Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:53 pm Re: Lighting
The MegaRay is supposed to be designed so it doesn't need the burn in period others do. That said, I did a ten hour burn in on mine, which is probably conservative.
This study is in much earlier versions of the MegaRay.
http://www.reptileuvinfo.com/html/mega- ... report.htmBut if you scroll down to figure 10, the rainbow bar chart, you can see that for most lamps tested the difference between 0.5 hours and 105 hours was minimal.
And, you are correct. The MVB lamp replaces your heat and flourescent UVB.
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