Whats different about UVC Emitters and conventional tubes?
Conventional UVC tubes are of one gas and a bead of mercury. To get that bead of mercury into a vapor state to produce UVC requires a specific ambient temperature that ideally allows for a tube wall temperature of 105F. Obviously, blowing any air over the tube, especially cold air removes sufficient heat to condense the mercury reducing or eliminating UVC output. Hence the trick was to produce a plasma that was unaffected by heat removal. This required: A blend of special noble gases and pressures A thicker tube wall of higher purity quartz Specially constructed tri-coil filaments and coatings And a unique power supply to make it all come together.
