Specification
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #319848 in Home
- Color: Black
- Brand: Oreck
- Model: AIR12GU
- Dimensions: 3.00 pounds
Features
- Great for Asthma and Allergy Sufferers
- The easy, portable, proactive way to help clean the air
- Cleans and re-circulates the air in a 12' x 18' room twice every hour
- The Truman CellTM permanent filter never needs to be replaced
- Remote control lets you regulate the unit from across the room
Product Description
It's time to clear the air. And now there's an easy, portable, proactive way to do it.The EPA says indoor air may be 5 times more polluted than the air outside, and most of us spend approximately 90% of our time indoors. If you have weather-tight doors and windows, pets, or smoke, you could be adding to the problem. That's why you need the new, whisper-quiet ProShield Plus Air Purifier - the easy, portable, proactive way to help clean the air in your home. It circulates the air, filters out allergens, dirt, and other airborne irritants, captures and kills viruses and germs, and breaks down odors and volatile organic compounds such as chemical fumes and aerosol vapors - with the new Helios ShieldTM permanent odor absorber.
Great for Asthma and Allergy Sufferers.Every time you close your front door, you're sealing yourself in with airborne bacteria, dust, germs, and allergens. Some you can smell. Most you can't. The new Oreck ProShieldTM Plus helps reduce those nasty particulates in homes, and actually improves air quality. At the same time, it also helps eliminate odors. That's becuase the Oreck ProShield Plus constantly moves the air, drawing in and trapping those particulates. Its unique new Helios ShieldTM UV odor control technology and exclusive Truman CellTM captures pet dander, dust, and other harmful allergens that can drive asthma and allergy sufferers crazy.
Whisper-quiet, easy to use, and environmentally friendly.The ProShield Plus features easy-to-use controls and offers three different speed settings - high for maximum cleaning, medium for normal use, and silence for quietest operation. A handy remote control allows you to turn the power on or off, and adjust the odor control feature, motor speed, and night light - all from across the room. The Truman CellTM permanent filter never needs to be replaced - which saves you money and reduces waste.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
60 of 64 people found the following review helpful.
excellent results - highly recommend
By P. Mueller
I recently purchased one of these for our house. Our family suffers from allergies which result many times in sinus infections, as well as colds. I was tired of our two young kids constantly being medicated for their runny noses and I thought this would help. My wife was a bit skeptical, but within the first 2 days of installing this air purifier in the family room the stuffy noses went away and we have not had a sinus infection (or really even a runny nose) since. I have purchased 3 more - one for each bedroom - and am very pleased with the performance. The unit is barely noticeable on the "silent" mode (I have to put my hand over it to know it is on). The kids like the "medium" setting for bedtime because it provides some "white" noise. I typically leave them on medium when we are not home. I have cleaned all of the units and it was very easy. All you do is use the brush attachment on the vacuum and clean up the front, top and inside of it. I did use the Assail a Cell cleaner on the Truman Cell - simply spray it on, wash it off and let it dry overnight. Some people have complained of the snapping or popping noise that the Oreck's occasionally make but I have only heard it a couple times and it let me know it is doing it's job. I have had overall excellent results with this air purifier and highly recommend it. The remote control is very handy. The air in our home feels and smells clean and fresh.UPDATE: Two years later and I still love our air purifiers. They work great, I clean the filters about every two months, and it continues to help with allergies. Defintely feel like I got my money's worth out of these. I just use dish detergent now to clean the filters, letting the filters soak in the sink for a few minutes, rinse and dry. I occasionally use a hair dryer to dry the filters instead of leaving them to dry overnight.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
No Regrets
By J. West
I bought my unit two years ago directly from Oreck and I've never had any problems with it. I live in a city that has smog problems in the winter. And some days the air is so bad I couldn't even find relief at home. This product solved the problem. I stopped coughing at night. I stopped sneezing. I stopped waking up with a sore throat.I don't know that the unit removes 99.9% of dust particles from the air as claimed. But if it removes even 75% then that's a major improvement in air quality. I definitely notice the difference.My only problem is that the old man in the commercial said that it would cut down on dust and that I would see less dust in the room. I think the reality is that the unit emits an electrostatic charge to dust particles throughout the room. Some of that dust is captured by the unit and the rest of it sticks to surfaces around the room. The electrostatic charge causes the dust to stick to surfaces rather than float in the air; which means that those particles are no longer in the air--and that's what matters. My observation is that I still see the same amount of dust on surfaces; but the air is cleaner, my breathing is easier.In this case it should be understood that the electrostatic charge is the alternative to buying expensive filters. With this product you don't have to buy filters, you just have to wash the Truman Cell once a month. The trade-off is that you will see dust on your furniture. But again, in my observation it is no worse than before I bought the unit. I save money on filters.To conclude, I have no regrets about my purchase. It does the basic job that it is supposed to do. And when this unit finally does break I plan to buy another one--unless something better comes along.
