Full Spectrum lighting for her play area

[bill_e]

Nothing really special here but I wanted to add some full spectrum light over her play area since the light at the cage does no good most of the time because she's out.

I purchased a Zoo Med AvianSun Deluxe Floor Pet Lamp for $30 off Amazon. It get's crappy reviews but I believe those came from the old model...plus it's Amazon Prime so I could return it if junk.

Anyway, the lamp arrived the next day and I put it together. It is a very well made fixture for a 3 piece floor lamp. No sectional lamp pole is going to be a solid as a one piece unit but this one is very solid.....provided you make sure you tighten the screw together sections. If they are not tight by even an 1/8" of a turn it will be loose. If I was going to use it as a floor lamp which would be moved around for cleaning etc I would have probably put some blue Locktite on the threads of the sections.

The lamp does not include a bulb but I had some ALZO 27W Full Spectrum CFL Light Bulbs so I used one of those....4 of them are cheaper than one Zoo Med bulb.

The lamp turned out to be the right size for use on my tabletop but the base was too big to get the lamp pole into the corner where I wanted it so I simply removed the fixture form the base and screwed into a piece of wood which in turn was screwed to the tabletop.

Once I had the base made and secured to the lamp, I just placed it where I wanted it and screwed it down.

 

[psychocircus91]

Just commenting and subscribing so I can look more closely later. Keep us updated on how you like it

 

[Flboy]

Nice, for bulb replacements, I would go with the daylight LED!

 

[bill_e]

Nice, for bulb replacements, I would go with the daylight LED!

I don't see any LED's for this horizontal fixture. I could use LED over my cage as it's just a pendant light.

 

[SailBoat]

Nice, for bulb replacements, I would go with the daylight LED!

I don't see any LED's for this horizontal fixture. I could use LED over my cage as it's just a pendant light.

You're kidding, right? LED's can be placed at any angle. As with any light bulb, never used one greater than the rating of the fixture!

FYI: If that CFL bulb breaks, the shower of toxic stuff (read the warning documents) will cause great harm to your Hank Head.

 

[bill_e]

Nice, for bulb replacements, I would go with the daylight LED!

I don't see any LED's for this horizontal fixture. I could use LED over my cage as it's just a pendant light.

You're kidding, right? LED's can be placed at any angle. As with any light bulb, never used one greater than the rating of the fixture!

Hmm, learn something new every day! Seriously though, all the LED Full Spectrum bulbs I've ever seen are of the spotlight design, designed to be hung in a pendant so not of use in this fixture.

FYI: If that CFL bulb breaks, the shower of toxic stuff (read the warning documents) will cause great harm to your Hank Head.

Yea, Thanks, I understand that. After over 45 years in manufacturing and production houses which are lit primarily by FL, I have never seen or heard of a fluorescent bulb spontaneously breaking. Is it possible, yea, I suppose if the fixture overheats it's possible but I believe that the number one cause of broken bulbs is dropping them upon installation or replacement. I did shoot one by mistake in my shop but that's another story . Luckily Nike wont go near it, she is not the inquisitive type. (notice the unmolested speaker in the pics)

By the way, years ago when I was doing some Navy Nuk stuff, any time a bulb broke the company had to perform a bunch of test to assure their Mercury Free cert was still valid.

 

[Flboy]

Ah, not talking "full spectrum", talking daylight bulbs! 65000k range! Not the UV rich bulbs sold at 5-10 times the price! I use the white light through out my house! To some, they appear blue at first!

 

[bill_e]

Sailboat, after I replied I did a Google search on CFL bulbs and did find some references to them exploding or catching fire. But nothing that would change my mind as there are just a few reported instances out of the tens of millions in service. (72% of US homes use some amount of CFL)

 

[bill_e]

Ah, not talking "full spectrum", talking daylight bulbs! 65000k range! Not the UV rich bulbs sold at 5-10 times the price! I use the white light through out my house! To some, they appear blue at first!

My bulbs are nowhere near UV rich and I'm OK with that. I'll look into them further.

 

[Flboy]

By the way, years ago when I was doing some Navy Nuk stuff, any time a bulb broke the company had to perform a bunch of test to assure their Mercury Free cert was still valid.

Funny, as a child, we always had sword fights with the long tubes! And a bit ashamed to admit, as a UL tester for emergency lighting, when bored, we would throw lamps at each other!

 

[SailBoat]

Sailboat, after I replied I did a Google search on CFL bulbs and did find some references to them exploding or catching fire. But nothing that would change my mind as there are just a few reported instances out of the tens of millions in service. (72% of US homes use some amount of CFL)

Bill: Your Home! Your Parrot! Your Choice!

You presented what you are doing, I presented my concerns.

FYI: The most common failure (breakage) is as a result of handling, not present in those numbers. 72% is correct, but the numbers are falling rapidly because the light continues to dim and flutter with age.

Enjoy!

 

[bill_e]

I think the number is falling because of the growing market share of LED...new technology being heavily pushed by the manufacturers. Bulb operation notwithstanding, if CFL was cheaper to make, CFL would be highly marketed and the most popular bulb.

What was interesting to me was of the three types of bulbs, Incandescent, CFL and LED, both incandescent and CFL where each was the only bulb used in the household, both held about 10-12% of the households. LED has grown to 29% and I read that one manufacturer, Phillips maybe, was shutting down the CFL line. Makes sense as the profit margin on LED has to be huge as compared to CFL.

 

[wrench13]

Nuks huh? We got parts on every 688 class sub. Been on a few, too. Salty's got a full spectrum light over his cage/ boing. Bright as hell.

 

[SailBoat]

I think the number is falling because of the growing market share of LED...new technology being heavily pushed by the manufacturers. Bulb operation notwithstanding, if CFL was cheaper to make, CFL would be highly marketed and the most popular bulb.

What was interesting to me was of the three types of bulbs, Incandescent, CFL and LED, both incandescent and CFL where each was the only bulb used in the household, both held about 10-12% of the households. LED has grown to 29% and I read that one manufacturer, Phillips maybe, was shutting down the CFL line. Makes sense as the profit margin on LED has to be huge as compared to CFL.

Okay but remember when the CFL tubes (4') was going to be shut-down by the EPA! And, then energy saves became big and the micro tubes came to the market when the EPA relented with a stay on the shutdown. Whatever manufacturer, they all have serious problems holding color range with rejects commonly found in the marketplace sold in discount packages.

The LED marketplace is feed by government efforts to force energy companies to off-set their cost of manufacture. Better said, reduce costs to the consumers. This places CFL's at a cost point disadvantage, allowing EPA to cause marketplace forces to eliminate CFL manufacturing.