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How to use a home solarium without borrowing another lamp's minutes

Updated: October 2026

You have chosen one lamp from this amazon.co.uk set, and you want a number: how far, how long, and whether sunglasses will do. The listings do not share one answer. This page on how to use a home solarium stays with the distance, the timer, and the eye line printed for that model. A Philips face-tanner manual, which is not one of these ten products, caps a timer at 60 minutes, sets 10 cm, and starts every skin type at 9 minutes. None of these listings prints 9 minutes or 10 cm. The rows are on the [home solarium comparison](/hub/steam-baths/solarium). A qualifying purchase can earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

You have chosen one lamp from this amazon.co.uk set, and you want a number: how far, how long, and whether sunglasses will do. The listings do not share one answer.

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Funthy Funthy 001 LED panel

Best overall

Funthy Funthy 001 LED panel
6.2/10about £49.99
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Eurosolar Eurosolar 9212 facial tanner

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Eurosolar Eurosolar 9212 facial tanner
6.5/10about £399.00
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Hocomay Hocomay red and near-infrared stand

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Hocomay Hocomay red and near-infrared stand
3.3/10about £29.99
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On this page
  1. 1.Do not borrow another lamp's minutes
  2. 2.Distance and timer, listing by listing
  3. 3.Eyes, skin, and when to stop
  4. 4.A first session only if the page gives you the numbers

Do not borrow another lamp's minutes

Seller copy inside this set already disagrees with itself. One red-light stand talks about 20–30 minutes. Another, on a similar wavelength pair, talks about 5–20 minutes. A blue panel says 30 minutes. Averaging those into a house routine would invent a session none of the pages printed. Which family you bought is on the home solarium buying guide. A figure counts only when it is on that listing, or when a review quotes that model's manual and says so. If the page leaves distance or minutes blank, the blank stands. If yours is 660 nm and 850 nm, do not run a sunbed script on it. If yours is 460 nm and 490 nm, do not call the session an ultraviolet tan.

Distance and timer, listing by listing

Several seller lines cluster at 30–50 cm: the Axelrivet stand, the Hocomay stand, Funthy's lamp, the BTSAE four-head stand at £74.99, and the full-body claim on the Jitesy £39.99 panel. That last panel also prints 16–20 cm for a local area. The BTSAE panel at £39.99, the one that prints 460 nm, says 20–30 cm. Those are seller distances. They are not a dose we measured, and they are not interchangeable. Three listings print no distance at all: the Jitesy four-head stand at £109.99, the Jitesy three-panel set at £159.99, and the Jitesy pad at £209.99. Hocomay prints steps of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 minutes. Axelrivet prints a 5–30 minute timer. Funthy, both 45 W panels, the pad, and the tube bullets do not print a timer. Tube reviews describe five-minute steps and a first session of five minutes for every skin type. Use that only as a review of the Eurosolar manual, and only on that canopy. An LED listing that never says 48 hours does not inherit it.
Funthy Funthy 001 LED panel

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Funthy Funthy 001 LED panel
6.2/10about £49.99
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Eyes, skin, and when to stop

Goggles are named in the bullets for three listings: Hocomay, the BTSAE 460 nm panel at £39.99, and the Jitesy £39.99 panel. Funthy names an eye mask in the title and does not print a wavelength. Reviews of the tube tanner mention glasses or goggles; the stored bullets do not. For ultraviolet equipment, the Health and Safety Executive is plain. Suitable goggles are required. That warning is the right standard for a tube unit. It is not a reason to pretend a 660 nm stand is a sunbed. The NHS says there is no safe ultraviolet tan. Stop for a burn, eye pain, a changing mole, or a skin disease you hoped the lamp would treat, and phone 111 if the practice is closed and you need help sooner.

A first session only if the page gives you the numbers

Use a first session only when that listing gives you the pieces. You need its distance, not a neighbour's. You need its timer or its printed minute range, not an average of the table. If the skin burns, you stop. Hocomay states 30–50 cm, steps up to 30 minutes, and goggles, and the printed light is 660 nm and 850 nm, so that sitting is not an ultraviolet tan. The BTSAE 460 nm panel states 20–30 cm and goggles, and it does not print a timer, so the distance alone is not a session. The tube canopy's stored bullets omit distance, timer, and goggles. A review quotes 25 cm, five-minute steps, and 48 hours. If you use those figures, you are trusting a reviewer's account of a manual, and you still carry the NHS warning.

Common questions

How far should I sit from the lamp?
Use the distance on that listing. Do not move a number from one row to another. The £109.99 four-head stand, the three-panel set, and the pad print no distance. A review of the tube tanner quotes 25 cm from its manual.
Are fashion sunglasses enough?
Not for ultraviolet tanning equipment. HSE guidance says you need suitable goggles, and that closed eyes or cotton wool do not count. An eye mask in Funthy's title is not the same sentence. If your listing does not name protection, do not assume the parcel includes it.
Can I use the same routine on the red-light stand and the tube tanner?
No. Axelrivet and Hocomay print 660 nm and 850 nm, with their own distances and their own minute claims. The only session detail in this file for the Eurosolar canopy is a review of its manual, including 25 cm and 48 hours. Those 48 hours do not transfer to an LED listing that never states them.
What if the listing has a timer but no distance?
You still do not have a place to sit. The Jitesy four-head stand at £109.99 names a timer and does not print the steps or a distance. A timer without a distance is half an instruction. Wait for the sheet in the box rather than borrowing 30 cm from Funthy.
When do I stop and speak to a clinician?
Stop for a burn, eye pain, a changing mole, or any skin disease you hoped the lamp would treat. NHS inform points you to a GP, or to 111 if the practice is closed and you need help sooner. Do not start an ultraviolet source from this page if you are under 18, pregnant, on a photosensitising medicine, or have melanoma in the family.

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Sources

Public UK sources used for this comparison. Listing prices, stars and review counts are the amazon.co.uk figures saved for these ten ASINs on 20 October 2026.

  1. Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010 (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  2. GOV.UK, sunbed safety advice (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  3. NHS, sunscreen and sun safety (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  4. Cancer Research UK, how sunbeds cause skin cancer (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  5. HSE INDG209, controlling the risks from UV tanning (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  6. ASA, beauty and cosmetics: sunbeds (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  7. NIH, vitamin D fact sheet for health professionals (retrieved 20 October 2026)
  8. DHSC, strengthening the regulation of commercial sunbeds in England (retrieved 20 October 2026)