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Oreck ProShield Plus Air Purifier
By Greg
I've had one of these newer Oreck ProShield air "purifiers" for almost two years now. It's Okay as an "air cleaner", but was an expensive disappointment for it's intended use.First, these units are not air "purifiers". The "Truman Cell" is just a fancy electronic grid of wires and flat metal panels that ionise particulates as they pass through, causing them to adhere to the metal plates by a static charge. Particulates large enough to be affected by the change in ionic charge are trapped, while smaller ones may still travel through the unit and remain suspended in the air. It is very effective at removing particulates from the air. But, this is far from "purification".This is also nothing new, and Oreck have actually been making this exact same air "purifier" in the same essential design for at least 30 years. The only differences are that the units have gotten larger, and they now have pretty blue LEDs--they are also almost 5 times the price.Back in the 1980's I had purchased one of Oreck's Truman Cell air cleaner units and I was rather amazed as how floating dust went in and became stuck to the metal plates. It was certainly convenient enough to wash clean without having to buy new filters every month or two.After all the hype over the Sharper Image Ionic Breeze I decided I wanted a unit that had an added carbon filter to help remove perfumes and other chemicals from the air (as I happen to be allergic to them) and since the Oreck units are essentially an Ionic Breeze with extra fittings, I figured it would be a good choice. What I got was an oversized version of the air cleaner I had in the 80's.Oreck claim the unit is "Whisper-quiet" which is nonsense, unless your are hearing impaired. Even on the lowest setting the centrifugal fan in the back of the unit buffets the air in an annoyingly noticeable manner. It's unavoidable as this type of fan is inherently noisy. At the higher speeds, the unit grows more and more intolerably loud.There are two different units: one with an activated carbon filter, and another with what Oreck call the "UV-A Helios Shield".The carbon filter model has contains a removable/replaceable flimsy honeycomb insert of activated carbon that is designed more for high air flow than for absorbing anything. As well, due to the limited surface area of the carbon filter, these would need frequent replacement, and at $50 per carbon filter, Oreck has positioned themselves for a fair profit.Not only is there insufficient carbon surface in the carbon filter to remove odours for any length of time, it also fails to absorb airborne chemicals in any useful manner. If someone walks into the room dowsed in perfume or body spray, I'm better off leaving the building than relying on this thing to clean the air.The "Helios Shield" is a UV light device that is intended to kill airborne micro-organisms that "cause odours" and are intolerant of UV radiation. Unfortunately, on the scale permitted by the unit's size and power consumption, this does more for one's emotional ease than it does to sanitise the air. This is not even close to a hospital grade UV bacterial shield. Save your money. You don't need UV light in shelf-top air cleaner.I have read complaints in other reviews about the direction of air returned to the room and static "snapping" coming from the "Truman Cell".The air return is directed over the front of the unit to help increase circulation in the room so that static pockets of air don't form at the far side. It is also meant for shelf use, as well as a free standing unit, and should the unit be placed under another shelf the air needs to be directed so that it can escape from the shelf space.I would certainly prefer moving vent louvres so that the owner can adjust the air flow--especially with the option to rotate the vent to the opposite side of the unit when in a standing position. This is not at all possible. The louvres don't move at all.The snapping sound from the metal plates is common on these units, and with all cleaners that use this type of ionising grid. When particulates become trapped between two electrified surfaces they arc, creating the snapping sound. This can be increased by soap residues (use a grease-cutting dish soap, and rinse very well), as well as by moisture/humidity in the metal grid.Keep in mind, this is essentially the same technology used in backyard bug zappers, except that the grids are designed to trap dust, not bugs.If all you want/need is to remove dust and allergen particulates from the air, this is definitely a capable unit to do it. It will work a bit more efficiently than the Ionic Breeze, but with that efficiency comes the sacrifice of added noise due to the squirrel-cage type fan.It will certainly not suck in dust that has settled on furniture, and if the quantity of airborne allergens is too dense, this unit may not be able to compete. (I.e., if allergens are flowing in through an open window, this is not a solution unless you close the window.)
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