things said:banning incandescent bulbs??????? i never heard of that ban??.
Solar-powered heat. It's hot in most of Australia most of the time, isn't it? So don't even use an electric solar panel, just let the water heat from the sun in a tank and have a small heating element to keep the water temperature just right before it enters the enclosure. You could use piping, but you could even just let the water flow through the enclosure in a luke-warm pond, as long as you're mindful of evaporation, condensation and the greater rate at which the water will cool.Any other ideas?
Hank Fletcher said:Solar-powered heat. It's hot in most of Australia most of the time, isn't it? So don't even use an electric solar panel, just let the water heat from the sun in a tank and have a small heating element to keep the water temperature just right before it enters the enclosure. You could use piping, but you could even just let the water flow through the enclosure in a luke-warm pond, as long as you're mindful of evaporation, condensation and the greater rate at which the water will cool.
Nigel Goodwin said:so what are you supposed to do with dimmers?.
Night0wl said:Some good ideas there peeps, thanksI recall someone in a reptile forum talking about alternate heating some time ago but can't find where I saw it. He mentioned using the heat from hot water passing under the enclosures, maybe connected to a solar hot water system?
things: The bulbs are on 24/7 for young snakes and as they get older the night time cycle starts and the bulbs are then only on for about 12 hrs/day. The enclosures vary in size from 90cm (W) x 60cm (D) x 60cm (H) to 120cm x 60cm x 60cm. A couple of them are taller than wide, being approx 70cm (W) x 60cm (D) x 100cm (H). The heated end must get to 30 - 32 deg/C and they don't require light, only heat.
Any other ideas?
theinfamousbob said:I'm guessing the dimmers will become PWM based, and after the bulb starts up it should be fine?
I know, it's a silly idea but what can you do?Nigel Goodwin said:Your wonderful prime minister came up with the idea a while back!, I suspect more for political reasons than anything else? - it made the news right round the world!.
I've never heard of that happening here in the UK.The UK seem to be following suit, there are due to be banned in about 18 months here - so what are you supposed to do with dimmers?.
Ever heard of eBay, mail order?Night0wl said:Anyway, in Australia the government is banning incandescent light globes and in the near future (approx 2 years) they will apparently no longer be available.
If you see any IR LEDs rated at 25W and emit most of their radiation in the mid infrared region where it's most use for heating then I'd like to know where you can buy them from.bloody-orc said:maybe IR LED'sthey give out IR radiation, what comfortably happens to be the same as heat radiation. Or maybe you can cool your PC to that terrarium venting all that warm/hot air to the reptiles .
Nigel Goodwin said:Your wonderful prime minister came up with the idea a while back!, I suspect more for political reasons than anything else? - it made the news right round the world!.
The UK seem to be following suit, there are due to be banned in about 18 months here - so what are you supposed to do with dimmers?.
where do you live? as i think someone allready said, maybe you could link the enclosures together, or in groups with some pipe, and just have one central heating enclosure. that way you only need one heaterNight0wl said:It does get hot here in Summer, but winter is very cold and where I live the day's top temp usually only gets to around 10deg/C, with little sunlight. Overnight temps can fall below 0deg/C
things said:where do you live? as i think someone allready said, maybe you could link the enclosures together, or in groups with some pipe, and just have one central heating enclosure. that way you only need one heater
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