Hi Folks, I have come across this air cleaner. Looked up their web page, and it looks like something I may buy. Does anyone out there have one or been exposed to one in another shop? If so tell me what you think.
Air cleaners are great for cleaning the air as long as you can hold your breath for ~10 minutes. Put your money into capturing the dust at the source with a dust collection system and you don't need this.
I try to capture the dust at the source as Tarhead suggests, but that is a never-ending challenge, especially on the lathe when doing long spindle work., or if sanding on a big build. There are many more examples where this becomes a challenge. They say no matter how hard you try, when you fry fish you will always get the smell.
If the OP were me, I would just buy a big blower, possibly used on ebay or auction, build a wooden box around it and put a good Hepa filter in front. It would be a fraction of the price and probably multiple more air changes per hour. To insulate that for noise is also pretty easy and inexpensive.
This is what I do:
I had AC installed in my shop (heating/cooling) and I put a number of the biggest (30 x 20 x 1) filters in for the air handling unit. I use the finest particle filters available and make sure I run the AC fan when I am making dust. If I am cleaning shop I blow the dust out the doors with a blower and in addition to the AC would run my dust collector with all the collection points fully open. Cleaning the AC filters with a shop-vac takes a few minutes.