Help, smoke coming out of spray tan machine!

[ellejay]

:cry:
hello
Okay so i have just used my new spray tanning machine for the first time today. i read the manual cover to cover, i done all the pre start checks and then started. within a minute i thought i could smell burning but thought i was just imagining it but then within another minute i looked around me and my treatment room was full of smoke and there was smoke coming out of the gun. I got such a fright i jumped up and switched it off straight away. I tried to switch it back on again a few mins later and it started making this terrible noise and went dead. It all happened so fast literlly within 2 minutes. It is a HPLV VIP. I will contact the company first thing tomorrow as soon as I have had a few vodka's and change and wash my hair, the entire house everything stinks of smoke.

is this common ladies & gents have any of you experianced or heard of this happening before? I know i have just been unlucky and have got a faulty machine. But i am feeling a bit gutted now as i had been saving for ages to buy all the equipment to start spray tanning and now this.

Anyway feedback would be great, Elle x

 

[steve@nouvatan]

I have seen the hvlp vip machine on (a web site) it is also the same machine as the fake bake pig? and yes unfortunately i have heard of this happening before, a lot of the spray tan machines on the british market are manufactured in china and are designed to be marketed on the American market and built for American voltages there has been abundant threads on here about them breaking down going up in smoke ect I have a shed full of burned out machines T200 T100 and Piggys
If you live close to a distribution sub station you could have volts of up to 253v the American system is only 120v and although with a conversion the motors will run and run ok in some areas the motor windings are very fine almost hair thickness and they do fail regularly
We now only stock one machine And thats the british built HVLP 5008 it is manufactured to run at 230v and is cheaper to buy than the T200 as yet we have not had a single one returned and we have sold 100s :lol:
DONT TRY IT AGAIN !!! YOU COULD CAUSE A FIRE!! send it back to where it come from and hopefully the next one may be in better condition HTH

 

[leemac]

Hi

Poor you, i would have been "gutted" too! I have been saving up for ages for my equipment too so I can imagine how you must be feeling. Think you are right though, just unlucky with a fauly machine. Dont let it put you off, just get it exchanged over and start again.

Best of luck xx