can as to coolant systems in a vehicle. The one I ordered was the black wand style one you showed.

@TD_YT066 4 года назад

A real UVC won't light up fluorescent paints or posters, they're tuned for UVA. They will light up a CF phosphor though, but the glass envelope of a CF is not supposed to pass UVC out from the mercury vapor inside.

@seannot-telling9806 4 года назад

@@TD_YT066 I should of been a little more clear on then being called UVC and not as Clive has said. I ordered it for looking for the leak dyes.

@TD_YT066 4 года назад

@@seannot-telling9806 You want a 425nm UVA, the short 250-200 nm UVC wont excite the dye. www.r744.com/files/pdf_017.pdf

@seannot-telling9806 4 года назад

@@TD_YT066 One of the ones that Clive showed in one of the other videos on this topic is what I got and it makes dye glow very bright. It also works well for cat urine. Do you recall the long black one he showed some time ago? That is the one I got. Nice for dye locating.

@UpcycleElectronics 4 года назад

Mary: "but it's purple" Big Clive: "Mary, my banana"

@Plokman040 4 года назад

Chowder: It's not blue?!

@rcboosted 4 года назад

I also did the same on my newly delivered UVC lamps to make sure it is indeed UVC. A color changing glasses will also tell you if it's UV. Although I did not test with just a high power normal LED.

@PIXscotland 4 года назад

I thought you'd drawn a smiley face on that 🍌.

@Vokabre 4 года назад

Or a "graphic" from the tattoo machine video

@_Piers_ 4 года назад

It really did look like a panda tattoo 🐼

@glitchwalker5422 4 года назад

"Big Clive puts his banana in a UVC light" might have gotten more views.

@TheAllMightyGodofCod 4 года назад

It would!

@kartoffelbrei8090 3 года назад

"Big Clive exposes his banana"

@d0gM3at 4 года назад

Well done. Thanks to the original producer of this test and thank you for passing it along to your viewers who don't want to get scammed by a cheap Chinese ripoff.

@patriciaedsall6035 4 года назад

thank you saw other video and tried but was not sure of time to put lite on the banana to test my lite. this clears that up for me and others am sure.

@davidvanhorn498 4 года назад

"I'm taping my bananna!" Nothing odd about that statement at all. :)

@ManWithBeard1990 4 года назад

Not so very long ago I was wondering why UVC lamps in fridges weren't a thing. This is probably why. I actually read somewhere that UVC lamps have this effect on food but didn't really believe it at the time. I never would have guessed it'd only take 15 minutes for such discoloration to occur. They do make fridges with the violet and blue LEDs though.

@haroldsmith45302 4 года назад

For greater tanning contrast and increased process standardization, use a strip of aluminium foil instead of electrical tape. My various rolls of electrical tape have different degrees of opacity to visible light and, I assume, to UVC too.

@TrollFaceTheMan 2 года назад

Probably not UVC as the UVC is stopped completely from usually even thin plastics or rubber. UVC lights need to be made with a special glass too as the glass with also stop it even if extremely thin.

@tuopeeks 4 года назад

Some phosphors only fluoresce under UV-A. This is why you can’t make old fluorescent tubes glow under UV as the glass tube blocks it. If you were to break the tube, (not a good idea) and present the phosphor coating to the UV-A it will fluoresce if there is a short-wave content. Won’t work for black-light as it is glass filtered.

@hogfather355 4 года назад

Once again a nice job Clive! I tried this test. It is a nice simple and accessible way that anyone can check their UVC steriliser. My home made steriliser has an 8 watt Mercury vapour tube ( in a foil lined cardboard box). At a distance of 170 mm from the tube it takes 2 hours of exposure to duplicate your result. My rubbish LED corn-cob 'steriliser bulb' did nothing at all to its test Banana! In my view ALL LED UV-C ' steriliser' bulbs are fake unless they cost a significant amount of money! One other point of note: Mercury vapour bulbs naturally generate Ozone 'gas' which produces a typical smell. This stuff is dangerous to lung tissue ( just what we don't want during the Covid-19 emergency!) So if using a cheap tube it is best to make sure there is PLENTY of VENTILATION! More expensive branded tubes are 'doped' to prevent this. Now I feel peckish.....ah..here's a Banana! 😷

@jlucasound 4 года назад

Clive! Genius demonstration. This should help the naysayers understand. It is so hard to crack a coconut, but it can be done, with enough moxie.

@ohglobbits 4 года назад

Coming to a dodgy eBay seller soon, Genuine Bananacidal Lamps! 🚫🍌

@blitzroehre1807 4 года назад

Cheap UV sensors sold out since last video. Now Clive makes banana shares skyrocket XD Great video!!

@angel198717 4 года назад

you should put links on were to buy real uvc lights

@steveshadowphoto9346 4 года назад

Another great, and instructive video! I find your presentation soothing after a hard day! Greetings from Chicago!

@TheWtfnonamez 4 года назад

This video is a wonderful public service. I recently got a little UV lamp like the one you included in a previous video, so I trusted it more ... now I dont have to trust it, I can test it. Thank you, and thank you to the viewer who gave you this idea!

