"Ionic Breeze" air purifier

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

That is one of the most stupidest replies I have seen this week.

The irony is killing me.

Whatever "test" they did, they are wrong.

I can tell you from first hand experience that over the course of a semester, my IB has removed more dust and crap from the air in my dorm room than I thought possible. The big balls of dust under our couch first semester never re-appeared. I didn't have to clean an inch of dust off my desk every month. The room smelled extremely clean and fresh all the time.

My mother has one in her room. We live in an old house with a lot of dust and mold. Her room has probably the best air in the house now. Her allergies has decreased drastically. The dust removed from her room is startling.

I don't care what test they did, they obviously fvcked it up, because they are flat out wrong. The IB has drastically improved the air quality in my house. I don't see why you don't believe first hand experience, I really don't.

 

[bonkers325]

ionic breeze is ideal for small rooms (like dorm rooms or small bed rooms)

it will NOT work in big rooms (kitchen, living room, den)

there should be a thing that specifies how many cubic feet it will clean in an hour. i have one, it works well in small size rooms (my room is about 10ftx10ft)

edit: for big rooms use HEPA filters, not electrostatic ones.

 

[Shelly21]

I got one from that Sharper Image, about 4 years ago. While I was cleaning it, I snapped one of the plastic film/wire and broked it.

They took it back and gave me a newer model for free. I purchased a watch just because I feel bad about it.

 

[Gurck]

I have no respect for Consumer Reports since they rated a Sony product highly about a decade ago, I get the impression they take a bit of 'green persuasion' here & there. Some unmentioned benefits of ozone are that it helps plants grow, and many people claim it buoys their spirits. I'm particularly interested in its effects on dust, it's really bad at my place and I've been toying with the idea of getting an ionic air cleaner. HEPA is too much of a hassle and too loud for me.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Gurck
I have no respect for Consumer Reports since they rated a Sony product highly about a decade ago, I get the impression they take a bit of 'green persuasion' here & there. Some unmentioned benefits of ozone are that it helps plants grow, and many people claim it buoys their spirits. I'm particularly interested in its effects on dust, it's really bad at my place and I've been toying with the idea of getting an ionic air cleaner. HEPA is too much of a hassle and too loud for me.

It works wonders on dust, seriously. My dorm had terrible dust first semester. I mean awful. In 1 day we'd get a thick layer of dust on everything in the room. There were huge wads of dust under everything. My computer sucked in so much that it broke the fan on my video card. After I got my IB, I dusted about once a month to get the stray dust airborn, and that was all I needed. No more wads of dust.. computer was great.. cleaned a pound of dust off the collection blades about every week. It's great.

 

[MrScott81]

hey MacBaine....ConsumerReports didn't say it didn't work, it basically just said it didn't work as fast as other filters....however since you probably lived in a small dorm room, it probably works just fine

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: MrScott81
hey MacBaine....ConsumerReports didn't say it didn't work, it basically just said it didn't work as fast as other filters....however since you probably lived in a small dorm room, it probably works just fine

I didn't read it... I was just going off of Iron's post containing

the studies concluded that running an Ionic Breeze in a room had NO observable effect on air quality.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: MrScott81
hey MacBaine....ConsumerReports didn't say it didn't work, it basically just said it didn't work as fast as other filters....however since you probably lived in a small dorm room, it probably works just fine

I didn't read it... I was just going off of Iron's post containing

the studies concluded that running an Ionic Breeze in a room had NO observable effect on air quality.

That's right, kill the messenger.

CR said it did diddly compared to others.

Just read the damned report already.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: MrScott81
hey MacBaine....ConsumerReports didn't say it didn't work, it basically just said it didn't work as fast as other filters....however since you probably lived in a small dorm room, it probably works just fine

I didn't read it... I was just going off of Iron's post containing

the studies concluded that running an Ionic Breeze in a room had NO observable effect on air quality.

That's right, kill the messenger.

CR said it did diddly compared to others.

Just read the damned report already.

I'm not killing the messanger, I'm telling them that the message is wrong.

Do you think reading a report telling me that it doesn't improve air quality is going to change my opinion when I know for a FACT that it improved my air quality?

Either that or you are stating something different than what the article stated. first it's "It didn't do diddly", then it's "It didn't do diddly compared to others"

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: MrScott81
hey MacBaine....ConsumerReports didn't say it didn't work, it basically just said it didn't work as fast as other filters....however since you probably lived in a small dorm room, it probably works just fine

I didn't read it... I was just going off of Iron's post containing

the studies concluded that running an Ionic Breeze in a room had NO observable effect on air quality.

That's right, kill the messenger.

CR said it did diddly compared to others.

Just read the damned report already.

I'm not killing the messanger, I'm telling them that the message is wrong.

Do you think reading a report telling me that it doesn't improve air quality is going to change my opinion when I know for a FACT that it improved my air quality?

