Cheap Air Purifiers

Best Item packed in a smaller size
I purchased this product last month and it sure lived up to its hype. I use to see alot of dust flying around in my house. I'm glad to say now its disappeared. My house is more fresher and more alive now more than ever Thanks to the Ionic Pro Therapure 100 now i just keep it near my computer.

Don't Be Fooled! It is NOT an Ionizer, NO filters. Only UV.
First and foremost, don't be deceived! The simple fact that this was listed in the ionizers category is just plain WRONG! Look carefully and the only place you'll notice the word "ION" is in the company name. What a scam!

Long story short: For ten bucks less, grab this even-smaller unit (about 1/3rd the size of this unit) which does the same UV-only purification: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000G2BESO?tag=a52-20&ie=UTF8

With that in mind, does this unit work? Yes and no.
We use it in the cat-duty room... you know, the room where cats do their duty! The room is very dusty and its smell tends to permeate into the surrounding rooms, one of which is the home office. Not good!

So we got this unit and set it up. It did indeed clear up the odor, for the most part, within 24 hours. Odors still lingered in the small room itself, but they no longer traveled into the other rooms nearby.

However, 3 days later, I started hearing a strange noise coming from the room where the purifier was installed. (I was on the other side of the house when I heard it, and the TV was on.) Upon investigating, I discovered that it was the purifier! The fan/motor (on the low speed, mind you) was vibrating so wildly you would have mistaken it for a Deisel Semi-Truck engine!!!

Figuring it just needed to be cleaned, I researched on how to do so. That's when I discovered that the thing wasn't even a real air purifier, moreso jist a glorified disinfectant! What an outrage!!

We decided to keep the unit anyway, since it does work, and have now had it a couple months. I constantly have to clean the fan with canned air, which re-disburses the dust all over the place. How annoying (and I'm a germaphobe...can't standing breathing when I do this, nor in the surrounding rooms afterwards, until the dust settles).

Despite constantly cleaning this thing, it still raves like a mad lunatic even right after being "cleaned". My wife even made a diaper for it: a home-made filter that she wrapped around the intake vents. We also put a custom-cut circular carbon+hepa filter on the inside to catch any more dust that might have escaped the "diaper" filter. Even so, it still gets dust in the fans and still sounds like a Mac Truck or like a noisy weedwacker on good days, and it goes in and out of its quiet mode. So it's noisy for a good 25-50% of the day, at least.

Lately we've been smacking the unit which seems to be a temporary fix, but the unit really does seem to be just junk. Hope you find one that works better!

Less efficiency
The product is too small to purify air for a small size room. So we had to buy a HEPA air purifier.

Fresh Air At Last!
This is a great air purifier! The uvc light bulb is huge compared to the one in the Germ Guardian GG1000 I have in my bedroom. Both work well. I got the ionic pro because I wanted an air purifier for the dining room and had no wall space for another GG1000. This is a student house and we have our windows closed and sealed for the winter meaning cooking and other smells linger and the air tends to get fusty. Not anymore! I have the fan set on medium with the unit on 24/7 and that is enough to keep the air clean and fresh. Another plus is that the light bulb is replaceable.

Only works one way
I ordered this on the basis of these other reviews thinking this would work for my allergies but after it came I realized that this is just a sanitizer utilizing a UV light. I should have read the product description more closely. To help with allergies, one needs a dust and pollen attractor. This little thing seems to run well otherwise, I suppose, although I have only the manufacturer's claims and no way of knowing if it is killing any germs! It's only about 14 in. high so is very nicely styled and compact.