@Airsoftforall 4 года назад

"It burned the banana" I laughed way to hard at that!

@joshuaewalker 4 года назад

I can't imagine how I WON'T be using this info every day from now on!

@generalknowldged 4 года назад

Another test is using eyeglasses with transition lenses. The lenses will darken up from UV exposure, but will not from a fake LED bulb.

@LordZarano 4 года назад

I can draw on my transitions lenses using the UV LED from a cheap invisible ink pen I have. Definitely not UVC. This is not a good test.

@SparkY0 4 года назад

Just a heads up to anybody who wants to sanitize with UV-c. It didn't just damage your eyes and skin, they fade dyes and break down plastic too

@CandC68 4 года назад

Might want to get a little info to add to this test. What is the wavelength range to kill viruses? And optimum nM. What is the wavelength that kills viruses but produces ozone which is dangerous? What are the safe lamps? Or what safety precautions should be taken? When I did the banana test, it was clear that the sunburned part was the only part getting UV-C disinfecting. So any item to be disinfected would have to have UV reflected(shiny aluminum foil seemed best. Normal mirrors not so much. The glass of mirrors blocks UV BEFORE it reflects off the mirror coating on the back. ) Meaning the UV could reflect onto all sides, or the item rotated for more thorough exposure.

@dedhi100 4 года назад

Good and cheap testing tools (without smelling or inhaling the ozone). Thanks !

@stormwulf117 Год назад

We need no longer fear the banana.

@cojones8518 4 года назад

I just watched a man give a banana a suntan.... I'm so happy!

@VictorGarciaR 4 года назад

Plants do detect UV light with proteins like UVR8, although that one is for UVB. So, the banana changed color due to UVC damag e/ damage response on the cells, although I dont know if they have an specific UVC receptor(which is unlikely as uvc tends to not reach the surface)

@swedensy 4 года назад

Note that only 10% of the uvc tube is in uvc range. It also gives out alot of white and blue light. To remove that use 254nm optical filter. Now you have made a lamp for uvc prospecting. I found mage crystals and calcites on the beach and abandoned mines.

@linuxgeex 4 года назад

black forest ham responds to UVC even faster than your banana did.

@johnbrowne3518 4 года назад

Heheh, Taking Big Clive OUT of Context #002 - "...Oh, That'is a very Hot Lamp! That is an EXTREMELY HOT LAMP! ! It's BURNT the BANANA!" lol

@stevenbirch 4 года назад

So, clearly, I now need to baste all my bananas with suntan oil. Just in case.

@paraiskaparaiskai4762 5 месяцев назад

Expected the uv c lamp affect other bananas too.

@rayceeya8659 4 года назад

So in these trying times, I'm still working. I have one or two days a week doing retail on top of my regular work. I've been looking for something like a disposable touchscreen stylus so my customers can sign their signature without touching the screen. Best solution so far? Baby carrots. Interested on doing a video about that Clive?

@TheDarrenthorne 4 года назад

Thank you very much for this update bud . I have been thinking about getting 2 for my shops through the night (till area maybe kitchen as well).but have been put off but the flooded fake market, now I can test to see quickly and easily and be safe in the knowledge that it’s doing a very important job specifically bought for. Again thank you. I will share this with our Chamber of Commerce if that is ok with you?.you don’t need to write a big response just like this if ok. If not don’t like it. Cheers.

@johnpossum556 4 года назад

Burnt Banana is going to be the name of my next rock band.

@zh84 4 года назад

Bananas tan easily. Who knew? Seriously, this is a very clever test. Thank you.

@TrollFaceTheMan 4 года назад

That banana didn't burn, he was just shocked by how fake that UVC light is.

@debjotione 4 года назад

Thanks, I’ve been using a uv-c bulb to sanitize groceries and had wondered why the bananas had that odd brown hue, now I know!

@greensun6819 4 года назад

I know an very interesting experiment from a cutomer. He did a test on his shoes by shining the UVC light in them. Afterall the shoes became less smelly... Because the UVC light can sterilize the bacteria which cause the offensive odors in shoes.

@magebit 3 года назад

When the LED light came off the banana I thought it was a joke. I thought clive drew a little face on it and was gonna be like see? This banana feels scammed! Turns out the banana was burned by the LED. 10/10

@Paperknifesaint 4 года назад

Big Clive is ASMR and educational, change my mind

@Petertronic 4 года назад

Very effective experiment!

@joefarr3304 4 года назад

If the test was to be accurate, if running the 3 tests concurrently, the bananas should have had a lot more separation or light isolation. Also, the light sources should have been held slightly away from the banana surface to eliminate the possibility of heat from the light source influencing the outcome.

@lipvandip6480 4 года назад

What i have learnt from this video is that if i am using a UVC lamp, i can stay in the room providing that i cover myself in electrical tape from head to toe.

@Arcanefungus Год назад

You can tell which one is the real UVC lamp in the first frame, only one of the lamps has yellowed plastic parts

@lostjohnny9000 4 года назад

Can't wait to see banana vs real UVC LEDs.

