I am not sure on the reflection of UV.

Regular eyeglasses will stop the direct UV. If you do not use your
regular glasses, you need to use regular safety glasses when doing this
to be sure.

John

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-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:08 AM
To: TechNet E-Mail Forum; John Burke
Subject: Re: [TN] UV Light cause eye cancer

John,

Yes and No. I am wearing normal progressive lens spectacles for both
long and
short-sightedness. However, during inspection, due to my long
sightedness, I
need to remove it in order to see properly. I usually held the board as
close
as 20cm or 8" away from my eyes.

Does that make me prone to the UV reflection from the board.

Regards,
Wee Mei


Quoting John Burke <[log in to unmask]>:

> Wee Mei,
>
> You are wearing protective eye glasses when doing that right?
>
> John
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: TechNet on behalf of Wee Mei
>       Sent: Wed 4/26/2006 7:02 PM
>       To: [log in to unmask]
>       Cc:
>       Subject: [TN] UV Light cause eye cancer
>
>
>
>       Morning,
>
>       I just learned from TV news in Singapore that the eye doctors
are seeing an
> increase in eye cancer due to UV from sunlight. The symptoms of dry
eyes, red
> vessels and small lump on the eye ball described by the eye doctors on
TV are
> what I have experience recently.
>
>       I got worry as I have been inspecting conformal coating using UV
lamp daily
> between 15 min to 2 hours at a stretch. As for my colleague who manual
coat
> the boards, he can easily spent 4 - 5hours daily at such work. Can
someone
> provide some adivise on the effect.
>
>       We are using Long awve UV 365nm. The UV lamp is from Spectronics
Corp code
> BLE-760B.
>
>       Thanks in advance.
>
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