UV LED's - anyone have any experience with them?

[J0K3RX]

I like to stare at UV lamps they really are beautiful! 

[duck_arse]

..... I looked into UV LEDs. ....

who was it told us not to do this?

[garcho]

what about infrared LEDs, can I stare into those at least?!

i was doing post on a feature length film that was recorded so poorly during production that i spent more time on it than the picture editor. i couldn't bare to look at a screen for days after that project. somehow i suspect, with all our modern-world screen-time, LEDs are not going to be what makes us blind.

[samhay]

>what about infrared LEDs, can I stare into those at least?!

Infrared can be more dangerous for your eyes than UV - UV damage becomes self-limiting as you generate photochemical cataracts, while near IR can boil the back of your eye!
In any case, you can't see in the IR - you're not an insect are you garcho? - so I can't see that being much fun.

[garcho]

IR LFO pedal sync for Periplaneta americana!

[samhay]

I got that wrong - insects can see into the UV, but not the IR.
Perhaps the OP could test their UV LEDs with cockroaches though...