Tanning Bed Bulbs

Tanning beds or sunbeds are wonderful devices that help you get tanned as per your liking while not having to expose your body skin to the sun for hours. These devices contain bulbs or lamps that produce the ultraviolet rays that are responsible for bringing about the tanning. With time the old tanning bed bulbs may lose their effectiveness and need to be replaced.

Replacement after every 500 hours of usage (i.e. about 4 years) is suggested. However, carrying out of replacement of the tanning bed bulbs may not be an easy task.

The tanning bed lamps or tanning bed bulbs can be usually classified in two basic groups- low pressure and high pressure. In the industry it is the high-pressure units that are generally referred to as bulbs while the low-pressure units are called lamps though there are no hard and fast rules regarding such reference. The tanning bed bulbs are some 3 to 5 inches long and are powered by ballast with 250-2000 watts. It is the 400-watt type that is most commonly made use of. These high pressure tanning bed bulbs make use of quartz glass and seek to produce a very high amount of UVA emission only i.e. the ultraviolet rays of the A type. Purple quartz glass helps filter out the harmful and often deadly UVC rays as also the UVB rays.

Inert gas such as argon and mercury are contained in the high pressure tanning bed lamps. It is because of the mercury content in the bulbs (that is toxic) that a lot of care needs to be taken in case the bulbs get broken.

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