Introduction
There are a bunch of LED lamps claiming to emit UVB light for reptile purposes. But how they are reacting and doing its jobs. Is it health to the reptile?
Several types of LED UVB lamp.
These are the most common available bulbs when talking LED lamp for reptile.
It is a very nice option in fixture=outlook selection when taking this bulb into the application,”Small”, “highly integrated “, and “easy adapting to the base:eg, E26 in North Amerian, E27 else in the world”.
But the fact is: Many professional reptile owners and keepers highly DISLIKE this lamp, of this shape, not particular any brand. Because of its bad UVB spectrum=wrong spectrum; short life span of light=broken shortly, several months some feedback.
Why are these LED bulbs broken so short rather than 20K hours, 50K hours, or 100K hours as we hear from the common world?
Main reason of the wrong spectrum of an LED reptile UVB lamp
First, talk about how there will be a wrong, bad light spectrum, in a LED factory’s view.
1. Cheaper diode. LED of UVC(peak wave 280nm) is cheaper than UVB. UVC is largely applied in daily small electronics handy equipment for disinfection, especially for the years 2020,2021,2022 for pandemic reasons. When UVC is highly required in the market, the diode supplier (to be exactly chip supplier)end will produce more and offer more, which leads to lower costs. When people start to produce UVB lamp in LED, as UVB 310-365 requirement is not that high, which lead to high cost. So for some, we are not saying all, will choose to use UVC as a replacement of UVB lamps, as it will also indicate data at a UVB meter.
Mainly reason of LED malfunction: poor heat management.
The heat kills the UVB reptile lamps.
LED lamp is surely the most friendly lamp during the ages of lighting fixture history. Got a solder, is all you need to finish the job.
This gives lots of opportunities for small teams to manufacture a LED lamp. At the same time, they believe it is simple and no need for any technology. And it surely runs quite well for many normal daily lightings since 2010 till now. For the reasons of white light LED longer and longer life span, and higher and higher electronics-to-optics efficiency, cheap LED lamps did work and last for a while.That is enough to blind most of the importer, wholesalers even users to believe, cheap lamp also works!
UVB diode gives much more heat than a normal white light diode, which needs to be carefully dispatched
Conclusion
We need check the light spectrum before choose a reptile UVB lighting.
We need to verify a UVB lamp to have enough heat management.
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