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Old 03-02-2016, 11:52 PM   #1
Ozric Jonathan
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Default Arcadia 24 watt D3+UV flood compact

http://www.reptiles.swelluk.com/rept...od-375071.html


I've found this to be a good product. It's small for the amount of uvb it produces and is also a good price and replacement lamps for the unit can sometimes be had for £20 from Swells.

With a long T5 D3+12% tube we need a lump of a power supply, but somehow this is made tiny for the compact job. So the whole thing is light and simple to deal with.

What I found though is that the life of the lamp is much less than it is for the T5 D3 12% tube. This surprised me because I thought the tube was basically a bent T5, making it compact instead of linear. I haven't got any organised data but feel on solid ground as I've replaced 3 of these compact uv sources in recent months after finding that the uvb had dropped off quickly.

The linear T5 on the other hand seems to blast out uvb endlessly. Maybe the technology didn't transfer quite so well to the compact design.

It's still a good product, just needs a new tube more often than I expected.
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