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Originally Posted by MrBosc
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.
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O.k, here we go.... The ceramic heat emitters are fine for raising the ambient (air) temps either during the night or in the daytime, but if in relatively high wattages they dry out the surrounding air because the heat`s directed all around. The relatively low wattage halogen (flood) bulbs direct heat downwards so they are best for creating surface temps at the basking site. You only need to know two temps; the lowest ambient (air) @ approx 24c (75f), then the SURFACE temp at the basking site @ between approx 50 to 60c (120 to 140f), no other temp matters.
You will probably need 2 or 3 halogens to create the basking site, you`re trying to make one low wattage one do what the higher wattage CHE did, it will never work!
Can you tell me the usual ambient temp in the room the tank is in both day and night?
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