Island Cove

Sandigirl, the ballast thing confusion was with the sundash equipment, and some ergoline only. there truely is 160 ballasts and lamps on all other makes of tanning equipment.

Sandigirl is right, you will only need one stand up. Most clients want to lay down and relax. In the 7 years of business, i have had to add more laydowns, never another stand up. They are almost always the least used unit.

Levels, in my opinion, base, 100-120 watt beds, no more than 32 lamps (unless your in a very rich area) at least 2 of them. For your next level, 160 watt, 40 lamps minimum for a true UPGRADE jump. Stand up is on the same level also as this bigger unit, and last level, High pressure. putting anything inbetween is a waste of time in my opinion. You need to give the customer a reason to upgrade. Going from a 32 lamp 100 watt unit to a 36-38 lamp 100 watt unit with a couple facials is a joke. its a bit wider. Thats it. When your talking 100 watt lamps, you talking high burning, lots of sessions needed to get tanned. And usualy but not always 20 minute sessions. If a 100 watt lamp is 15 minutes, even more burning. When you go to a 160 watt lamp unit, usualy max tan time is 15 min or less, no more ( shouldn't be) and you have much more browning on these units, so your clients only need max 3 sessions a week instead of the ever other day on a 100 watt bed. for you this meens you can acomidate that many more DIFFERENT clients per month which = more $$. High pressure is a whole different world, a must in my opinion to make serious cash and put yourself above and beyond your competition.