Sunrise and sunset gradual, seasons that flow by themselves. You connect the controller, choose the species, and your bird breeding lives out its natural year without you having to touch anything.
A lighting controller does two things. The first is obvious: give enough light to rooms that get little light. The second is the reason why breeders really buy it: anticipate curves, i.e. moving the subjects' entire biological year forward.
A canary goes to brood when the day reaches thirteen hours of light. In nature it happens around mid-March. Those who wait for March find themselves with newbies finishing the moulting season that has already started, and arrive at the exhibitions with subjects that are not ready.
Those who construct the day artificially mate in mid-February, close the moulting in the summer and in October have finished, feathered, rested subjects in the cage. Furthermore, it is possible to avoid having nestlings in the nest during the hottest weeks of the year.
We start from the date of the exhibition and go back. Each step depends on the one before, and they all depend on the hours of daylight.
Short day, subject to rest. From here the light starts to grow again, while outside it is still decreasing towards the solstice.
Small, consistent increments, week after week. It's the step that you can't master by hand: it's three months of continuous adjustments.
Below twelve and a half hours, fertility collapses. At thirteen hours the subjects are in condition, about a month ahead of the natural cycle.
The day continues to grow throughout the hatching period, as it would as it approaches the solstice.
It begins approximately forty days after birth and lasts six to eight weeks. It is the account that decides everything: from here you understand whether the subject will be ready or not.
Gradually reducing the hours triggers moulting when you need it, not when the weather decides. Then we descend towards rest.
Finished subjects, in full down, rested for weeks. It's the only time the year's work can be seen.
Indicative values taken from the current practice of Italian breeders. Each species and each bird breeding has its own story: our species tables start here and adapt to your environment.
Choose one of our ready-made tables by species or set the Personal Program 1 or 2 directly on controller.
Neon, incandescent or LED light bars. Dimmable output for Sunrise and sunset, ON/OFF output for the rest. Clear terminals, replaceable fuses, no surprises.
365 days already written. The controller keeps the time, manages the ramps and changes the days by itself. You control the results, not the schedule.
The controller for a 230 V. It drives the mains lamps with gradual Sunrise and sunset, and with the ON/OFF output it can control the power supplies that power the LED light bars. With AstroGPS Timer knows where it is and what day it is, and reconstructs the true sunrise and sunset of your location on its own.
SOL-7000 for lamps 230 V; SOL-LED and SOL-LED Plus for low voltage bars. The Plus adds the control of external relays and the connection of light sensors.
For mains voltage systems. Directly drives 230 V lamps - neon, incandescent - with gradual Sunrise and sunset.
Price and availability in the product sheet
See SOL-7000For low voltage systems. Work mainly with LED light bars to 12 or 24 V, not with the network.
Price and availability in the product sheet
See SOL-LEDThe same functions as SOL-LED, with the added possibility of driving external relays and connecting brightness sensors.
Functions, links and settings in the manual.
Discover the functions of SOL-LED PlusFrom the cage wall to the choice of light: prepare your system with a preview 3 D and a bill of components to evaluate together.
Approximate preview and sizing, to be checked before confirmation.
Choose how to change the times of Sunrise and sunset to your bird breeding.
Set the initial times of Sunrise and sunset, how many minutes to change them each day and for how many days to apply the change.
In the controller menu: «Personal».
Discover the personal program 1Set the start times, end date and target times. The controller automatically calculates intermediate steps day by day.
In the controller menu: «Personal 2».
Discover the personal program 2Eight cycles built on the experience of breeders, not copied from a generic manual. They're free: watch them even if you don't buy anything.
Connections, programming, field tests. If something isn't clear, we film it.
The presentation video already exists in multiple languages: it is the ready basis for opening the site to foreign markets.
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