Aquafine Colorguard UV Lamps are specially manufactured with ceramic lamp bases. The ceramic material offers advantages over non-ceramic material such as greater high voltage electrical insulation, superior strength, rigidity, improved temperature tolerance, and are impervious to UV degradation. These lamps are exclusive to Aquafine and make mixing of different lamps types virtually impossible during change-out.

Low cost competitor UV lamps are sold with the promise of being "as good as Aquafine." Field failure of the lamps can and has gone undetected, until unacceptable bacteria counts have caused real problems. Aquafine's record is unmatched. The percentage of Aquafine UV lamps which fail is less than 0.05%.