Demonstration of the KAM K-UV 16 X 3 & K-UV 18 X 1 Strip Black Light

0:01 Demos, tutorials, crazy videos and silly hats

Alright ladies and gentlemen, first of all, welcome to the magical world of Jonathan the DJ Tutor, where believe me, anything is possible and pretty much anything can happen. Demos, tutorials, crazy videos and silly hats. It's not silly enough really is it? I mean, I like that one. That's just posh, that's just downright... Hey baby! This one though is silly. That's just mad isn't it? Okay, to business. Now, I have been a DJ for longer than I'd like to say. Quite a few years. When I started DJing, you had a mirror ball, a pin spot, you had a strobe, if you are really lucky, and you also had some UV lighting, also known as blacklight. It sort of went... it was out of vogue for quite a while. It was right big.

In the 70s, 80s and 90s but then towards the latter part of the 90s and the turn of the 20s it just sort of, I don't know, people seem to forget about them. But they're back and they're back with a vengeance. Now if you're not familiar with black lights or UV lighting, if you imagine the rainbow, well on one side of the rainbow you have radio waves so you have your colours and then you go into radio waves On the other side, you go into UV and X-rays. Now that's where the UV comes from. It's part of the spectrum that you can see but you sort of can't see, if you get what I mean. Neither do I. Alright, so again, I'm going to try and explain a little bit about UV and also what it can do. Now at the moment I've got two lights on there from a company called Cam and this one here

3:09 I mean, we've got a strange light

This is the Cam K-UV 18x1W, which is 18 1 watt LEDs, UV LEDs. Now it's DMXable, master slave, sound to light, so if we go back a few years, your black lights, your UV lights, they were great. There were two modes, on and off. That was it. Couldn't really dim them, they were on or off. Nowadays with modern day technology, You've not only got LEDs that make them last a lot longer, you can DMX them as well. So you can have a UV show, which is pretty stunning to be quite honest. This one here is the K-UV 16x3. It's got 16 3W UV LEDs. And if you can hear that in the background, that plug's come out. It's fan cooled as well. Right, so again... Anyone out there who's not familiar with UVs, you're probably saying, well, they don't really do much, do they? I mean, we've got a strange light. That's about it, but you're actually wrong. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to turn the light off and... where is it? There. As you can see, in this light, it's a piece of white card and doesn't do much really, does it? Let's turn the light off. Hold on. My God, it's dark.

Okay, so there it is. I'm now going to point the UV light at it and boom, it's now glowing in the dark. I mean, it's literally glowing in the dark. So that is what UV or black lights do. They make things glow. They make white glow. Also you can get UV paint. Now that was the bar. Let's get The one that's got the 16, which is just turned down now. Again, it's DMX-able so it's dimming. Okay, you get the idea. There you go. Now that is bright. It's almost like I'm literally holding a torch. That's crazy. So this is how bright they can get. And again, the beauty I find... Hold on. Just turn the light back on. What I do like about black lights is you can walk into a room With no flashy lighting. Nothing at all. But when you walk in, there's this ambience, there's this sort of feel, there's this glow in the room. But there's no lighting. But as soon as you step into the UV lighting, it comes alive. It depends if you've got false teeth or anything like that, or what clothing you're wearing, but what you do find is certain parts of your anatomy start to glow. Especially if you've got dandruff as well. No hope of that, thank God. Also...

5:16 Paint, behind, these

UV paint, backdrops, maybe you're going to do a rave, maybe you've got some sort of party and instead of let's say just doing normal paint, big pictures behind you, get some UV paint, make some UV backdrops, put those behind you and then you could use these for uplighting. So what you've got, you've got this glow behind you and it's not the beauty, it's a fantastic Fantastic way of setting up your show. I used to do it years ago, I used to do rave nights and I'd have huge banners behind me. You'd walk in and you'd see nothing but then all of a sudden with the black lights, the UV lights on they would glow, they would shine and they'd pretty much fill up the entire room and you wouldn't need many other lights because you have this glow of different colours behind you from the paint. You can also today get paint that you can put on you.

So, for example, let's say for your event, you could say, say you're doing, I don't know, a Sweet Sixteen or a party where the parents allow you to paint people or paint themselves. You can have pots of paint at the beginning and then get them just to, I don't know, lipstick on their cheeks, I don't know, lines all over the place. And when they're, say, by the bar and they're out of the area where the UV is shining, it just looks like regular paint. But as soon as you go into the room, it shines, it glows. It's a fantastic way of making your evening that little bit more special, alright? Now what I will do, I'll put information on these two black lights in the description. And there's not much more I can say about them. I mean you can see here now they're both on. They're doing their own little thing. The bar is doing sound to light at the moment. And that is... Cable's just come out. Sorry, my fault.

As I said earlier, that's something that didn't used to happen years ago. The black lights were pretty much something about this big with a bulb in it that looked like, I don't know, a stuffed tomato and it pointed in one direction and that was it. You turned it on and off. The other alternative was a strip light that was a black light and you turned it on and off and that was it. These pretty much do everything, alright? Any more info on these go and check out the link in the description. Go and check out cam.co.uk Thank you for watching and practice and enjoy your UV style lighting.

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