"It's a lovely soft blueish glow" Well I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder :). The color rendering of the Megaray is way off most white light. My...
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vitd295nm
May 10, 2005 12:19 am
Are you buying lamps for you or your reptile? ... rendering ... looks...
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Ben Ballard
pogonavittic...
May 10, 2005 11:15 am
... Yes, the tank I inherited from a friend has a batten holder light fixture on the inside of the tank.Not my choice and I'm soon to re-model. ... light...
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Morkai Kurst
morkaikurst
May 10, 2005 11:15 am
... Oh human skin definitely looks slightly zombified under it - and on camera it gives everything a green tinge. I'm just talking about looking at it on in...
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theldara
May 10, 2005 11:19 am
Heh... both at this house ;) For me, I like the low vet bills from using proper lighting and the healthy look of my herps. For them, the benefits are across...
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lilacdawndragon
May 10, 2005 11:29 am
I agree completely with Victoria here, you can't risk using a 250W brooder bulb in a plastic lamp holder!!!! But what are you trying to heat with a 250watt...
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lilacdawndragon
May 10, 2005 12:11 pm
Hi, guys. Jukka, yes, I take your point that the sun (except at sunrise and sunset) causes an aversive reaction and no living thing keeps something that bright...
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Ben Ballard
pogonavittic...
May 10, 2005 1:26 pm
[MOD - TRIM YOUR POSTS!] I know abt the risks of hotness and plastic.I was going to use it in place of the red night bulb as my house doesnt stay above...
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Morkai Kurst
morkaikurst
May 10, 2005 1:27 pm
... Eek, definitely do not put a 250 watt bulb in that - As lilacdawndragon said I can't believe you would ever need a 250 watt a bulb. Hang on, what people ...
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vitd295nm
May 10, 2005 1:58 pm
The UV doesn't make you squint because it is invisible (to us humans anyway). It's the lumens of visible that make you look away, squint or put on sunglasses....
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bobmac@...
bobmaccargar
May 10, 2005 3:55 pm
... Jukka my friend, I love you for your work and the material you have presented and the continued perseverance in the ongoing study seeing as how you are now...
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mantistyke@...
mantistyke
May 10, 2005 9:22 pm
Very interesting thread. I see what Bob is saying. I can't see a flaw in the logic however my experiences with UV lights are somewhat different to the theory. ...
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theldara
May 10, 2005 9:27 pm
... Interesting. I can't look at the Exoterra 8's comfortably, I get a headache very quickly. I has to flip them off before messing with cages that used them,...
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vitd295nm
May 10, 2005 10:18 pm
For goodness sake... forgettaboutit. Just wear any pair of amber colored sunglasses to block >99% of UV and blue light. Ambervision, Blueblockers, or even...
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bobmac@...
bobmaccargar
May 10, 2005 10:34 pm
Steve, how much UVR is there in a normal tanning bed? Best regards, BobMacCargar Visit and learn; <http://www.reptileuvinfo.com> http://www.reptileuvinfo.com ...
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bobmac@...
bobmaccargar
May 10, 2005 10:34 pm
The color rendering of the Megaray is way off most white light. My skin (I'm caucasian) looks half dead under light from the Megaray, but it does show off...
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bobmac@...
bobmaccargar
May 10, 2005 11:02 pm
Rob, It could possibly be the higher blue spectrum that Steve has spoken about. The Bigapple Mystic lamps have a VERY hard blue light. These are the lamps that...
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bobmac@...
bobmaccargar
May 10, 2005 11:06 pm
I have noticed Reptiglo tubes give baby Panther and Oustalet's chameleons what I think is Photokeratitis if used at too close a distance (gradient of 2 inches...
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theldara
May 10, 2005 11:15 pm
Oh, I'm not worried about it, I just found it interesting that someone else had a similar expirenence w/ them. It isn't hard to just flip the UVB off when...
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Matt Fumich
m_fumich
May 10, 2005 11:19 pm
Typo Bob? You lived it? Matt...
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vitd295nm
May 10, 2005 11:44 pm
Generally, tanning beds put out 3-4 times the MED/hr and UVB of summer sun (burning rays) and lots more UVA (tanning rays). Session times are limited to 4 MEDs...
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lilacdawndragon
May 11, 2005 12:22 pm
Hi, everyone. Andy Beveridge and I have been working on spectrograms of all the UVB lamps and tubes. Rob Lane, Andy and I met up and took sets of readings a...
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vitd295nm
May 11, 2005 3:42 pm
Frances, I can't blow them up big enough to be sure, but to me the most striking difference is the Reptisun looks more like a "UVB" lamp whereas the Reptiglo...
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bobmac@...
bobmaccargar
May 11, 2005 4:16 pm
ps. BobMac, the extract from Andy is from the file I sent you a while back, a very long article entitled "Ultraviolet Light and Reptiles, Amphibians" - a Round...
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bobmac@...
bobmaccargar
May 11, 2005 4:16 pm
Generally, tanning beds put out 3-4 times the MED/hr and UVB of summer sun (burning rays) and lots more UVA (tanning rays). Session times are limited to 4 MEDs...
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lilacdawndragon
May 11, 2005 6:25 pm
I have the full original spectrogram data from Andy, in numerical form, which is converted by a computer program which he also gave me, to create the screen...
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sean46877
May 11, 2005 6:35 pm
... Hi, I can't get the full size view. Is it just me? Sean Sean, Karen, Noshi and Cuetzpallin community.webshots.com/user/ourigs...
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lilacdawndragon
May 11, 2005 6:55 pm
Strange! There must be a lock on it, so you can only see the big ones if you are the person who uploaded them. I can see a link to click on my own photos,...
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vitd295nm
May 11, 2005 7:06 pm
Yes the proper protocol in the fluorescent tanning lamp world is percent UVB of total UVR bandwidth... period. No adding up anything ... Even so, percent B is...
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vitd295nm
May 11, 2005 7:18 pm
On the UVB only graph... the Y axis would need to be expanded a lot to see any vitamin D effective differences. They both look like almost zero 290-300nm rays...
