Vivarium Heat Bulb Keeps Blowing

The wire connections inside your bulb holder.

Vivarium heat bulb keeps blowing.

Bearded dragon s heat bulb keeps blowing. Normally when the headlights are used more often chances are they will also burn out easily. Main causes of headlight bulbs blowing the type of bulb. So three things to look into if your bulbs keep blowing.

Most thermostats operate like a heat controlled switch full on full off. This explains why the nature of the headlight matters. If the spring loaded connectors are working properly inside the bulb holder. By blowing i m assuming you mean the lamp keeps burning out and not actually exploding.

By kristent mon feb 13 2012 8 12. The timer and the lights plug into the surge protector. 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. My gut response without being able to take a look at your setup is that your lamps are being worn out prematurely by too much off and on.

Basking bulb keeps blowing out. As a last resort you can also check the tightness of the connections in your switch. Just play around with the wattage until you hit the temp range your lizards need and make sure you use fixtures with. 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.