Ceramic broke, flood light problem.

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by murrindindi

Hi, you need to give details of what the ceramic heat emitter was used for and it`s wattage (basking surface or ambient temps)? What exactly are you confused about, surely if the temps are not now high enough you need more bulbs/wattage?

Infernalis said any 25 to 50w halogen bulbs should do the trick and I know a few other people who use halogen flood bulbs instead of ceramic heat emitters. My ceramic pumped out a shed load of hear but didn't cover enough of my Sav so the next idea was going to be use 3 halogen flood lights, this would give a greater radius of heat meaning more of the Sav would be heated up. However the ceramic is broke so I thought I may as well pop in the halogen flood bulb I already have, however it doesn't seem to pump out enough heat, I can't give an exact temp be aide he is lying on the probe, but I know from my ceramic that was controlled by a pulse thermostat that this halogen doesn't pump out no where near the heat of the ceramic. So my question is.. What am I doing different to other people who use halogen flood lights, I can't move it further down because I would run the risk of him pulling the socket away from the wires that power the bulb.