Red Heat Bulb vs Infrared Bulb?

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I'm sorry I confused you. Some waves we see as light, some waves we don't see, but other species can see and some waves don't get seen.

Some sound waves we can hear and some we can't hear, but other species can.

It just depends on how the part of the body that senses them, developed. We've developed a lot of technology to be able to observe these different waves, even when we can't see or hear them with our own bodies.
 
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Where do you get a red heat lamp bulb for $5.00? If you want to use the ceramic heat emitters, be sure and check on the site I mentioned in a previous post. They are at least 30% less than the poultry supply house and pet store prices.
 
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Everything has the ability to emit light if you heat it up enough.
You should look through the peephole of a cone 10 kiln some time. Everything inside is glowing in both the IR and visible light frequencies. Different materials are glowing with different colors and intensities of course. If you put your dinner plates inside and heated them up they too would emit both IR and visible light.

A filament embedded in the ceramic generates the IR energy. The ceramic in the lamps isn't generating the IR energy its just transmitting it, while filtering out the visible light frequencies and protecting the filament.
 
I have a ceramic one in the brooder right now. I had it in the coop over the water for the girls and had no freezing issues.

I like it since it emits no light. I think mine is a 75wt. one. It seems to be just enough to keep the little ones warm.
 
Maybe this should be a new topic...am I to understand I can leave my infrared heating lamp on in my little coop all night? This won't upset their chicken nature and make them think it is day all night? It is quite a cold snap right now 20F or lower all night, and I don't want their water to freeze solid. My infrared light shows a red light, not a white one...but a light nonetheless.
 
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Where do you get a red heat lamp bulb for $5.00? If you want to use the ceramic heat emitters, be sure and check on the site I mentioned in a previous post. They are at least 30% less than the poultry supply house and pet store prices.

I just picked one up at Tractor Supply for just under $5 (before tax). The same bulb at Wally World was almost $10.
 

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