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I am about to build a new inclosure for my trio of ackies. My problem lies in the heating/ lighting. I want to mount 2 or 3 bulbs in a row inside the cage. Would a regular porcelain light socket work? Also how exactly should I wire them? Thank you

>>I am about to build a new inclosure for my trio of ackies. My problem lies in the heating/ lighting. I want to mount 2 or 3 bulbs in a row inside the cage. Would a regular porcelain light socket work? Also how exactly should I wire them? Thank you

I just wire them in series. Depending on how have them controlled.

Parrallel works as well. Again it simply depends on how you control them.

For my large lizard enclosures fro days long gone. I built them in groups as an assembly. One plug and wired them in series together. Then this was plugged into timer. If you play with wattages and don't depend on them for anything more than basking spots (IE not heating the entire cage) they work great.

Combined with Rete's stacks...I saw super growth assuming I could afford to keep them feed...LOL
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Jeremy Payne
JB Reptile

1.0 Snow "Kahl"
0.2 Triple Het Moonglow "Kahl"
0.1 Orange Tail Hypo Het Leopard
1.0 Ghost
0.1 DH Ghost
1.1 "Kahl" Albino
1.0.2 Hypomelenistic
1.3 Pastel Hypo
0.1 Anerthrystic
0.0.1 Normal

0.1.1 Morelia Viridis

Mine are setup in a track lighting rail. I have 4 50 watt GU10 floods on gooseneck fixtures so that I can adjust the distance & direction to the basking spot. In the case of my enclosure, it does heat the entire enclosure. My temps range from 130F basking surface temp. to 85F-ish ambient in the middle, to 75F-ish ambient on the cool end.
If you're going to use full size (PAR38 or so) flood lights, they do make full size bulb fixtures for track lighting still, but you may have to do some looking. The only ones I've found recently are discontinued models at Menards.