Device uses movement of ions to generate airflow without any moving parts like in iPads and MacBook Air.
Speaking from experience here, and limited information from the company, this looks like a polished version of a high-voltage grid accelerator.
https://ventiva.com/how-it-works/
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.
They do have a solution for the ozone and dust problems. See this video at about the 9 minute mark:
https://youtu.be/fyai_kUYhLs?t=539
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.
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.
They use a grounded faraday cage around it. Video on it where he touched on that https://youtu.be/fyai_kUYhLs
Can’t watch the video rn, anything about the dust problem?
Not a fan
It Fannot. Or it Fan’t.
Defanned
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
The “fan” sits inside a faraday cage.
I think Dave2D made a video about those. He was cautiously optimistic.
Yes.
I want to put one in a Valve Steamdeck.
Nintendo Switch would be more compelling.
It would be a good use case; however, you can only do so much with a cut down version of a SOC that was originally made in 2015. It may be work for very little gains.
Is this the same way those bladeless Dyson fans work?
I have a house filter that functions on the same principal… Lol!
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