All You Need To Know About Tanning Bed Parts
June 6, 2010 by Peter Eritreo
Filed under Skin Care
Daily maintenance as well as an appropriate hygiene of the tanning bed parts will ensure the good functioning of a tanning bed. The most important tanning bed parts are going to be summarized further on.
The main elements of a tanning bed are the Ultraviolet bulbs. They contain silicon in crystal form and emanate a small quantity of ultraviolet rays which cause the skin to get tanned. These tanning lamps come in lots of varieties, among which Cosmedico, VLR, Wolff, VHR, Voltrac, 9K9. Traders who sell tanning beds will also be able to provide the necessary tanning bed parts. If you want the bulbs to work with your tanning bed, first you must check their specific features in order to find the mandatory similarities. You should also be attentive to the estimated lifetime of the lamp. It may last for one thousand hours as the Wolff sunbulb does.
In some cases, the UV beams might be propagated from the back and lateral of the sunlamp. Mirrors can be of help to prevent that from occurring. Most of the times they have W”-like shapes and are made of shiny, smoothed aluminum. The UV bulbs may cause terrible burns, so the tanning bed has an acrylic shielding which neutralizes this effect. Only a harmless quantity of UV radiation is allowed to penetrate. Still, the shielding of the tanning bed gets old with the passing of time. This is why, when necessary, it must be changed with a brand new one, which will call for some money spending.
Another tanning bed parts of major importance are the 4 ventilators, whose role is to maintain a certain temperature on the interior. If such elements did not exist, the whole system would get excessively hot and would break easily. The tanning bed fans are disposed axially and they are functioning on 110 or 220 V. Among the most common models, mention should be made of carriage and squirrel cage ventilators.
In order to measure the time spent on a tanning bed, each of these products have a timer. Depending on the system, every tanning bed is conceived to have an upper limit of exposure on its timer. The typical amount of time allowed on a tanning bed is no longer than 20 minutes.
In accordance with FDA, a timer with a limited exposure time is a must in the States, otherwise such a tanning bed cannot be commercialized.
Before you buy tanning bed parts online, make sure you check Mr. Eritreo’s free link to a video on Indoor Tanning Tips, and more information about tanning beds and tanning bed parts at Tanning Bed Parts in general.