For anyone interested in Vitamin D3, UVB and humans, there is a delightful and very absorbing lecture from Dr Vieth, made in October 2005, with powerpoint...
Hi there Francis, What a very long but fascinating webcast. I would have to say that sessions six about vitamin D deficiencies in kidney disease was one of my...
does any one know anything about the LED light which are supposedly highting the market this year? There was a sort blurp on them on the last REPTILE magazine...
... LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) give "cold" lights from semiconductor diodes, in different colours. I have seen some giving out violet colours, with also some...
Hallo, You can look at http://www.roithner-laser.com/LED_cross.htm ... -- Hugo en Hanny Claessen Arthur Sterckstraat 18 B-2600 Berchem - Belgium Tel/Fax: +32 3...
I read that in Reptiles magazine also. The link you gave does show a few uv LED's in the nm needed for D3 if they could possibly use a coating or something to...
... These LEDs have actually quite a narrow range of wavelengths. For example, type UVTOP300 is from 295 to 305 nm, right in the UVB range (280 to 315 nm). So...
I noticed some have had a fascination with LED lights for quite some time having had some private conversations with some of the members about just this...
In various fora many people are stating that e.g. gecko's will not need UVb as they live on the bottom of the forests. Are there any data on UVb levels in the...
Hallo, I made measurements in the forest of Ecuador and Surinam. I have also an very interesting publication on UV-B: Vitamine D-content of the Eggs of the...
... hallo xavier we are way from generally using leds in terrariums: the efficiency is lower than halides up to now. only very expensive serial settings would...
Hi Folks, I was wondering if anyone had gotten a meter under the new ReptiGlo 10 tube yet? While I'm pretty confident it is going to be better than the 8.0 I'm...
Hi Hugo, Can you send me the interesting publication on UV-B Vitamine D-content of the Eggs of the Panther Chameleon Furcifer pardalis? Kindest Regrads, Kurt...
Hi, Hugo. Welcome to UVB Meters! Your recordings for Ecuador and Surinam would be really interesting... would it be possible for you to share them with us all?...
Hi, Frans. I took a set of recordings in Daintree tropical rainforest in northern Queensland in Australia last October. I've been meaning to write up some of...
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Here's some results for a 24" long, 1.5" diameter Reptisun 10.0 tube used for a full year in a vivarium, on a good quality, old-fashioned magnetic ballast. ...
Oh no, the email thing has messed up the table. Lets try again: Output in uW/cm2 at 12" distance. 30 mins - 41 3 hours - 35 Ten days (105hrs)- 33 1.5mths...
Frances... wonderful rain forrest pics and write-up. Great job. I saved it as webpage to email to Forrest Mims because he has visited similar areas too. ... ...
keep in mind that frances is reporting on one of the better tubes, the ZooMed brand. in general, in my testing, i've found them to be far superior to most...
Friends, Smoke from biomass burning in Brazil seriously reduces natural levels of solar UV-B. (Please see my web site www.forrestmims.org or search on my name...
Hi! Somebody take a measurement about this fluorescent?? For me "is that time in the year" when I need to replace stella's lights bulb and I tried to figure...
Frances, thanks a lot for these excellent recordings and this fine report! Whish I could go there some time! Frans Tielen www.RepTielenLampen.nl ... Daintree,...
... hi forrest, indeed uv-b has an impact on the defending flora as well as on the complex immune system (paraspecific-specific or innate-aquired corresponding...
Has anyone tested high pressure sodium or metal halide lamps that actually emit UVB (and UVA)? What brands, if any, do? Or - do they ALL make UV but have some...
... the standard mh lamps dont emit uv-b as the glass of the burner itself blocks it, but they emit uv-a and the spectral quality is superb. there is a mh in...
Hi, Steve. High pressure sodium lamps don't emit UV at all because excited sodium atoms dont emit in the UV range. Low pressure sodium lamps emit 99.5% of...
Hi, Garrobito. I've tested the ZooMed Reptisun 10.0 fluorescent tubes and also the ZooMed Reptisun 10.0 fluorescent compact lamp. But I have not yet tested a...
Here's an email I don't know how to answer. Does anybody here know? "I am interested in your Solarmeter Model 9.4 visible light meter for measuring blue light,...
