This lamp was sent to me from Japan by Jerry and Rosie.
Jerry writes:- "The yellow bug-light lamp is commonly used for outside lanterns and alleyway lights to avoid attracting insects and spiders, and reduce cobwebs building up around light fixtures."
The yellow light the lamp puts out is a very sharp lemon-yellow as opposed to the golden orange of other similar lamps I've seen. The theory is that the insects are attracted to light in the blue/UV area of the spectrum and will find a low-blue lamp less attractive.
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Jerry writes:- "The yellow bug-light lamp is commonly used for outside lanterns and alleyway lights to avoid attracting insects and spiders, and reduce cobwebs building up around light fixtures."
The yellow light the lamp puts out is a very sharp lemon-yellow as opposed to the golden orange of other similar lamps I've seen. The theory is that the insects are attracted to light in the blue/UV area of the spectrum and will find a low-blue lamp less attractive.
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http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
Led lights that we have get actually very hot, sometimes a bit uncomfortable to hold at times but at least we know the heat dissipation works well
Totally read the title as Anti-Japanese Mosquito Lamp
I'm in the US and I remember using yellow lights in my youth as antibug lamps
Steaming up lenses, and fingering stuff. I think i know a website this video would fit into nicely if you catch my drift…
What kind of flush snips are those. Local supplier here have stopped carrying good quality. They all click, it don't align.
You know, most of those POS light bulbs have the light socket threaded right over the one of the bare wires over the plastic (the metal unscrews right off of the housing freeing the bare wire). The other may be soldered to the center of the bulb socket connector. Just in case you start looking at more of these 🙂
The hopi has me bugging right now clive
My Comment -Big Thumbs Up.
Not-attracting isn't the same as repelling…
There actually exist other than radioactive retina destroying blue LEDs? o.o
They have been selling the yellow style outdoor light bulbs in America for many years. Both LED and tungsten lamps. They are marketed to keep bugs from being attracted to your porch light. From my personal experiences with them i never noticed any difference in bug quantity.
Use less , Low budget technology
Freqency is f**ked.
Hi Clive. Big fan. I'm in Philippines at the moment (my wife electrocuted me with a water heater before we got married in 2012) and wondered if there is anything you particularly wanted from the "the land with no earth"?
Just wasted 12 minutes of my life watching a guy take a bulb apart and talk about it and yet it was quiet fascinating. Nicely done
We use to use "bug lamps" at work where we processed prototype circuit boards using a photo resist process.
The yellow tape appears to be polyester. It has very little stretch, good puncture resistance, sticks OK, but not super high heat resistance (like Kapton tape).