Tanning Bed Lamps

By Gail Jones

Sun bed lamps, as used in up-market tanning beds, are a large part of the mystery of the perfect tan. You can have any depth of tan you require with the wide range of lamps 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 sorts of lamps for every 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 light tan, a golden tan, a bronze tan, or the deepest tan imaginable. You can also swap the type of lamp, as your tan deepens, so that you can have all kinds of quite stunning results.

A tanning lamp is like having your own sun in a tube. In fact, it is even better, because you can control it! Modern tanning bed lamps are made to the highest standards and are also 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 product, you can feel sure that you will not be putting your health at risk to look like a film star.

The UV rays that they produce are within the proscribed safety limits to make sure you stay safe, healthy and tanned. Furthermore, there are lots of choices available to you, ranging from UVB and UVA combinations to only UVA. It is quite simply your choice. So, why not choose your tanning bed bulb and give the sun a helping hand?

Sun lamps are ultraviolet-emitting devices that act as the primary element of the various sorts of tanning beds and booths on the market. Tanning bed bulbs have as their main purpose 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 tanning produced depends on the spectrum of light produced by the tanning bulbs and the vast majority of them produce more ultraviolet light than the sun.

Nearly all tanning 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 required to make sure that the bulbs use only the necessary amount of wattage that they require in order to work effectively.

There are various types of tanning lamps on the market including reflector sunbed bulbs and high output lamps. The majority of 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, 400 watt high pressure tanning bulbs are the most common. They are usually incorporated in the face tanning component of a sun bed. High pressure tanning bulbs are usually made of quartz glass and an additional specialized coating, which is necessary to filter out the very harmful UVC ultraviolet rays.

These HP tanning bulbs, containing mercury or argon, create 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 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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