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Dyson Pure Cool Link Desk Fan Purifier $269.10 Pickup @ The Good Guys at eBay
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Buy one off ebay and return the ebay one to David Jones.
I'd be frowning too… no matter how cheap, it's dreadful product, over-rated, over-priced, under-performing and absolutely pitiful value for money.
Makes a mockery of their whole "Air Multiplier" technology too, since it only filters the air that it sucks up via the HEPA filters in the base. So, not only do you get class-losing fan blowing performance, but you also get lower than normal amounts of filtering too!
hit nail on head… the very reason they sell this fan is because of it's air multiplication system, and this means the filtration system is next to useless. AVOID AVOID AVOID
They reckon that the HEPA filtering removes something like 99.7% of impurities. What they don't tell you is that it's only cycling a poofteeth of the room air through the filter at any given time.
So much noise and energy used for so little action! There are far better ways of filtering air (if you must) and you'd be hard pressed to find ANY fan that performs as poorly as these Dysons.
However there's one big advantage of these compared to normal fans - the blowing performance is so pathetic that there is far less chance of the Dyson stirring up dust, etc from room surfaces.
BTW - if you think I am being unfairly negative, go compare the performance of these things in real life.
A poofteeth is a very commonly used engineering term that means "less than would normally be considered significant".
It's not an absolute number - sometimes a poofteenth is less than a hundredth, sometimes less than a thousandth. Irrespective, it's so small that it doesn't matter. In some countries using imperial measurements, they might call it "3/5 of FarCall".
Some Aussies might say "Bugger All", however that's usually considered a larger number than a Poofteeth or FarCall.
So putting that all together, we could say… The Dyson fan blows Bugger All air in the first place, and even less gets drawn through the HEPA filter. Therefore only a Poofteenth of the total room air volume ever gets filtered, and overall it has FarCall effect.
If the filter is removed, does it have better performance?
I don't know how much gets blocked by the filter, however it has big surface area so it probably doesn't make a huge difference.
The standard Dyson models (that don't have this HEPA filtering) deliver a disappointingly small amount of cooling air for a given size machine and the amount of noise that they generate. Generally I doubt this is a brand of cooling products that most people would choose if they were even the slightest bit interested in "performance".
Awesome vacuum cleaners.
Terrible fans…
How much better is this than a standard non purifying $20 desk fan? Seems very expensive.
Or is this only useful for people with breathing issues who need purified air?
How much better is this than a standard non purifying $20 desk fan?
It's worse. Performance is absolutely abysmal.
Or is this only useful for people with breathing issues who need purified air?
People who actually need "purified air" would already be using a proper air purifier, not this toy.
Does anyone know a good price on these with the heating/cooling, so can be used in Summer and Winter?
Ebay 20% off, $600.
So just grab it when you see 20% from any of the major retailers,theyre only a few months to a yr old as well.
This is only useful if you want to place fan around where your children could touch and play around with it.
Other than that, despite of their good looking design, the high pitch noise is quite disturb.
If you considering this due to air purification, just get the air purifier.
FYI: this model doesn't seem to be available on the dyson website anymore.
Interesting that the fine print on that page states that it uses "constructed borisilicate microfibers" as a filtering material.
Same fundamental stuff as used in fiberglass roof insulation batts. That sounds absolutely excellent, however I am sure that I read somewhere that asbestos fibres have an even better allergen filtering performance.
asbestos is perfectly safe and fine, providing no-one ever touches it.
asbestos is perfectly safe and fine, even IF somebody touches it. It's breathing the fibres in LARGE AMOUNTS which is the issue. I'd say that the air on earth contains a significant amount of asbestos fibres.
What's interesting on this Dyson thing is the use of glass fibres as an air-filtering medium. If they dislodge, they become an airborne irritant that the uber-powerful air multiplier will project forcibly towards the victim.
For example, what happens if I accidentally bump the HEPA filter as I am installing it? The only way to stop the broken glass escaping would be to use a covering on the filter that is finer than the glass strands. And if that was the case then the outer material is what would be filtering the air, not the glass (make sense?).
Got one from David Jones for $299 over the weekend…:(