@pfefferle74 4 года назад

It would be interesting to repeat this test with a banana that's been coated with sunscreen.

@Fomites 4 года назад

Especially if that sunscreen is able to block UV-C as well as UV-A and UV-B.

@richardsandwell2285 4 года назад

Great video, getting hold of UVC LEDs is very hit & miss.

@brianksiazek4666 3 года назад

You might be able to use minerals that only fluoresce under shortwave light such as franklinite, calcite or willemite.

@peehandshihtzu 4 года назад

I got a UVC off Amazon, took 1 1/2 months to get here. I was happy that it was in-fact a real one. Unfortunately in less than an hour (cumulative) it burnt out. The seller promptly gave my money back without expecting it to be returned. That said this is unusual, these kind of sellers generally try to swing some sort of a crappy deal where they give the refund only after you leave a good seller and product review (ironically) which I never comply with. I guess the way I have to interpret this, is that this was a way of taking a "loan" from me, I'm not in that line of work, LOL. Amazon is starting to tread a line by letting these type of sellers and worse do business on their platform. I love these videos! :)

@MichaeljRichter 4 года назад

I have reported those scam sellers numerous times to Scamazon with zero success. I have concluded that Scamazon is no better then buying out of a back alley van. Caveat emptor.

@peehandshihtzu 4 года назад

@@MichaeljRichter For real, this plannedemic has given them more excuses. Been starving them and they hate it. Stop buying from them for a month or so and they'll miss that income and start sending you ads for deals you can't refuse, then refuse them, LOL :)

@altarcast6306 4 года назад

this is great test for uvc light to verify which light is real uvc. thanks

@rogerhargreaves2272 4 года назад

So glad you demonstrated the Banana test Clive. Now let them over ripen naturally & you can make delicious Banana cake. 👍💯 RgY.

@NIGHTOWL-jf9zt 4 года назад

Wondering if this is actually making the fruit ripen more quickly? I like my bananas very ripe ( sweet ). I usually wait till the skin goes mostly blackish but not mushy.

@AmusementLabs 4 года назад

Banana tanlines... Okaaay.

@km5405 4 года назад

might be interesting to expose some plastics to UVC.... my guess would be the UVC is ripping the pigment molecules apart in the banana.

@zachcarney3910 4 года назад

Because of what I like to watch I've come across this channel quite a few times over the past couple years. Honestly, the nice mellow voice is just a bit to slow for me. BUT because of that I feel like mentioning something about the recent interest in UVC lamps has been fun. There's some extra excitement in the air there or something lol

@stevengrice3105 4 года назад

A whole new world of banana and jaffa tape art. It could be worth a fortune.

@supercompooper 4 года назад

She blinded me with Science... er I mean.. blinded me with UV-C!

@BunnyKins1970 4 года назад

OK! I have a plan! Green bananas, a UVC lamp and some stencils!

@Fomites 4 года назад

Does anyone have any information on the effect of UVC light on non-green bananas?

@williamreynolds8210 4 года назад

Excellent demonstration, Clive. Thank you!

@Penguins247 4 года назад

I'd like the see the same lights with some fluorescent yellow marker pens, just to see whether there's any UV being emitted by the other two lights at all?

@BigClive 4 года назад

Blue light will make those glow.

@johnwang9914 4 года назад

A lot less expensive than a UV-C meter too. I wonder that the seller would say when you return the fake lights for failing the banana test.

@Fozzedout 4 года назад

I never knew that bananas could get sun tans. That would be a legit way of testing the effectiveness of sun creams!

@Fozzedout 4 года назад

@@johncoops6897 that's a shame, oh well

@yeetyeet7070 10 месяцев назад

banana for scale, very cool

@reggiep75 4 года назад

Tan that 'nana!! Time to make a 'Big Clive Lockdown Tanned Banana Lockdown Collection'... For science and entertainment!

@robinnesting3811 4 года назад

That is a really interesting experiment! I wonder, could you use the real UV lamp to build something like a "quick fruit ripener" for when you just don't want to wait three more days for your banana to be ready for a lovely snack?

@TheRealTomWendel 4 года назад

Turning bananas color is not an indication of virucidal activity. 😂

@CatsMeowPaw 4 года назад

I have never been so interested in seeing another man's banana

@Tenetri 4 года назад

I have four of these coming in the mail, so thank you, I will give this a shot when they arrived! Thanks so much, this is pretty important!

@blitzroehre1807 4 года назад

Four bananas or four UV lamps? :-)

@zorrosoxter4703 4 года назад

Tenetri still no reply, the world needs to know. Thanks so much, this is pretty important!

@tomaspreece3126 4 года назад

Hi clive a huge fan of your channel!, one question can you test varios types of plastic to UVC exposure?, what happens if leave your lamp dissinfecting your spaces and you have some appliances nearby?? will they yellow or crack?, thanks a lot and keep up the good work giving us true answers!

@Polite_Cat 4 года назад

Now put some suntan lotion on the banana and see the result on the uncoated areas! It would be interesting to see especially if you use different SPF ratings.