Small battery operated UV lamp for glowbeads.

I've recently started to use glow beads on my rigs as I primarily fish all-nighters and I was looking to find some sort of small portable UV lamp to charge the beads up as using the headlamp was tiresome and slow.
I looked about the city centre yesterday and found a UV note checker, basically a small handheld keychain torch that checks banknotes for authenticity.
http://www.zweibrueder.com/english/prod ... ctors.html

You can get them in the gadget shop on the top floor of the Jervis Centre for 15 euros, I tested it last night and it charges beads a lot better than the headlamp that I was using.
I hope this is useful for someone else.

Eoin.

got 1 in maplins last year, they're very good, put alot more "charge" into the beads compared to white light

I tried Maplins and they had nothing on the UV front at all, everything out of stock.

Work a treat in any case.

as a past employee of Maplin's i know they sell Uv LED's, i have a 3 LED torch and replaced one of the LED's with a Uv.... does the job nicely..

P.s. if they dont have something in stock.. get them to order it in for you.. :D

I was in Southside today and they have something similar to this for 11.95 or so.

This can be had at ALDI next week [url]http://ireland.aldi.com/special_buys2/product_178.html[/url]. I'm not sure how much light is required to charge the beads but if nothing else you can security mark your kit :).

Use a cheap flash unit you'd fit on a camera, about €20, but I've found they (the lumi beads) have their drawbacks. Have often dropped fish after the first 10 or so winds I've put this down to the fish taking the beads rather than the bait. Have often struck on good solid takes 5/10 times without hooking the fish. I'ts a case of user beware.

Use a cheap flash unit you'd fit on a camera, about €20, but I've found they (the lumi beads) have their drawbacks. Have often dropped fish after the first 10 or so winds I've put this down to the fish taking the beads rather than the bait. Have often struck on good solid takes 5/10 times without hooking the fish. I'ts a case of user beware.

I've been using stop knots to keep the beeds down on the bait rather than letting them run up the trace. I've not been using the glow beads long so have still to gather some experience with them.

Use a cheap flash unit you'd fit on a camera,

r u still using that, i still remember you blinding me in ballinwilling about 11 or 12 years ago wit the fecken yoke

i use a Surefire 6p torch 60 lumens off power as standard but i have the upgrade kit fitted to make it 120 lumens :D

it is what the american swat teams use on their weapons, i have even seen the holster to attach it to the guns on ebay :lol:

bout 80 quid here but bout 3o from ebay.com, just remember to aks for i as a gift or you could get stubg by the customs :evil: