Ionic Pro® Air Purifier

Comments about Ionic Pro® Air Purifier:

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Comments about Ionic Pro® Air Purifier:

I have ionic pros in almost every room of my home. They are silent and do a great job. One went on the fritz after a little over a year and I was disappointed at that but the others are all still going strong. these are the best in my opinion.

Comments about Ionic Pro® Air Purifier:

We have 2 cats and normally you know we have animals when you walk into our apartment. We bought 2 of these with a nice buy one get one 50% off deal and have loved them since! You can't smell the cats and we notice less dust as well! We have 2 litter boxes in our living room with one of the Ionics and you can't tell that they are there. It works wonders!

Comments about Ionic Pro® Air Purifier:

This is a generic version of the Ionic Breeze, which is the original. I had one of those before, but eventually the electronics on that one stopped working. It collected some dust from the air with hollow fins in the collector grid.

The Ionic PRO uses solid fins which attract very little dust (probably something to do with surface charge). The exterior is larger than the Ionic Breeze, but inside, it is the same size. Being a knock off, it is cheaper, but seeing as it hardly works, it isn't much of a bargain.

They try to protect the contacts at the bottom of the grid by forcing you to lie the whole unit on its side whenever you insert the grid, which is quite annoying (the Ionic Breeze does not require this). It's not as if I would just drop it in anyway.

The main allure of the ionic type air cleaners is that they are supposed to be totally silent. This was true of the Ionic Breeze I had, until enough dust collected in it, then it would occasionally tic or hiss (but I almost always cleaned it out every couple of weeks, before it got that dirty). The Ionic PRO is LOUD! It starts silent, but will begin sizzling and buzzing with almost no dirt in it! Sometimes it's even louder after you clean it. I've gone through and painstakingly wiped the grid down to a chrome shine, the vertical wires are clean, and I wiped the dust off each of the exterior plastic fins in its grill. The sizzling is obnoxious and it goes off and on about once a minute. I have followed the directions to a tee and still it sizzles. In fact, in the two years I've owned it, the sizzling has only gotten worse. A loud industrial HEPA filter with fan is less obnoxious (at least it doesn't cycle on and off).

Save yourself some money and avoid this cheap knock off. Go with a HEPA filter or an Ionic Breeze with the built in fans so it can actually move some air (these things take forever to circulate the air in a room).