By kristent mon feb 13 2012 8 12.
Vivarium heat bulb keeps blowing.
Normally when the headlights are used more often chances are they will also burn out easily.
Headlights are vital as they help us to drive during the night.
Basking bulb keeps blowing out.
The wire connections inside your bulb holder.
Most thermostats operate like a heat controlled switch full on full off.
So three things to look into if your bulbs keep blowing.
I keep quite a few high temp lizards collared lizards uros and a couple of savs in 10 different largish enclosures and i use a mix of regular incandescent and halogen full spectrum spots for the basking and heat bulbs.
This explains why the nature of the headlight matters.
As a last resort you can also check the tightness of the connections in your switch.
In simpler terms they are a source of security on any modern car.
Main causes of headlight bulbs blowing the type of bulb.
By blowing i m assuming you mean the lamp keeps burning out and not actually exploding.
It s really cold here too so i ended up putting taz s chi heat bulb in the main basking lamp and using a clamp lamp with a regular bulb a clam lamp that has yet to eat any of the bulbs.
If the spring loaded connectors are working properly inside the bulb holder.
Bearded dragon s heat bulb keeps blowing.
Firstly the wattage of the lamps used is generally for outside use as they need to give off a certain amount of heat in a vivarium the heat cannot escape and so burns out the filament winding however this is the intended use of a high wattage lamp in a vivarium i use these with my iguana.