Sunday, April 22, 2012

Tanning Bed Lamps

By Owen Jones


Tanning bed lamps, as you find in up-market tanning beds, are a big part of the secret to that perfect suntan. You can get any type of tan you require with the wide variety of bulbs available on the market for sun beds. There are several types of lamps, such as deep-tanning lamps, bronzing bulbs, face lamps and plenty of others besides. These high-tech lamps employ the best technology to produce a tan evenly, and above all, safely.

Furthermore, there are different lamps for each 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 also change the type of bulb, as your tan progresses, so that you can achieve all kinds of quite stunning results.

A tanning bulb is like having the sun in a tube. In fact, it is even better! Modern tanning bed lamps are made to the highest standards and are very safe. The tanning industry and the government have set strict guidelines to ensure your safety. So, if you follow the instructions supplied with the product carefully, you can be confident that you will not be risking your health to look good.

The UV rays that they emit are well below the proscribed safety limits to ensure you stay healthy and tanned. Furthermore, there are lots of choices available to you, ranging from UVB and UVA combinations to just UVA. It is simply up to you. So, why not give the sun a helping hand?

Tanning lamps are ultraviolet-emitting devices that act as the main component of the various sorts of tanning beds and booths. Tanning bed lamps 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 type of tanning depends on the spectrum of light produced by the tanning bulbs and the vast majority of tanning bulbs produce more ultraviolet light than the sun.

Nearly all tanning lamps use a unit 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 need in order to work effectively.

There are different kinds of tanning bulbs on the market including reflector sunbed bulbs and high output lamps. Most bulbs fall into two main categories: 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 require 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 often included in the face tanning component of a tanning bed. High pressure tanning bulbs are made of quartz glass and an additional specialized coating, which is essential to filter out potentially deadly UVC ultraviolet rays.

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

Low pressure tanning lamps are very similar to ordinary 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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