Tanning Bed Lamps


by Owen Jones


Tanning bed lamps, as used in up-market tanning beds, are a big part of the secret to the Hollywood suntan. You can have any type of tan you want with the wide variety of bulbs available on the market for sun beds. There are deep-tanning lamps, bronzing bulbs, face lamps and plenty of others too. These high-tech bulbs employ the best technology to tan you comfortably and in safety.

Furthermore, there are different kinds of lamps for each kind of skin too. The sun bed industry produces different lamps for from dark to light skin colours. Besides that, you can decide to have a soft tan, a golden tan, a bronze tan, or the deepest tan imaginable. You can even swap the type of bulb, as your tan deepens, so that you can have all kinds of quite stunning results.

A tanning bulb is like having your own source of sunlight in a bottle. In fact, it is even better, because you are in control of it! Modern tanning bed lamps are manufactured to the strictest specifications and so are very safe. The tanning industry and the government have set strict rules to guarantee your safety. So, if you carefully follow the instructions supplied with the bulbs, you can feel sure that you will not be putting your health at stake in order to look like a Hollywood film star.

The UV rays they emit are well within prescribed safety limits to make sure you remain healthy and tanned. Furthermore, there are plenty of choices open to you, ranging from UVB and UVA combinations to straight UVA. It is your choice! So, why not get a little extra tan?

Tanning bulbs are ultraviolet-emitting units that serve as the primary element of the various kinds of tanning beds and booths on the market. Tanning bed bulbs have as their main use the enhancement of a cosmetic tan, although these bulbs also have a reputation for the successful treatment of eczema and psoriasis. The depth and colour of the tan produced, depends on the spectrum of light created by the tanning lamps and the overwhelming majority of them give out more ultraviolet light than the sun does.

Nearly all sunbed lamps use a device called a 'ballast' to regulate their power consumption. The ballast stabilizes the flow of electrical energy inside the lamp and is needed in order to make sure that the bulbs use only the necessary amount of wattage that they need in order to work properly.

There are different kinds of tanning bulbs on the market including reflector sunbed bulbs and high output lamps. Most lamps fall into two main categories: high pressure and low pressure types. (Within the tanning industry, it is usual to refer to high pressure tanning lamps as bulbs and low pressure tanning bulbs as lamps). Both high and low pressure tanning bulbs require a lack of oxygen in its housing.

High pressure tanning bulbs range in length from three to five inches and operate with 250 to 2,000 watt ballasts, although 400 watt high pressure tanning bulbs are the most common. They are usually incorporated in the face tanning compartment of a tanning bed. High pressure tanning bulbs are most often manufactured from quartz glass and an extra specialized coating, which is essential to filter out the lethal UVC ultraviolet rays.

HP tanning bulbs contain a small amount of mercury or argon and produce ultraviolet light in high concentration. The handling of high pressure tanning bulbs should be carried out with a great deal of care and never with naked hands, because even a tiny amount of oil from your hands will cause the bulb to fail prematurely or even crack and the resultant spillage of mercury is potentially dangerous. High pressure tanning bulbs ought to be replaced after about 1,000 hours although they will continue to produce light for up to 10,00 hours

Low pressure tanning lamps are much like ordinary fluorescent lights, but the glass tube of low pressure tanning bulbs automatically filters out UVC ultraviolet rays. Low pressure bulbs have a useful lifespan of between 600 and 1,600 hours with 1,000 hours being the norm again.




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