Marie713

I have two Sunstar 332zx3F. They are currently running a 20 minute tan time. For my busy season I am thinking of converting them to a 15 minute tan time and upping the lamp strength. Does anyone know if this will make a significant difference with heat? or weaken acrylic faster? Is this even possible with this type of bed? Thanks!

House of Tan

Yes and no.

You can but you will also assume complete liability for that unit once you do that. Most insurance policies will not allow this and in a regulated state you will be fined and possible shut down. The FDA will also be on you for labeling if you do not change that as well and have it re-certified.

Not a good idea. Just sell them and get 15 min units.

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sunsally

If you are in a regulated state - No. This bed was never made for anything other than a 20 min time frame. Some other units (e.g. Sundash, Heartland, Tan America) make their units in multiple time frames and so for these it would be possible in a regulated state.

If you are non-regulated, you can do anything you want. Whether on this particular unit it would cause problems, I do not know.

House of Tan

What about the FDA? She would be changing the tanning time, thus the bed would need to be re-labeled.

Then, you would also have issues with insuring it as well.

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Brian Oshman

Nonsense. Salon owners have been changing tan times since the beginning of time. You need to add a reflector lamp. It will not cause any adverse affects to the bed. Electrically it is the same and heat load is the same. The lamps are close enough together to use reflector lamps without striping. If you are regulated then it will not pass inspection.

parrot head

If you convert, make sure you set your t-max pro to 15 minutes, and not error and give someone 20 minutes.

suncitypembroke

Help me to understand something. A 20 min bed i want to use for less time 15min, so I change the lamp to 160 watt on top leave the bottom at 100 watt.Now thebed is operating 5 min less but the increase of 60 watt x 16= 960 watt. The Med output is the same ???? and u are tanning less.What the problem??? it like burning rubber,fast for a short distance.

sunsally

If you left the same ballasts in, it won't change a thing. 160W lamps driven by 100W ballasts aren't going to produce anything different than 100W lamps driven by 100w ballasts.

Brian Oshman

Actually a 160 watt lamp driven at 100 watts would have lower output than a 100 watt equivalent driven at 100 watts with the same phosphorus blend. The cathode in a 160 watt lamp is longer and is designed to tolerate the higher power and if run at 100 watts the lamp would run colder than a 100 watt equivalent and have lower output due to lower operating temperature.

Also, wattage is consumption, not output. Lamp output is measured in mW/cm² and only a small portion of the consumed wattage is transferred into UV output. The rest is wasted on heat and visible light.

sunsally

^^^^^

Ok, so in layman's terms....is it accurate that the "performance" (output) that you are expecting from a 160W lamp will NOT happen if it is put in a bed with 100W ballasts?