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Sun bed lamps, like you find in up-market tanning beds, are a large part of the secret to that Hollywood suntan. You can have any depth of tan you desire with the wide range of bulbs available on the market for tanning beds. There are several types of lamps, such as deep-tanning lamps, bronzing bulbs, face lamps and plenty of others too. These high-tech lamps utilize the latest technology to produce a tan evenly, and above all, safely.

Furthermore, there is a different bulb for every kind of skin too. The tanning bed industry produces different lamps for dark to light skin colours. On top of that, you can have a soft tan, a golden tan, a bronze tan, or one the deepest of darkest tans you have ever seen. You can also change the type of lamp, as your tan progresses, so that you can achieve any combination 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 may feel confident that you will not be putting your health at risk to look like a 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 pure UVA. It is your choice! So, why not get a little extra tan?

Sun bulbs are ultraviolet-emitting devices that act as the primary element of the various types 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 emitted 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 ensure that the bulbs use only the necessary amount of wattage that they need in order to work effectively.

There are different kinds of sunbed bulbs on the market including reflector sunbed lamps and high output lamps. Most lamps 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 in 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 popular. They are usually incorporated in the face tanning component of a tanning 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.

HP tanning bulbs contain a small amount of mercury or argon and produce ultraviolet light in high amounts. 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 can cause the bulb to fail prematurely or even break and the resultant spillage of mercury is potentially dangerous. High pressure tanning bulbs should 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 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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