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Spectrum taken from graph from manual, digitization errors expectet!

Measurement

Brand Cosmedico
https://www.cosmedico.de/ German brand for tanning lamps, lamps are produced by Narva in Germany
Lamp Product Rubino
Lamp ID SW32 (09/2022)
generic lamp id, spectrum taken from manual
Spectrometer -
Ballast - no ballast or default/unknown ballast -
Reflector
Distance 0 cm
Age 0 hours
Originator (measurement) Manufacturer
Database entry created: Sarina Wunderlich 7/Sep/2022 ; updated: Sarina Wunderlich 7/Sep/2022

Colorimetry

Colorimetry is the science to describe physically the human color perception. The wavelength range 380 nm - 780 nm is visible to humans and detected by three different photoreceptors. Many Reptiles see the range 350 nm - 800 nm and have an additional UV photoreceptor in their retina.

WARNING: The measurement range (350 - 800 nm) is not sufficient for this evaluation! Data is only available in the range 251.4572539 - 401.8458549 nm. Results are shown anyway but should be ignored by anyone except experts.

Spectrum in the visible wavelength range

Whereas a spectrometer measures the intensity in every tiny wavelength interval resulting in thousands of individual intensities, the human eye only measures three intensities detected by the three cones. The same is true for the reptile eye with usually three or four photoreceptors. Effectively the detailled spectrum displayed above reduces to a much compacter bar graph displayed below. The photoreceptor sensitivites from these L-Cone, M-Cone, S-Cone, and U-Cone are used, they are chosen as an average of measured reptile photoreceptor sensitivity curves. The bar graph also shows as reference the intensity seen by the three or four photoreceptors for average sunlight (id 1).

From these three numbers the colour coordinate and the correlated colour temperature for humans are calculated using the CIE standard method. I adapted this concept to a "3 cone reptile (M,S,U)" and a "4 cone reptile (L,M,S,U)". I am sure, that this adaption to other colour spaces makes sense mathematically and this is also done in scientific research regarding colour vision of animals, however I have not seen calculation of colour temperatures for other animals in the scientific literature. Even if it is hypothetical, at least this shows, how arbitrary the colour temperature is, and that the colour temperature calculated for humans does not apply to reptiles. The colour spaces also show the colour coordinates of different phases of daylight ((ids 1, 338451, 511513 ), indicated by crosses, coloured in the appriximate colour perceived by a human.

Human (CIE) 3 cone reptile 4 cone reptile
Cone Excitation
Colour Coordinate ( 0.17 ; 0.0051 ) ( 3.7E-5 ; 0.0081 ) ( 3.9E-6 ; 3.7E-5 ; 0.0081 )
CCT 0 Kelvin 0 Kelvin 0 Kelvin
distance 0 0
colour space 3-D-graph not implemented yet

Vitamin D3 Analysis

Vitamin D3 is produced by UVB radiation around 300 nm. 7DHC/ProD3 present in the skin is converted to PreD3 when absorbing an UV photon. PreD3 can be converted back to ProD3, to Lumisterol, or to Tachysterol when absorbing another UV photon or can be converted to Vitamin D3 in a warm environment.

This process prevents any overdose of vitamin D3 from UV radiation with a spectrum similar to sunlight. As a comparison the solar spectra at 20°(id:14) and at 85°(id:21) solar angle are shown.

Spectrum in the vitamin D3 active wavelength range

The ratio of the two solarmeters 6.2 (UVB) and 6.5 (UV index) readings has proven a useful and very simply number to acess the spectral shape in the vitamin-d3-active region.

Effective Irradiances

Effective irradiances are calculated for all ranges, actionspectra and radiometers currently present in this database.

The calculation method is a numerical implementation (Simpson's rule) of the formula

To learn more about calculating effective irradiances and radiometers I recommend this excellent report on UVB meters: Characterizing the Performance of Integral Measuring UV-Meters (pdf).

The numbers in the following tables can also be used to estimate certain (effective) irradiances from radiomer readings. Example: If the database lists

  • range: UVB (US) = 13.8 µW/cm²
  • radiometer: Solarmeter 6.2 = 19.6 µW/cm²
then any Solarmeter 6.2 reading multiplied with 0.7 (0.7=13.8/19.6) is an estimate of UVB irradiance for this specific lamp. If you do so, always make sure, that the calculated (effective) irradiance is valid. The calculated value is not valid, if the lamp's spectrum is not measured in the relevant range.

