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From: dbraun@cadev4.intel.com (Doug Braun ~)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: build-it-yourself EPROM erasers
Message-ID: <1692@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 11 Feb 88 16:51:33 GMT
References: <8802091255.AA23298@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <12@ucsd.EDU> <41487@sun.uucp>
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In article <41487@sun.uucp> bobc@sun.UUCP (Bob Clark) writes:
>In article <12@ucsd.EDU> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>>Easy to do.  Go to a LARGE industrial electrical, restaurant,
>>laundry, or hospital/sickroom supply house and buy an ultraviolet
>>GERMICIDAL LAMP.  This will be a small clear fluorescent-style lamp 
>>tube.  They are typically available in either 15 or 25 watt sizes.
>>

An even better idea: Go to Goodwill or Salvation Army, or a garage
sale, and buy one of those old, cheap suntan lamps.  These usually
have a bulb about 1 1/2" long.  Just mount the chips 2-3" in front
of the bulb, and run it for 1/2 hour.  This has worked fine for years
for me.  These suckers are BRIGHT.  I put it in the bathroom, and close
the door until it is done.  Don't look at the lamp without goggles.
The lamps also give off lots of heat, so you might want to make a little
aluminum-foil shield, with holes in front of the EPROM windows.

Total cost: ~$3.00

While you wait, you can get a tan!  (actually, these cheap lamps
are very bad for you.  The UV is not filtered at all)


Doug Braun				Intel Corp CAD
					408 496-5939

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