Ionic Air Cleaners: Can they handle heavy cigarette smoke ?

[polm]

My roomate is a smoker...I used to be one, and when we moved into the hose we live in I agreed that Cigarrettes would be allowed. This cannot change until re-lease in July...so for now....

I was thinking about a machine for "cleaning" the smoke out of the air.

Do these work ? What about other solutions ?

 

[MrBond]

They have one at the coffee shop I go to. It's a beast of a machine, some industrial job. Looks like an air conditioner attached to the ceiling. Apparently it doesn't work too well, because they're going no-smoking in two days

 

[SoylentGreen]

Do you smoke bones?

 

[polm]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Do you smoke bones?

bones ?

 

[DarkManX]

try an environizer from radio shack.

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: polm

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Do you smoke bones?

bones ?

LOL

 

[SuperTool]

In addition to inhaling carcinogens from second hand smoke, you will also be inhaling ozone, also a carcinogen.

 

[polm]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
In addition to inhaling carcinogens from second hand smoke, you will also be inhaling ozone, also a carcinogen.

ozone ? really ?

 

[RossMAN]

Buy a real HEPA filter (CostCo, Sears, Walmart, etc.)

The Sharper Image Ionic Breeze is a gimmick and it has no fan so it hardly moves air and it produces ozone indoors.

 

[SoylentGreen]

Those are expensive.

 

[Kanalua]

THis will work... http://www.filterqueen.com/fq/products.html, get one of the Air Filters, not the vacuum...it will do the job, I've got one, and it works nice!!!

 

[wfbberzerker]

from what i've heard, those ionic breeze thingys can't handle much of anything, let alone heavy cigarette smoke.

 

[dirtboy]

I have one of the SI ionic cleaners and got another one today. I don't smoke, so I can't say how well it works on smoke. Read the customer testimonials, on SI's site. All I can tell you is that the rooms the cleaners are in smell clean and I can breathe better. An added benefit is that I noticed that I don't have dust floating around anymore...

 

[dirtboy]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Buy a real HEPA filter (CostCo, Sears, Walmart, etc.)

The Sharper Image Ionic Breeze is a gimmick and it has no fan so it hardly moves air and it produces ozone indoors.

Mine move quite a bit of air.

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: dirtboy
I have one of the SI ionic cleaners and got another one today. I don't smoke, so I can't say how well it works on smoke. Read the customer testimonials, on SI's site. All I can tell you is that the rooms the cleaners are in smell clean and I can breathe better. An added benefit is that I noticed that I don't have dust floating around anymore...

Smell Clean = Ozone. Ozone is the "clean" smell.

 

[dirtboy]

Originally posted by: SuperTool

Originally posted by: dirtboy
I have one of the SI ionic cleaners and got another one today. I don't smoke, so I can't say how well it works on smoke. Read the customer testimonials, on SI's site. All I can tell you is that the rooms the cleaners are in smell clean and I can breathe better. An added benefit is that I noticed that I don't have dust floating around anymore...

Smell Clean = Ozone. Ozone is the "clean" smell.

Yep...but when I move the unit to another room, because I only had one until today, the other room still smells good, even after 12 hours of no filtration.

 

[SuperTool]

Hey, I love the smell of ozone just as much as anyone if not more, but supposedly it's carcinogenic, which is a shame, cus it smells so good.
There is a stairway at work that has ozony smell in it, I think from the electrical equipment. I love walking there.

 

[Goosemaster]

The ionic breeze also produces OZONE as a product of charging paritcles that pass through


ozone=not good

 

[dirtboy]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
Hey, I love the smell of ozone just as much as anyone if not more, but supposedly it's carcinogenic, which is a shame, cus it smells so good.
There is a stairway at work that has ozony smell in it, I think from the electrical equipment. I love walking there.

At first I wasn't sure about it, now I think I am addicted to it. I love coming home, going into the room where it's been running and taking in the smell....ahhh....

Until I got the Quadra, I never really knew what the smell of ozone was like.

 

[SuperTool]

Maybe I should go into business and make an air freshener that smells like ozone but isn't carcinogenic.
I would call it "Ozonette"

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
Maybe I should go into business and make an air freshener that smells like ozone but isn't carcinogenic.
I would call it "Ozonette"

How about Diet Ozone?

 

[tcsenter]

The Sharper Image Ionic Breeze is a gimmick and it has no fan so it hardly moves air and it produces ozone indoors

The Ionic Breeze scored at the bottom of the heap in Consumer Reports tests. It has good filtration efficiency, but it hardly moves/exchanges enough air to be as effective as other units costing the same. It is quiet, that is the trade-off. Electrostatic cleaners must be cleaned far more often that HEPA filters because the filtration efficiency of the plates begins to significantly decline as the plates become dirty.

It produces very little ozone so that's a minute consideration, but then with the ground level ozone we already have, it's hard to justify a device that is actually producing indoor ozone.

 

[numark]

Much cheaper to buy a laser printer and keep that thing running nonstop. Cheap ozone production and that fresh toner smell