First attempt at a 24-hour "Martian Method"

[salmayo]

Sal, don't you think the halogen is more efficient in the red, farred, and Infarred than the Incan?

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Yes they most certainly do, but in my conception at least the Halogen is an Incandescent, just a better version of one, and I would in fact refer to it as a Halogen Incandescent or Incandescent Halogen lamps, not to mention Quartz Halogen lamps witch are the same thing only then their hyping the envelope material. I think marketting of "Halogen" lamps is a bit pumped up since they are barrowing a bit from (metal) Halide fame, before the "Halogen" marketting hit the automotive industry, "Quartz" bulbs were the best and often considered reserved for only high performance applications like motorcycle and 4X4 Off Road Vehicle lamps, but then again they Quartz bulbs, just the better ones.

But, I also agree with Dogznova somewhat, since he makes an excellent point:

Halogen does seem to be more efficient in those areas but halogen lights would only be able to be used during your (blue light) on time or your clear INC on time. Halogen lights go to far below 500 nm to replace PAD lights such as red,orange,yellow,black and (green with a filter) INC's. Hope that helps. I'm sure Sal will post a better explanation then I. :thumbsup:

I agree that the over the counter colorred "Party" bulbs are the cheapest and easiest Far Red PAD sources you can ahold of, but once you've got the PAD bug moving on to a more advance set-up allows you to use more efficient sources with better cooling provisions.

I do use Halogen's as much as possible and since I'm a huge fan of air cooled hoods and cool tubes, and I use sealed (ducted) air cooled hoods as much as possible while running Incandescent (~Halogen) type Far Red sources.

So BillyJoJimBob, I'm sorry if I left some confusion as to the desirability of Halogen sources verses standard Inc.'s, but again I consider them the same thing basically and colorred Halogen's aren't out there at the moment and I doubt they ever will be (no serious demand). Even the better collored Reptile Far Red bulbs are just better quality glass Inc.s, but if Halogen colorred bulbs do come out, I bet they'll probably be top of the line Reptile lamps.