Tanning Bed Ballast Troubleshooting

To test your ballast you would install a new working lamp and turn the unit on.

Tanning bed ballast troubleshooting. If you experience problems with your sunquest tanning bed there are several troubleshooting steps you can perform to identify the problem s cause. A loose wire at the ballast or at the lamp holder or at the terminal. To test and see if this is the reason your tanning bed is not performing up to par you should try this method. For the loose wire the owner may just tighten the loose connection.

Regardless of which type you have a bad ballast is a problem for a tanning bed. We have used a sunquest bed in the demonstration but for the most part all the t. If the tanning bed uses 230vac european ballasts choke there is the remote possibility that a ballast has gone bad. If the ballast is good an analog multimeter has a needle that will sweep to the right across the measuring scale.

If the unit fails to light but you know the bulb is good the next step is a process of elimination to find out if it is the ballast. Two or three lamps in a row quit working. They were all working and then the bed was moved in the back of a pickup and some of the lamp holders on the top section broke where they clip to the top and so i replaced all of them. My main skills are machinist welder mechanic but i am not so good with electrical issues.

The owner should not attempt to fix it by himself. One probe of the multimeter should touch the hot wire connections while the other touches the neutral wire connections. Measure the distance between the back of the tanning bed and the wall to ensure there is at least 6 inches of space. If the tanning bed is not new try the methods above to determine or rule out the problem being seating lamp starter or wire.

Learn how to change a 100 watt of 160 watt choke ballast for a tanning bed. I am working on a 24 bulb tanning bed where 2 bulbs will not light. For any malfunctioning part of the tanning bed the owner will need to replace it.