corvette

In the post more tan more heat you were mentioning the ambient room temp,what would the optimum actual lamp temp be, I always heard that it should be around 105 degrees f.If we had a controler monitoring the actual lamp temp with a thermalcouple and was zoning the air to the bed you could keep the bed at optimum temp.just wanted to get your input.

Don Smith

Corvette:

Good question.

Buy yourself an inexpensive Infrared thermometer ($60.00) at Radio Schack (#22-325) and make your own measurements.

Put a piece of velcro on the back of the thermometer and on a plastic ruler cut off at 25 cm (you can also use the ruler for attaching a hand-held radiometer).

We measure the following:

1. The "ambient" temperature of the room (it is very interesting to monitor the change during a tanning session).

2. The temperature in the sunbed at 25 cm above the mattress or bottom acrylic.

3. The temperature "at the glass" (at the surface of the acrylic). To to this, hold the thermometer 3 inches away from the acrylic (that is the "focal distance" of the unit).

4. Take off the canopy acrylic and hold the thermometer 3 inches away from the bottom surface of the sunlamp. This gives you the "wall temperature" of the sunlamp.

The "trick" is to make sure that all of your tanning rooms maintain approximately the same room temp and "in the sunbed" temperature. We have found that running a A/C vent down to about 12 inches above the floor at the head and foot of the bed brings the "cool" air down where it can do some good.

Hope this helps.

Don