Ranges
total ( 0 nm - 0 nm) 139 µW/cm² = 1.39 W/m²
UVC ( 0 nm - 280 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
non-terrestrial ( 0 nm - 290 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
total2 ( 250 nm - 880 nm) 139 µW/cm² = 1.39 W/m²
UVB (EU) ( 280 nm - 315 nm) 4.7 µW/cm² = 0.047 W/m²
UVB (US) ( 280 nm - 320 nm) 8.51 µW/cm² = 0.0851 W/m²
UVA+B ( 280 nm - 380 nm) 135 µW/cm² = 1.35 W/m²
Solar UVB ( 290 nm - 315 nm) 4.69 µW/cm² = 0.0469 W/m²
UVA D3 regulating ( 315 nm - 335 nm) 21.6 µW/cm² = 0.216 W/m²
UVA (EU) ( 315 nm - 380 nm) 130 µW/cm² = 1.3 W/m²
UVA2 (medical definition) ( 320 nm - 340 nm) 32.2 µW/cm² = 0.322 W/m²
UVA (US) ( 320 nm - 380 nm) 126 µW/cm² = 1.26 W/m²
UVA1 (variant) ( 335 nm - 380 nm) 108 µW/cm² = 1.08 W/m²
UVA1 (medical) ( 340 nm - 400 nm) 98.2 µW/cm² = 0.982 W/m²
vis. UVA ( 350 nm - 380 nm) 62.1 µW/cm² = 0.621 W/m²
VIS Rep3 ( 350 nm - 600 nm) 66.4 µW/cm² = 0.664 W/m²
VIS Rep4 ( 350 nm - 700 nm) 66.4 µW/cm² = 0.664 W/m²
purple ( 380 nm - 420 nm) 4.3 µW/cm² = 0.043 W/m²
VIS ( 380 nm - 780 nm) 4.3 µW/cm² = 0.043 W/m²
PAR ( 400 nm - 700 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
blue ( 420 nm - 490 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
green ( 490 nm - 575 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
yellow ( 575 nm - 585 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
orange ( 585 nm - 650 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
red ( 650 nm - 780 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
IRA ( 700 nm - 1400 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
IRB ( 1400 nm - 3000 nm) 0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
Actionspectra
Erythema 0.171 UV-Index
Pyrimidine dimerization of DNA 2.54 µW/cm²
Photoceratitis 0.264 µW/cm²
Photoconjunctivitis 0.00132 µW/cm²
DNA Damage 0.00483
Vitamin D3 0.681 µW/cm²
Photosynthesis 0 µW/cm²
Luminosity 0.000815 lx
Human L-Cone 0.000116 µW/cm²
Human M-Cone 0.000104 µW/cm²
Human S-Cone 0.0026 µW/cm²
CIE X 0.0241 µW/cm²
CIE Y 0.000701 µW/cm²
CIE Z 0.114 µW/cm²
PAR 0 mol photons
Extinction preD3 7.24 e-3*m²/mol
Extinction Tachysterol 26.3 e-3*m²/mol
Exctincition PreD3 4120 m²/mol
Extinction Lumisterol 0.29 m²/mol
Exctincition Tachysterol 50200 m²/mol
Extinction 7DHC 0.0828 m²/mol
L-Cone 0.000293 µW/cm²
M-Cone 0.00272 µW/cm²
S-Cone 0.605 µW/cm²
U-Cone 73.8 µW/cm²
UVR - ICNIRP 2004 0.0884 Rel Biol Eff
Melatonin Supression 0 µW/cm²
Blue Light Hazard 1.42 µW/cm² (1740000 µW/cm² per 1000 lx)
CIE 174:2006 PreVit D3 0.709 µW/cm²
Lumen Reptil 96 "pseudo-lx"
Vitamin D3 Degradation 1.47 µW/cm²
Actinic UV 0.0887 µW/cm² (1090000 mW/klm)
Exctincition Lumisterol 695 m²/mol
Exctincition 7DHC 210 m²/mol
Exctincition Toxisterols 1110 m²/mol
Broadbandmeters
Solarmeter 6.2 (UVB, pre 2010) 9.86 µW/cm²
Solarmeter 6.5 (UV-Index, pre 2010) 0.207
Leybold UVB 6.8 µW/cm²
Leybold UVA 102 µW/cm²
Leybold UVC 0 µW/cm²
DeltaOhm UVB 26.9 µW/cm²
DeltaOhm UVC 2.11 µW/cm²
Vernier UVB 1.63 µW/cm²
Vernier UVA 74.8 µW/cm²
Gröbel UVA 115 µW/cm²
Gröbel UVB 3.34 µW/cm²
Gröbel UVC -0.00251 µW/cm²
Solarmeter 6.4 (D3) 0.648 IU/min
UVX-31 35.4 µW/cm²
IL UVB 0.0053 µW/cm²
IL UVA 112 µW/cm²
Solarmeter 6.5 (UVI, post 2010) 0.195 UV-Index
Solarmeter 6.2 (UVB, post 2010) 7.07 µW/cm² (Solarmeter Ratio = 36.3)
Solarmeter AlGaN 6.5 UVI sensor 3.67 UV Index
GenUV 7.1 UV-Index 0.229 UV-Index
Solarmeter 10.0 (Global Power) 0.613 W/m²
Solarmeter 4.0 (UVA) 1.38 mW/cm²
LS122 0 W/m²
ISM400 0.083 W/m²