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I was transporting my UV eprom eraser home and turned it on - no lights.  :129-
So I removed the top cover and looked inside...the lamp is burned out!  :8- :37-

It's held in place by a couple of clips mounted to the floor of the box.
Four wires coming from the circuit board are soldered to the bulbs contact pins.
That's not a problem to un-solder and re-solder the wires when I get a replacement lamp.
But upon closer inspection  :209- of the lamp bulb itself - there are NO markings on it at all!  :7-

What in the world should I try to get as a replacement lamp/bulb?  :128-
The lamp is 5-3/8" long and roughly 9/16" in diameter.

Should be a G15T5 Germicidal

You have to go to China & get one.

Sorry, I spoke too quick.  Here is a PDF for Sylvania. 

Oh! Thanks guys!  :3- Kudos + to you guys!  :89-

I'm going to pick up a G15T5 Germicidal lamp ASAP!

No Fordsbs! I'm NOT going to China for this!   :97-

As I am going off of memory you may want to double check the PDF I attached.  It may be a F7 or F8

For the price of the bulb, might be cheaper to just buy a new unit. 

haha! I almost agree with you Poppo!
I can't remember what I paid for this thing.
I've used it quite a bit...but 6,000 hrs?
I shouldn't be banging it around... :72-

I did some digging around.
The body of this UV lamp I have is: 135mm in length and 15mm in diameter.

That seems to match the dimensions on the chart to the website you led me to.
I think I would need the first on on top...the G4T5VH lamp or the G4T5L lamp?

Here's the link to that page...>>>

http://www.uvlamp-cn.com/wateruvlamp/b/2.htm (http://www.uvlamp-cn.com/wateruvlamp/b/2.htm)




Click on chart below to super-size!...>>>

Gave up looking for a .9watt lamp to fit this thing.
All I see are the longer and 4 watts lamps.
So I bought a new eprom eraser...
It has little  bit of Chinese writing on it...  :72-

Total cost: $17.24  

I told you to go to China
Ford

Oh no....Stayout is going to have to lean a new language to operate it. :97-

Ron (r273)

...and take a slow boat there and back!   :104-

   :200-   :72-   :97-

哈哈哈！！你是一個非常愚蠢的傢伙！  :96-

You don't say?

你不知道我說 knagl什麼！！！你只是拉著我的腿！！LOL！！    :114-

哈哈哈！！你是一個非常愚蠢的傢伙！
HA HA HA!! You are a very foolish guys!

你不知道我說 knagl什麼！！！你只是拉著我的腿！！LOL！！
You don't know what I say KNAGL! ! ! You are just pulling my leg ! ! LOL! !

Translate with Bing......he he.

Ron (r273)

R273! You ratted me out!  :97-

WHAT??? Do we have a language button someplace in all of the buttons on the post form??? :103- :25- :97- I would have a better chance understanding if you put it in Swedish... You know pictures like in the ikea directions!!! :5- :96- :200- :208-

CH :95-

Wow! Looks like you can buy a kit and build "Stonehenge"  :72-
I really like instruction #7....wonder what he's saying?
The other guy is sitting down drinkin' something... :154-


 
"Look Out!! I'm gonna drop this 300lb. rock on your head!!!" :96-

Tools: A shovel

Dig a hole and drop a big rock into it.
Sounds like recipe for a rip-roaring good time!  :200-

I wouldn't go to China right now.
We are buying so many products from Chine  I  would wait until the Bridge is finished in a  couple of months and you can drive  there..  Unless you live in New  York City,  you can take a Cab. 
Good luck on the Bulb.
R.

OK lets bet how many hours bunkers Chineeeeezzz eraser works before mass failure

As much as I hate to say it, a lot of the electronics stuff coming out of China works pretty good.  I would rather buy USA, but I'm not going to pay 4x as much (and the components probably still came from China).

 :72- haha! I've had mine for about 3-4 years now I believe.
Do I use it a lot? YEAH!
I'm ALWAYS constantly erasing eproms and fooling around with them!
But I do think now, when looking back at it, did NOT use up it's life of roughly 6,000 hrs.

I pulled the 3 screws off of the small transformer board in it.
Guess what I found under the board?
An NM27C512 stuck under it.

I'll betcha the eprom shorted out the board somehow and sent way more than 24 volts to the lamp!!!

Hey!  :299- I have one of those currency checkers with the small blue lamp that's exactly the same length as this G4T5 bulb.
I wonder if it will work in a pinch?  :79-

BE RIGHT BACK! ZOOOM!>>>> ( Bunker runs to go find it in the garage somewhere! >>>  :301- :273- )

Okay, I've placed the chip under a ...get this name...lol...>>> a "$CAN = PLU$" money detector.  LOL!
I think it was for checking Canadian bills at the store we had back in the 90's.
Anyways, I put the chip on top of a Christmas wrapping Scotch tape plastic dispenser thing so
the UV "eye" is about an inch away from the purple light.

I wonder how long it has to stay there to get erased?

I would say 15 minutes should do it if it's going to work.

Nope...15 minutes and the checksum is still the same. (note to self: 9400)
I'll leave it for another 45 minutes and see if the checksum changes at all...

Might have better luck just leaving it out in the sun.  :72-

lol  *~ "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone..."~*

I think it takes like 2 weeks in daylight to erase an eprom.

Which is still faster than the boat from China. :96-

  :299- You know what?
I'm going to try it!  :89-
Has anybody ever tried it here before?  :129-
I'm not in no big hurry on this one...lol

This has been tried,And works quite well in full bright sunlight depending on where your at--------Magnafieng glass at full itensity aprox 3ft away for aprox 4 minutes in a CLEAN window.  I do not do this or condone it--But if done properly it works.  I have a fine spectrum eraser that works well.  Just a thought I wanted to share--B.

Seems like I remember Op-Bell saying it takes a year in direct sunlite.