UV SYSTEMS, Inc. 17th Year in Business

Kathy Kellberg, Executive Assistant and Production Manager for UV SYSTEMS, Inc.

Kathy is married, and has 4 children, ages 16 through 22.

She has lived in Renton, WA all her life. She graduated from High School in 1981 and attended Renton Technical College taking the Bank Telling course. She was a bank teller for Bank of America 18 years, retiring in June 2001.

She started working for UV SYSTEMS, Inc. as a contract worker in 1997, building the SuperBrights and TripleBrights II. Kathy became a direct employee in September 2001 where she does most of the shipping, receiving, bookkeeping and filing. She continues to assemble the ultraviolet lights in her own shop. Kathy works at the UV SYSTEMS, Inc. office at least 2 days a week, and builds the lights about 3 days a week.

New T-20 Timer Available for Spectacular Changing Light Show

The new T-20 electronic timer is now available. A smaller and more versatile version of the popular T-12 Timer, the T-20 standard model has four outputs and can, for example, turn “on” and “off” a LW UV light, a SW UV light, and a MW UV light, and can also dim down and ramp up your incandescent lights. A typical timing cycle might have the incandescent lights “on” as potential viewers stroll by, at which point a proximity detector starts the cycle, dims the incandescents to “off” and immediately turns the LW UV “on.” Next LW goes “off” and SW comes “on.” Then LW comes back “on” so you have both LW and SW together. Finally, both LW and SW go “off,” and you can see the phosphorescence of the minerals. As the show draws to a close, the incandescent lights slowly ramp up, avoiding the discomfort of a sudden increase of light. Of course, a push-button switch can also be used to start the cycle, activated by viewers in the museum. The standard four outputs can be expanded to eight or more, and, along with scores of different timing cycles, provide unlimited opportunity to exercise your creativity in designing your display. Some curators may want to include narration and background music. The heart of the T-20 is a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) which stores the timing cycle in non-volatile memory. Contact UV SYSTEMS for more information.

(Click to enlarge image) Kathy holding T-20 Timer.
(Click to enlarge image) Don Newsome at the 2007 TGMS Show, showing fluorescent minerals in room light using two SW TripleBright II’s and one LW TripleBright II. On top is the T-12 Timer.	(Click to enlarge image) Don Newsome at Tucson 2005 showing two SW TripleBright II's and one LW TripleBright II, on his case, the T-12 was under the table.

TripleBright II is one of the Best Display Light Available
POWER - Results of comparative tests show that the single-lamp TripleBright II US Patents 6,479,947 and 6,838,837) is, in fact, one of the most powerful SW UV display lights available. Tested at the same time were two other display lights: the UVP, Inc., UVG-D68 (grid lamp) and the UVS-225D (two 25-watt lamps) display lights. In many of the measurements the TripleBright II has over three times the UV output of either of the other two. The high power of the TripleBright II is enhanced by maintaining an optimum temperature inside the light by using a fan. The SW TripleBright II is the only hot cathode UV light that uses a quartz lamp for greater UV output. Now a Dual TripleBright II is available with two lamps. There are over 9 different combinations available depending on which lamps you want. Contact UV SYSTEMS for more information.

DEPENDABILITY AND ECONOMY
An exciting feature of the TripleBright II is that, due to a patented custom-designed circuit, it can be turned "on" and "off" millions of times without wearing out the life of the lamp (or "bulb")! This feature is important for collectors --and especially for museums-- in terms of long-term economical operation.

VERSATILITY
The TripleBright II comes with any one of five specially designed HO (high output) lamps. You can choose either a LW at 352 nm, a LW at 368 nm, a MW at 306 nm, a non-ozone quartz SW at 254 nm or an ozone quartz SW with 185 nm, whichever lamp you want.

Acknowledgements

Lara Whelan is the model for the TripleBright II's. Lara is the mother of two young boys and a recent Ph.D. graduate in bio-engineering from the University of Washington. She and her husband attend the same church that Alma and Don attend.

Product Photographer
The late Jimi Lott was an award winning professional photography for the Seattle Times newspaper. He took almost all of the shots of the products, TripleBrights II, SuperBrights, Battery packs, Lamps, Filters, Goggles, etc.

Mineral Photographer
Jeffrey A. Scovil of Phoenix, AZ the famous professional mineral photographer took all of the photos for the morphing minerals. Jeff is one of the photographers for the Mineralogical Record, and Rocks and Minerals magazines. Don sent Jeff some of his specimens and two SuperBright 2000SW and two SuperBright 2010LW UV lights along with extra LW lamps so Jeff could take photos under SW, LW350, and LW370.

Morphing Minerals
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FMS European Regional VP Axel Emmermann is from Antwerp, Belgium. He is a lab technician at a quality control laboratory of a petrochemical company. He is married with two children. Axel is active in the Mineral Club Antwerp (MKA), and provided several of the fluorescent mineral photos for their web site. Axel programmed all of the morphing pictures and provided the fluorescent stereo photos for this web site.

Maybe one of the most interesting aspects of Axel is how he helped trap the thieves of the Moon Rocks that were stolen from NASA in Houston in July 2002. Read that fantastic story in the FMS Jan. Feb. 2003 UV WAVES. Without Axels help the moon rocks might never have been recovered!

Website development and webmaster responsibilities Performed by freelance developer David Rahrer.

Copy reviewer
Alma Newsome, my wife, reviewed most of the copy used on the web site, especially the FAQ section.