Air purifier for my computer room
Nov 3, 2020 11:02:46 #
I have wood floors in my computer room and it amazes me how much dust accumulates in a day or two after cleaning. Does anyone have experience using air purifiers do they really help?
Nov 3, 2020 11:17:28 #
farwest wrote:
I have wood floors in my computer room and it amazes me how much dust accumulates in a day or two after cleaning. Does anyone have experience using air purifiers do they really help?
I have a hot air system and change my filter 2x a month. Not an issue with dust? Do you have carpet else wear in the house?
Nov 3, 2020 11:19:59 #
sandiegosteve
Loc: San Diego, CA
To protect your camera stuff or computers? I try to keep my camera stuff in a closed closet and with caps on. The computer has fans that like to pull all that dust in.
The few times I've used room air purifiers, I was too lazy to clean them and they got to the point of not helping.
The few times I've used room air purifiers, I was too lazy to clean them and they got to the point of not helping.
Nov 3, 2020 11:22:46 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
I have a hot air system and change my filter 2x a month. Not an issue with dust? Do you have carpet else wear in the house?
I have the pleated filters but we live out in the country and it has been very dry here for months which doesn't help. Yes we have carpet in most of the house.
Nov 3, 2020 11:23:18 #
Nov 3, 2020 13:09:29 #
Nov 3, 2020 19:40:58 #
Mr. SONY
Loc: LI, NY
Make your own air filter.
Box fan, some wood and filters.
Cheap very effective and quiet!
Well I did put in a ceiling fan controller to slow the fan down slower than it's normal low speed.
Box fan, some wood and filters.
Cheap very effective and quiet!
Well I did put in a ceiling fan controller to slow the fan down slower than it's normal low speed.
Nov 4, 2020 08:42:22 #
Woodworm65
Loc: Lombard, IL
I have wood floors through out my first floor and have very little dust my camera room/den is on the first floor, second floor has carpet and is a dust magnet long story short if you have carpet anywhere near your camera room it becomes a dust magnet.
Nov 4, 2020 11:32:42 #
Nov 4, 2020 11:58:16 #
farwest wrote:
I have wood floors in my computer room and it amazes me how much dust accumulates in a day or two after cleaning. Does anyone have experience using air purifiers do they really help?
Do you have a positive pressure in your house? Positive pressure will use filtered air to fill your house with clean air and the dust from the outside will stay outside, except for the dust brought in on shoes and clothes!
Nov 4, 2020 13:04:36 #
Nov 4, 2020 14:56:30 #
Don't know if this is useful but my computer cases (2) are on shelves,...one on desk itself behind keyboard,...I've custom designed the shelves high above my keyboard and desk top.
I've done this since the 1990's and it works,....do my fans ingest dust ???,..barely,....very, very little and with NO lint ever,...I just lightly vacuum out the case once a year or so with a brush vacuum attachment or use a paint brush gently brushing ,...amazingly better and works wonders IMHO than computer cases sucking in dust bunnies off rugs or hard wood at floor level.
Will post pics of my setup if any interest.
I've done this since the 1990's and it works,....do my fans ingest dust ???,..barely,....very, very little and with NO lint ever,...I just lightly vacuum out the case once a year or so with a brush vacuum attachment or use a paint brush gently brushing ,...amazingly better and works wonders IMHO than computer cases sucking in dust bunnies off rugs or hard wood at floor level.
Will post pics of my setup if any interest.
Nov 4, 2020 16:03:09 #
Nov 4, 2020 23:49:18 #
farwest wrote:
I have wood floors in my computer room and it amazes me how much dust accumulates in a day or two after cleaning. Does anyone have experience using air purifiers do they really help?
Just my two cents, but I worked for a Sheetrock manufacturing company as a computer technician. I sometimes laugh about how concerned people get about dust in their computers. If you are at all familiar with the gypsum dust from Sheetrock (wallboard) you will understand what I’m talking about. It’s like talcum powder. When I would work on the desktop computers and needed to remove the covers for access, the internals looked like someone spray painted them with white paint a quarter of an inch thick. Everything was completely covered. I would have to blow them out with compressed air, just to identify the components I needed to get to. For example: upgrading memory, installing higher capacity hard drives etc. There were at least 75 computers and it was impossible to keep them clean. if I would clean the dust out, in two days it was right back. Not once, in seven years did I ever have a computer fail due to the extreme accumulation of dust.
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