LED lighting for health.

Hi - I want to use lighting to treat a chronic skin condition and would appreciate any help and advice that the clued up members on these forums would be able to give me.

The most efficacious medical lighting currently uses 100w, narrow band UVB fluorescent tubes made by Phillips, selling at over a $100 a pop.

Phillips narrow band UVB lamps.

Their most useful output is between 305 and 315nm, peaking at 311nm.

However, red, far red and infrared are all therapeutically useful at wavelengths around 630nm - 950nm, though optimal wavelengths occur at around the 630, 660, 730, 750, 800, 850, 900, 950nm marks.

Phillips have also just released a blue light device which has proved to be helpful though I can't find any wavelength or wattage information.

In any case, UVB remains the most successful photomodulation treatment.

I've mooched about these forums quite a bit so have some idea of where to go and who to buy from but UVB diodes seem pretty pricey and would appreciate any input from folks who keep up to date with the LED world. Who has the most reliable, most efficient, etc.

If I was just employing the Phillips lamps, I'd need at minimum of 400w to provide enough irradiance - my local hospital sticks you in a cabinet with 40 x 100w tubes.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Not sure this is the best place for that

Well I wouldn't take that kind of advice from a bunch of stoners

But good luck

Hiya Bob - .

Guess I'm not really looking for medical advice, just advice about reliable manufacturers and suppliers, quality of diodes (esp as regards accuracy of stated wavelengths), possible build costs, materials I might need - i.e. on building a light fixture. Especially comparing the phillips fluoro prices and outputs to uvb leds.

Here (and aquarium forums) people take an obsessive interest in that kind of thing. On forums related to the condition, it's all about ready made products. And they are EXPENSIVE.

So I think maybe this is one of the best places for me to ask.

Of course, I had to find a brief window in the haze to post this. Hopefully, others won't be too stoned to answer.

Always found weed forums generally helpful and friendly. But then, I was talking about weed. his might not capture anyone's attention.