Chris Jones said:
Be careful, the quartz-envelope ones which erase eproms are dangerous to the
skin and eyes, and shouldn't be operated in any way that could result in
exposure of any people. They can do to an EPROM in 10 minutes what a week
of intense sun can barely do, so I wouldn't be surprised if they could give
you skin cancer pretty fast also. Also it will not pass very well through
glass so the PCB light box may not even erase the eproms.
I ended up buying a ridiculously cheap ($10) piece of Chinese rubbish off
eBay on Friday, and it arrived on Saturday. It is possibly the nastiest
piece of tat I've seen in a long time (i.e. wires are soldered to the tube
pins to save the cost of a socket, horrid bakelite/paper board, terrible
soldering etc.), but after some remedial safety work (new mains cable,
applying some insulation etc. internally) it did the job brilliantly, for
about the same cost a just buying a tube here. Possibly a fire hazard
though - I watch it carefully. Chips erase in about 15 minutes.
Thanks,
Mike