About Tanning Bed Bulbs
Posted by Gail Jones in Uncategorized, tags: acne, beauty, equipment, family, fitness, health, holiday, home improvement, other, self improvement, skin cancer, skin care, tanning, tanning beds, UncategorizedTanning bed bulbs, as used in up-market tanning beds, are a big part of the secret to that Hollywood suntan. You can get any depth of tan you desire with the wide variety of lamps available on the market for tanning beds. There are deep-tanning lamps, bronzing bulbs, face lamps and plenty of others besides. These high-tech bulbs employ the latest technology to tan you comfortably and in safety.
Furthermore, there are different lamps for every kind of skin too. The tanning bed industry produces different bulbs 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 kind of lamp, as your tan progresses, so that you can achieve all kinds of quite amazing 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 specifications and are very safe. The sunbed industry and the government have implemented strict rules 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 they emit are well within prescribed safety limits to ensure 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 lamps are ultraviolet-emitting devices that act as the main component of the various sorts of tanning beds and booths. 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 type of tanning depends on the spectrum of light emitted by the tanning bulbs and the vast majority of tanning bulbs produce more ultraviolet light than the sun.
Nearly all tanning bulbs 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 ensure 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 sale and include reflector tanning bulbs and high output lamps. Most bulbs fall into two main groups: 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 inside the tube.
High pressure tanning bulbs range 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 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 essential to filter out the very harmful 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 fluorescent tubes, but the glass that makes up low pressure tanning bulbs naturally filters out UVC ultraviolet rays. Low pressure bulbs have a lifespan of six hundred to sixteen hundred hours of use.
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