About Tanning Bed Bulbs

Tanning bed lamps, as used in salon tanning beds, are a big part of the secret to that perfect suntan. You can have any depth of tan you want with the wide range of bulbs available for tanning 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 safely.

Furthermore, there are different bulbs for every kind of skin too. The sun bed industry produces different lamps for dark to light skin colours. On top of that, you can choose to have a light tan, a golden tan, a bronze tan, or the deepest, darkest tan anyone has ever seen. You can even change the type of bulb, as your tan deepens, so that you can achieve all kinds of quite amazing results.

A tanning lamp is like having your own sun in a bottle. In fact, it is even better, because you can control it! Modern tanning bed lamps are made to the highest specifications and are also very safe. The tanning industry and the government have set strict guidelines to ensure your safety. So, if you carefully follow the instructions supplied with the product, you can be sure that you will not be putting your health at risk to look like a film star.

The UV rays that they emit are well below the proscribed safety limits to make sure you remain healthy and tanned. Furthermore, there are plenty of choices open to you, varying from UVB and UVA combinations to straight UVA. It is simply up to you. So, why not give the sun a helping hand?

Sun bulbs are ultraviolet-emitting units that serve as the primary component of the various kinds of tanning beds and booths on the market. Tanning bed lamps 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 vast majority of them give out more ultraviolet light than the sun does.

Practically all tanning lamps use a unit called a ‘ballast’ to regulate their power consumption. The ballast stabilizes the flow of electrical current inside the lamp and is required to make sure that the bulbs use only the exact amount of wattage that they need in order to work properly.

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

High pressure tanning bulbs vary 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 popular. 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 additional specialized coating, which is necessary to filter out the lethal UVC ultraviolet rays.

These HP tanning bulbs, containing mercury or argon, produce ultraviolet light in high concentration. Handling high pressure tanning bulbs requires a great deal of care, because even a tiny amount of oil from your hands can cause the bulb to fail prematurely. High pressure tanning bulbs should be replaced after about 1,000 hours even though they will shine for up to ten times longer.

Low pressure tanning lamps are very similar to normal fluorescent tubes, but the glass tube of low pressure tanning bulbs naturally filters out the harmful 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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