Ionic Pro Therapure 100 Compact Germicidal Air Sanitizer
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Ionic Pro Therapure 100 Compact Germicidal Air Sanitizer
Customer Review: Best Item packed in a smaller size
Summary: 4 Stars
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.Customer Review: Broke in 2 mos, Terrible Customer Service, Big Waste of Money
Summary: 1 Stars
I read a lot of the reviews before I bought this and another Therapure ionizer as a package deal. Let me begin by saying that it was useless so far as I can tell. I had it in my office, which at the time was no more than 50sqft and frankly couldn't tell the difference when it was on or off, no matter how long it ran. The one benefit it had was that it blew air like a quiet fan, which was enough to keep it around. That and the hope that maybe it was doing something good that I just could not perceive.
Then about two months after I bought it, it began to buzz... loudly, and the airflow seemed to stop altogether. I contacted customer service and was connected with a call center. I was disconnected twice, was once told the computers were down and each person I talked to was more useless than the next. Finally, I was told that I had to return the filter to the company and pay a $30 processing fee, so that the unit could be fixed and returned to me. When I asked what the fee was for, they said it was to pay for the call center and the warehouse.
Don't waste your money. If you need an air filter, spend a little bit more for one from a reputable company. Otherwise it is good money after bad and you don't even have an air filter to show for it.
Customer Review: Don't Be Fooled! It is NOT an Ionizer, NO filters. Only UV.
Summary: 1 Stars
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!
Customer Review: Don't Bother
Summary: 1 Stars
It is the end of July 2010 and we purchased this unit on February 3, 2010 -- LESS than 6 months ago. It is in a small bedroom and within a couple of weeks the fan made the horrific noise others have complained about in these reviews. I did the canned air thing and things seemed fine -- for a couple of months. Now the noise is back and the airflow is NON-EXISTENT -- no amount of canned air or tilting or speed changing is correcting these problems. The unit is now worthless and from I've read I won't even bother with trying to get the company to stand behind their product. I see Amazon has stopped carrying this model -- good for them.
Sue Ann
Customer Review: Fresh Air At Last!
Summary: 5 Stars
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 Therapure 100 because I wanted a cheap uvc 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.
Update: I have had this unit now for about a year. It is still going strong. Another benefit is that nobody has gotten sick all year. I like it enough that I think I will buy another one. Some people have complained about fan noise but I found if you take a vacuum cleaner hose and go over the outside vents with it and stick the hose inside where the light bulb goes (the light bulb module lifts out), you will suck out all the dust and the fan will get quiet again.
Also, for a while I was worried about finding a replacement bulb, because it looks like Therapure no longer makes this model of uvc air purifier and I could not find a replacement bulb for it on their website. However, the uvc light comes out of the module. It has two prongs on either end and unhooks from the module just like those fluorescent lights people use in their basements unhook. You can buy a replacement light bulb for about $15 in a pet supply store or online. You need to match the bulb in watts, prongs, and length, and make sure it is uvc. I would myself just put it in a little box and carry it with me to be sure I got the correct size.