Doesn't an ionic air moving system like this put out a big ass EM field?
Im a fabricator who don't fuck with the lecky, but maybe someone more educated than me can explain why this doesn't wipe your memory every time the cooling kicks on
Nah, it can use all the dust and bits of carpet fluff. It's magical stuff carpet fluff, it's always a different color to any color you actually have as a carpet.
Well there's no shortage of those, and they're unusually cheaper too (unless they're specced out). I prefer a thin silent one myself, so I welcome this innovation.
Passive cooling is generally better for reliability if you can make it work, since all active airflow systems will degrade as dust and hair works into the airflow paths.
Plus, the two can be used in combination. Improved passive cooling systems will make active cooling better by reducing the need to run the active system all the time, or at least run it at reduced rates, which will make the whole system last longer and reduce maintenance.
What can be an expected concern is that besides ionizing air and imparting motion to neutral air molecules as the ionized ones rush from one plate to the other, that same effect can and will charge dust particles. That "collector plate" will need to be easily accessible.
tl;dw: they're using a cataylist to convert the ozone. There's a lack of specifics on the dust issue, but they apparently have thought about it and have something there.
One other issue is that the static pressure is abysmal. You can work around that, but it's not a drop in thing.
Appreciate the link. I've got a hand-me-down Ionic in my house, and knowing that I can skip running it for basically the same effect means I can save a couple of cents on my electricity bill.
Gonna take another look at those IKEA tables with the HEPA filters built in. Those seem handy to avoid having to dust so often.
Ionic acceleration of air needs high voltages and the air gets ionized (the reason people recommend against vacuuming a PC). I'm surprised that it works at all in close proximity to sensible tech.
Edit: right, low static pressure, meaning: lower voltages. But still not low.
the reason people recommend against vacuuming a PC
A regular vacuum isn't doing anything with ions or high voltages. Moving air can generate potentially harmful static electricity, but usually the reason people recommend against vacuuming a PC is because if you spin the fans doing that, the motors inside turn into generators and drive current back into your PC parts that could damage them.
I have a house filter that functions on the same principal... Lol!
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Sadly, this won't go anywhere now for the same reason it didn't go anywhere for the 10 times it has been proposed before. It looks great on first look but longevity is amazingly low and likely will require purchasing of catalyst less than a year after first use. I'm sure investors loved that part of the pitch but compared to current fan tech, with good static pressure, there's no way someone with half a brain would chuck this in their laptop. And that's before considering the rest of the downsides.
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There's no rule against using active cooling for tablets and phones, only practicality. This technology seems like it might be practical enough to use in compact devices such as those, but we'll see if that's true.