Todnedo
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One major question I guess that needs to be asked her is is there a plan of using a double ended metal halide bulb or a single end mogal screw in style
Mogal socket bulbs come with an already uv protective glass on surrounded the gas element so very little uv passes through I've been personally along with a couple others at the university have been testing the iwasaki 6500k, 250w and 400w we are also testing the GE 6,000k
We have not concluded on results yet but when we do I'll post it up with graphs results and writes up on each should be within a week or so!
Now on to the Double Ended metal halide bulbs these come as a bare bulb with no uv protective glass so the bulb is burned between a reflector and a uv protective piece of glass that reduces the amount of uv exposure without this piece of glass things become uv burned very quickly as its a full spectrum of uv radiation
this is why me and my colleague Feel this type of bulb will give us the most promise for being able to tweak the radiation output wavelengths of these types of bulbs based on the different mixtures of glass and different sand and iron elements to help block out certain wavelengths of uv radiation while allowing certain wavelengths to pass through!! So while this is all in beginning stages it is all going to be backed by lab grade equipment and resources!
But to conclude what we've seen so far the GE 6,000k 250w mogal socket metal halide bulb is showing the most promise we are also working out a deal with them to try to alter a few of the uv protective glass surrounds on the bulbs with documented chemical alterations to the glass so we can figure out what will give us the best uv output within the safe range!!
@evil like I said been at this a while Most mogal socket bulbs block out 85-98% uv radiation to be safe to sell to the general public on the other hand the double ended bulbs put out a full spectrum of uv from about 130-520 on average depending on the type of bulb so these bulb will be the ones that will be easily altered and relatively cheap because the glass used to keep the uv output in a usable wavelength will be able to be kept for up to 10 years and you'd just have to replace the bulb and it will always be at your required wavelengthsmaybe I cleared some stuff up maybe I lost some but I hope this helps!
I would like to see test done on repti sun 5.0 and 10.0 What kind of test and graphs will you be doing?
