UV Glowing Liquor Bottle Display

Learn how to create a impressive light up liquor bottle display out of household items. easy to do and fun to make.

Step 1 Gathering supplies...

Household items under $20

Comments

[inthefade425]

how long do they glow for?

[schumi23]

as long as there is power going through the UV light. They aren't actually glowing, its just that UV is not visible to the human eye, but on certain stuff, is... i don't really know why, but i think that will explain it.

[Shaji47]

any way, the stuff was quite wonderful...... I'm gonna do it at home

[a-jaxx]

in one of the bottles. Laundry detergent glows under UV light because phosphors are added so that when the clothes are in sunlight they appear brighter. A pretty clever/sneaky (depends on how you look at it) trick by the detergent companies.

[gregod43]

where do you use the laundry detergent? and what is it supposed to do?!

[missxombie]

 i was asking myself the same thing... O.o

[alex-sharetskiy]

that's cool!

[Learndy]

I am thinking of variations.

What about UV-LEDs? Mount them under the bottle or wrap them and put them into the liquid. Maybe add a little milk.

Oh, did I say milk? There is a saying that Hitchcock had dropped a flashlight into a glass of milk in a movie to enlighten it...

There is also an indicator color called flourescein shining in a bright green. Unfortunately it is excited by blue light. But if you just but a little bit of it into water and add some KaOH or NaOH you can place the bottle into a dark corner of your room and it will look pretty nice. No need for black light.

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[Ora]

You could buy some of those LED ice cubes, open them up, and replace the LEDs with UV-LEDs.

[Learndy]

Getting UV-LEDs is not the problem. The point is that they radiate at the wrong wavelength to bring flourescein to light up. I looked it up and it seems that blue LEDs are required.

This kills the special effect of glasses / bottles containing liquid shining in the dark...

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[Ora]

Oh, that's unfortunate.

[christin1234]

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[thinker]

you should get banned for stuff like this ^.
its so annoyingly pointless its untrue

[numbpain]

whats the liquid detergent for?

[bastardblaster]

You can find good black lights at Home Depot as well. i got a 60" one that makes my whole room and then some glow, and its not much more than the little ones you find at head shops.

[Shifrin]

This is a Great Instructable! good Pictures and everything!

[joejoerowley]

Cool. I like it. I can I use a "party bulb" from walgreens. I think it is just a light bulb covered in dark plastic but i dont know.

[EviLNinJa]

yeathose party bulbs work but not quite as good as a flurecent blacklight.. check out spencers gifts. the have blacklights for like $9.99