Does UV Light harm you?

its harmless except when u are staring long time at it . if ur talking abt radiation like CRT monitors or PC radiation . Metal casings have better RF ( radio frequency ) shielding than those perspex case ( full transparent cases ).

This post has been edited by LWRNCH6550: Sep 18 2006, 11:43 PM

wikipedia/google? these kind of questions really dont need a whole thread dedicated to them, answers can be gotten from simple searches on any decent search engine.

what about PC UV lights???

have wiki-ed it, it says it may be harmful but they never mention anything about UV CCFL for computers ...

from what i know the UV cold cathrod ( PC UV light ) isn't really those UV from the sun . So ? it may be harmful to our fragile eyes unless u stare at it or sleep with it , other than that no big harm .

ccfl UV lights use a diff UV wavelength, compared to the UV from the sun.

in short, no it wont hurt.

old question, but something that was posted in the case mod section probably at least 1 1/2 years back

does it harm our skin if its over exposed ???????
im refering to the UV CCFL

UV's supposed to giv ya cancer right?

u see, im confused now ....some ppl say gives u cancer, some ppl say its alright ..

guys, im refering to UV CCFL we use for Computer PC decoration. Not the UV sunlight @@

i'm going to move this to the case mod section, you'd get better informed answers there.

thread moved.

HmmM ... as far as I know, those UV tubes that we use for PC Modifications would'nt have bad effects against our health.
But for safe purpose ... do not really expose it directly for long duration
Just my humble opinion.

Yes, yes, this is the best explanation to all the questions about UV CCFL...

No it won't harm you, just don't stare at it stupidly long time la like if you're staring at it more than 5 minutes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet

In short, yes and no. It's actually good or you in some ways, but bad in others.

as mentioned, i've studied and read the wikipedia defination of UV but it has nothing related to the UV CCFM we use for PC modification.

Please define good in what ways? bad in what others?

Yeah, understood, and finally i got the best explanation, but still im not quite convinced ...

its a health question ...i wonder ....

if it harms, they couldn't be selling it easily... :

me 2nd to dat... how in the world CM, Sunbeam, AC Ryan n other brands are still making money out of it if it is still harmful?

logical but no doctor here ???? and why was the thread moved to here ler, i was expecting a doctor in the health category to answer my queries