I like this idea, but in my limited experiments with UV and reading, polycarbonate blades actually filter UV at higher energy levels. The UV range that makes things glow gets rather limited when the film doesn't help scatter it right and the polycarbonate is blocking it somewhat. I also wanted to see if maybe a tri cree could be done with a red, blue and UV blend to get the deep true purple I'm wanting. But the UV by itself was disappointing, so I didn't go anywhere with it. I wonder how close a deep blue mixed with deep red could approach the hot pink, since many with deep blue have reported a similar affect to UV.
A HEX LED diode can mix the colors together with UV and they become more vibrant and well they just pop.
Mixing red and UV gives you a hot pink. The UV on its own won't be very impressive with a polycarbonate blade.
Using a HEX LED, or even a TRI, or Quad LED diode cuts back on what is known as RGB shadowing in the DJ business.
If you use individual diodes for each color there is a chance of odd colorations, where as all of the colors are in one Hex, QUAD, or TRI LED diode. In which case, you could have three or four diodes in a saber, and the brightness of the blade would be very intense. I'm not even sure if it is possible to put four HEX diodes in a saber. It would probably intail a redesign of the Emerald Driver, and the battery setup.
TRI = three colors per diode, usually red, green, and blue, or RGB.
QUAD = four colors per diode, usually red, green, blue, and either white, or amber, RGBW, or RGBA.
I'm not sure if this diode is what the Emerald Driver uses or not.
HEX = six colors per diode, usually red, green, blue, white, amber, and UV, or RGBWA-UV.
There are also diodes out in the world with five colors, but they are rare in the DJ industry these days. Generally they have all the same colors as a HEX diode, without the UV.
Hope this sparks some new ideas at US, I'd love to have a saber with a single HEX LED diode, mostly because I think it would be bright enough.