Either that or you are stating something different than what the article stated. first it's "It didn't do diddly", then it's "It didn't do diddly compared to others"

Quote:

THIS YEAR'S ADDED TESTS AND RESULTS
Long-term air cleaning. We tested the Sharper Image Ionic Breeze and the Honeywell Environizer against two high-scoring air
cleaners, the Friedrich electrostatic precipitator and the Whirlpool HEPA filter.
We gauged how well each air cleaner could handle the periodic introduction of small amounts of pollutant into a sealed test
chamber over a 6-hour period. One set of tests used smoke, another fine dust. A second set of tests gauged how well each cleaner
worked for the next 17 hours, after the last injection of pollutant. For both sets of tests, we ran the Ionic Breeze and the Environizer
on high to maximize performance; the others were on low, their quietest setting.
The better an air cleaner does in lab tests like these, the better it will perform in a household setting. But as Prof. Lippmann
explained, if there is ?very little dust removal over 100 minutes,? then running an air cleaner for 24 hours ?is not going to make it an
effective air cleaner when infiltration of air containing particles into a room continues.?
The results. The Ionic Breeze and the Environizer didn?t come close to the performance of the others. As the graph below shows,
the Friedrich and Whirlpool have very high rates of air-cleaning. The Ionic Breeze and Environizer had very slow rates of cleaning,
which did not improve over time; those two products never achieved the same low pollutant level that the Friedrich and Whirlpool
attained.

 

[Kelemvor]

That's because the Ionic Breeze is a PASSIVE air cleaner. It doesn't force air through filters and such like other filters do. That's not the point of it. If you have dumbass expectatiosn of something, obviously you're going to be disappointed.

Like others have said.. If you don't own one and have never used one, then shut up about it as you obviously are just slaves to the press and can't think on your own. If you do own one and have used one, then by all means, post your thoughts...

 

[erikiksaz]

Here's an idea:

Use an ionic breeze if you have a small room. Since it's passive, you could kind of get around it by using a small, quiet fan to blow air into it?

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: erikiksaz
Here's an idea:

Use an ionic breeze if you have a small room. Since it's passive, you could kind of get around it by using a small, quiet fan to blow air into it?

It circulates air by itself, that isn't the problem. It uses electrostatically charged plates to move air though, albeit at a much slower speed than units with fans, but this makes it absolutely silent.

 

[TranceNation]

I just bought one off ebay for $170 (the quadra 4.0 version), so an informercial for it last night wanting about $370 for it. Heard this one really works well which is good because my computer kicks up a lot of dust and this one doesn't use that much energy

 

[Tom]

i was wondering if I have a vacuum cleaner with a hepa filter, could I just leave it running all the time and accomplish the same thing as these air cleaners ?

 

[Slap]

I have two Oreck air purifiers. They seem to work really well. They do have a fan, but on low it is barley noticeable. It uses a prefilter, then electrostatic.

 

[yukichigai]

Ionic Breezes are the choice air purifier amongst pot growers. If there's one group that knows what gets rid of smells and gets rid of them well it's pot growers.

If there's another it's hog farmers. No word from them yet.

 

[Atomicus]

I breathe fine any time, anywhere with anything in the air that is normal (burning rubber isn't normal). I breathe even better after a thunderstorm with the ozone in the air.
I suggest any ATOTer to reproduce with someone that doesn't have allergies to pollen or dust. Clean the gene pool please.
I see the IB as a marketing for a placebo, nothing more.

i'm outta my mind, don't bash me! I haven't peed in 17 hrs :frown:

 

[Cerb]

It shouldn't smell much of ozone if there is decent ventilation. If not good ventilation, the itty bitty one should do OK. Also, Windex is the key to cleaning the filters. Spray all over the plates, and rinse.

It doesn't do as well as the jet engines with filters, but I can sleep, read, and listen to music with it on. Had good HEPA filters with massive fans.

Have central or window AC also have a nice filter, and maybe have a real HEPA filter on for when gone during the day, if you want super-clean air.
It's no scam...but like anything else, it's not as good at its work as the infomercial says--which you should expect. <15w just can't move enough air and grab enough crap.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Tom
i was wondering if I have a vacuum cleaner with a hepa filter, could I just leave it running all the time and accomplish the same thing as these air cleaners ?

Yes. The thing is, even the quiet ones have enough machine noise that you don't get any other benefit than surface area over a vacuum cleaner.

 

[OulOat]

I thought you are not supposed to have it in the same room as electronic equipment, since the dust that escapes will be electrostatically charged.

 

[Rudee]

the speling in this thred is atroshus.

 

[TranceNation]

Originally posted by: OulOat
I thought you are not supposed to have it in the same room as electronic equipment, since the dust that escapes will be electrostatically charged.

i heard that the US prison system bought mass of these to electrocute some of the bad apples

 

[TechBoyJK]

a local tavern has one in their bar. You can't see any smoke whatsoever, and the air seems cleaner than in my church. My friend has one, and it was obvious which room it was in. I think they work. Maybe not as fast as the others, but if its constently running, it will do alot over time, especially after the first round of collection, it will keep it clean.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: OulOat
I thought you are not supposed to have it in the same room as electronic equipment, since the dust that escapes will be electrostatically charged.

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