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The specifics once you already know what you're looking at: electricity use, dimensions, what each apparatus actually is. Looking to compare options first? See our buying guides.

Nicebeam Time Machine open multicolor LED light therapy arch

LED Light Therapy Guide: How to Choose Colors and Devices

Understand LED light therapy colors, device formats, wavelengths, output, controls, and safety before choosing an at home setup.

Elite Steel Base Pilates Ladder Barrel

What Is a Pilates Ladder Barrel? Uses, Benefits and Home Practice

A padded curve and a wooden ladder, no springs and no carriage. How a Pilates Ladder Barrel works, how it differs from a Spine Corrector and what to compare.

Classic Wunda Pilates Chair in gray

What Is a Pilates Chair? Wunda, Combo and Baby Chair Explained

A Pilates Chair concentrates spring resistance beneath a padded seat. Wunda, Combo, Baby and Electric Chair explained, with the mechanisms that separate them.

Wooden Cadillac dedicated Trapeze Table

What Is a Pilates Cadillac? A Home User’s Guide to the Trapeze Table

A Pilates Cadillac is a stable table inside a full spring frame. Compare the dedicated Cadillac, the Cadillac Reformer and the Reformer with Tower before choosing one for your home.

Elina Pilates reformer for home

How to Choose a Pilates Reformer for Your Home

Compare space, storage, springs, body fit, frame materials, Tower options and setup before choosing a Pilates Reformer for your home.

Wall receptacle and electrical connection for a home infrared sauna

How Much Electricity Does an Infrared Sauna Use?

The three models compared here cost about $0.37 to $0.50 per modeled session, and $6.36 to $8.74 a month at four sessions a week. See the formula and run it with your own electricity rate.

Infrared sauna installed in a home room, showing how much floor space it takes

Infrared Sauna Dimensions and Electrical Requirements

Exterior footprint, interior space, delivery route and the electrical circuit. Five checks before you choose, and three cabins that show a one person, a two person and a corner layout.

Interior of a full spectrum infrared sauna showing the heating panels and emitters

Full Spectrum vs Far Infrared Sauna: Choose the Right Wavelength

Far infrared gives you the long wavelength. Full spectrum adds near infrared in the same cabin. Warmup, EMF with its measurement distance, electrical requirements and four models side by side.