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220V powered cold cathode UV phosphor tester

That useful DIY gadget uses a small UV-C CCFL style quartz tube, and a matching ballast, all about $10-15 from Aliexpress. An advantage of cold cathode lamp from regular phoshpor tester is that tube life is not degraded at all on short switching cycles typical for a tester.
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