Face Lamps! Wattage!

[boobrandt]

I tanned this morning in a bed (not the "biggest" one they have btw). I read the specs on the machine. It has 52 160 watt bulbs, and 4 1000 watt face bulbs. I was surprised at the face bulb wattage. Is this the norm? (I'm thinking I'm glad I put my feet under them instead of my face!)

[TravisMT81]

wow that sounds really high. What kind of bed is that, I love facial bulbs LOL'

[boobrandt]

I swear, if I had gotten more than 2 hours of sleep last night....Powersource maybe? It will come back to me later, I'm sure. There is a "big" bed there that has 20 face bulbs in the canopy (that I have used) and am wondering if those each have 1000 watts. If so, their biggest bed is cranking out about 22000 watts or so. Yikes!

[meltdbutta]

1000 watt facials are typical in many tanning beds...
Some have 500 Watt bulbs...and some have the 1000 watt bulbs...

I know for a fact that some of the Dr. Mueller Orbit beds have 4-1000watt facial bulbs....

melty

[TravisMT81]

the diva5 has 4 500 watt facials

[Anya1976]

the facial bulbs usually have very low uvb

[boobrandt]

I checked the big bed out today (nice color I got too!). It has 4 1000 watt facial bulbs, 16 500 watt bulbs in the canopy also, plus 28 160 watt bulbs (I'm sorry LAMPS!) for a grand total of 16,480 watts of uv pumping out.

[krystalj]

I'm from a small town, so I really don't have alot of options when choosing a tanning salon. So the one I'm at only has two kinds of beds. There are two with face tanners and one without. The one without is always booked up and I was wondering your feelings are on the face bulbs.