Quote Originally Posted by Dogznova
The guys at Temporal Photonics know a little more about Inc Black lights then me..

This page talks about the use of black lights as a FAR RED source in a PAD 24hr Martian setup... Based on your post I don't think you have read the PAD manual... Give it a look see, you might find it interesting...

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See, now you mention incandescent blacklights. That's the issue that confused me. When you mention a light source, please mention what type of lighting it is. Camera Flashes can count as blacklights since they emit UV radiation. That doesn't make them a blacklight.

All of our company's spectral equipment shows that a good UVA fluorescent blacklight will not show IR until the 1000+ nm range, where it's being caused by the electrodes. Maybe that's because we're only buying high-quality tubes and perhaps that means our tubes have more precise and tuned filtering.

Out of curiosity, why spend the extra cash on a blacklight incandescent when a regular cheap incandescent would work? In fact, for this, if you wanted IR, you're likely better off with halogen lamps. They even throw off UVB radiation so your potency would jump.