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My Astro turns from purple to pink when the (halogen reflector) bulb is on so I'm also looking into that matter.
I put brown baking paper on the bulb but the halogen spot heat is greater than an oven's and burned a hole in it.
I also tried the same with a piece of black cleaning cloth I got for my glasses but it's nylon so it melted/burned, stuck on the bulb and stunk.
I've been thinking of trying a coin-type object to mask the light but its temperature at the top would have to be similar to the one on top of the reflector. Also, the reflector is not flat so it would be hard to keep the 'coin' from falling at the bottom of the lamp's base.
Two ideas I haven't tried yet are 'ND' (Neutral Density) photo filters ideally made of glass (I have seen plexiglass ones online) or some similar dark glass pieces and - of course - the stage lighting gels mentioned above.
I hope this will help others in the same situation and would welcome any other ideas.
Have a nice day.
Over the last 6 + years of additional ideas on other posts and topics I would say that a ceramic heater would work just fine, as long as it is sized correctly and a dimmer is used to prevent excess heat.
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Nico said:
Thanks, I'm still looking for these posts :D
I was afraid of that. Thank you very much for the warning
Tim Gill said:
Stage lighting gels won't work they will melt onto the halagon bulb and base and be very hard to get off espshaly if you use ones that have a low light let through
The only realistic way is to use a ceramic heater I think someone did try this with a heater from a pet reptile supply shop I don't know how successful this was but it is harder then expected to use alternative heat sources for lava lamps
@ Tim I still use a ceramic heater on my UV grande which works great. Unfortunately they don't make the ceramic bulb in a smaller version so they only fit on grande bases.
@ Reszound - I've done this before using a little bit of a higher wattage bulb (then normal) and covering that in tinfoil to block the light. It works just fine.
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