Sharper Image Ionic Breeze 3.0 Compact Silent Air Purifier (SI397)
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Sharper Image Ionic Breeze 3.0 Compact Silent Air Purifier (SI397)
Customer Review: MUST use with ozone guard
Summary: 4 Stars
Mine picks up a lot of dust. I have to clean it every few days. The blades turns completely black. You must buy it with the ozone guard, otherwise it will be unhealthy. One great thing the unit does is get rid of bad smell. Once I forgot to open the fireplace vent when i lit the fire and smoke filled the house. I used it suck up all the dust and the smell. I was able to get back in my place to sleep that night without breathing problem. Of course i also needed to vacuum and clean all the surfaces. I think this unit is only helpful. The most important thing is to vacuum your carpet and to clean your house often.Customer Review: I am very satisfied so far
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had my unit for a year now. Yes, it does work. All you need to do is look at the blades and see that it collects alot of dark black particles out of the air that you would be breathing into your body. I also have a Bionaire filter cleaner that does not work nearly as well and is alot noisier. The only negative to the Ionic Breeze is the ESD it gives off that affects any electronic products nearby. Keep it away from stereos, tv's, computers etc. I think I damaged by DSL modem by placing the IB next to it.Customer Review: Good Find
Summary: 4 Stars
I live in the dorms.... this thing keeps my room from smelling like I do, it has 3 speeds, none of them are very impressive, very minimal air flow, but for running completely silent what can you expect? cleaning is a breeze just run the slides under water.Customer Review: OK, but that's all.
Summary: 3 Stars
I have a problem with most air cleaners. As a light sleeper, the fan noise will wake me up in the middle of the night and I find it hard to get back to sleep. I went through a number of filters and ended up giving all of them away. The Ionic Breeze had the selling point of no fans so I tried one. I also live in a small apartment so the fan noise is much more noticable then in a house.
It's absolutely true, the unit makes almost no noise. That's until it gets clogged with dirt or lint and starts to hiss, pop and whistle. Then it's as noisy as the fan powered filters. And sometimes cleaning the unit makes no difference, you just have to live with the noise until it goes away on it's own. Also some very small moths seem to be attacted to the collection plates, get electrocuted and the bodies stick to the plates.
The dirt it captures is very fine not the fluffy clods of dust you get on ordinary filters so it's probably not capturing as much. It doesn't do much for cigarrette smoke but lighting candles will cause a film of wax to adhere to the collection plates. The wax can destroy the plates so it's recommended to not run the filter while burning candles.
I have three units and am just barely satisfied with them but since a regular air filter will cause me sleep problems I guess they are better then nothing. Until someone invents better silent air filter, I'm sticking with these.
Customer Review: 2 years and still running well
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had a unit running day and night for almost 2 years straight, it seems to work great and kills odors pretty well. Cleaning the fins is easy but notice that over time some parts are tougher to clean and keep clean over long period of use. The only thing wrong with my unit is that it runs great on the high setting but it shuts down by itself on the lowest setting. It doesn't matter to me since I just keep it on high all the time. I paid much less for mine after it had already became popular and went into its demise but mine's been well worth it.