Arcadia 100w

[Arcadiajohn]

Originally Posted by caledonia

Ed, a 160w bulb will usually produce more heat than a 100w but the Arcadia 160w is designed (as claimed by Arcadia) to produce less heat than most other 160w bulbs. How they do this I don't know, possibly the coating on the glass or something but anyway, I have 2 of them and found that it is in fact the case...

"It is important to note that our 160w lamp provides huge amounts of safe UVB with no UVC and a much lower heat emmision. Our lamp uses the latest in lighting tech to achieve this. The 160w will give you great UV readings with less chance of over heating your animals"

Apart from that, I have 25w low energy bulbs that are cool enough to actually touch and 15w normal bulbs that are too hot to touch so they don't all produce the same heat

Hello one and all, yes we have designed the lamps to emit less heat, this is because of keepers using then inside vivs, what we wanted and have achieved is a lamp with good high levels of u.v, a high lux reading but giving a gentle heat. The life span of the lamp is also very long compared to most that isnwhy we garentee for one year. The 100w is roughly half the power of the 160w depending on the lamp, as you know M.V lamps are hand made and vary
slightly from one to another, this is normal and Q.C controlled.

John