Chinese UV Eraser Lifespan

[The1]

Well one of mine just died, bulb burnt out, estimated to have done about 85hrs of erasing onto the next one, what sort of life has everyone else been getting? Not bad for the $12 in the end.

[delcowizzid]

ive had mine since the beginning be easy 8 to 10 years and going strong LOL

[Holden202T]

yeah im in about the same boat as delcowizzid, not sure on the amount of eproms in it but i've had it since 2003/4 i think.

[Jayme]

yeah my switch died and i twitched it up to bypass it and lost the knob... but its still going in the early days I used to have issues with having to smack it to get it going coz the bulb was going at half brightness, but that sort of went away lol

[Holden202T]

enough whacks to beat it into submission hehehe

[The1]

Yeh the timer thing never worked on mine, i had the lid off to so i could fit the larger memcals in, didn't even bother using the tray ever!

[delcowizzid]

my tray has a memcal slot cut in it but i have the lid unscrewed and just drop memcals and eproms in from above.the timer is in hours not minutes i use a stopwatch LOL and turn it with pliers due to no knob to get the lid off.bulbs can be bought local for cheap.

[Jayme]

must be from a different chinese place... my timer wokrs fine andi s in minutes

[Dazza92VP]

My one must of been a made on a friday job. timer doesn't make any sense first mark is 12 mins the second is around 34 mins I'm same as delcowizzid use a stop watch

[Holden202T]

i normally go to 2 on mine and that is about 15 minutes!