Hunter 30756 PermaLife Tower Air Purifier with 3-Speed Fan

Product Description

Hunter's Permalife air purifier is 99.97% effective to 0.5 microns. Main filter never needs replacing. Just use vacuum to clean main filter. CADR rating: Smoke 127, dust 123, pollen 127. changes air up to 6 times per hour in 13 x 15 room. 30% better odor reduction. Separate ionizer enhances air cleaning and freshens air

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #162563 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Hunter
• Model: 30756
• Dimensions: 31.50" h x 10.50" w x 10.50" l, 18.00 pounds

Features

• Tower air purifier designed for rooms up to 14 by 14 feet
• CADR of 127 for smoke, 123 for dust, and 127 for pollen
• 3-speed whisper-quiet fan; digital controls and LCD display
• Permanent filter; ionizer; remote control and replacement prefilter included
• Measures approximately 10 by 10 by 31 inches; 5-year limited warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
Designed for rooms up to 14 by 14 feet, this air purifier changes the air up to six times per hour and provides a CADR of 127 for smoke, 123 for dust, and 127 for pollen. Its effective three-speed whisper-quiet fan draws air into the unit without excessive noise, and exhausts clean, purified air back into the room. The sleep setting offers quiet night-time operation, the active setting works best for daily use, and the turbo-clean timer can be used for short periods of maximum air cleaning. The purifier also comes equipped with a PermaLife permanent cleanable filter that effectively captures 99.5-percent of all airborne particles as small as 0.5 microns in size that pass through the filter (such as dust, smoke, pollen, pet dander, and other irritating allergens). Even more, a separately controlled ionizer distributes negative ions throughout the room to speed up the cleaning process.

For 30-percent better odor reduction, the unit's separate replaceable carbon prefilter reduces cooking, tobacco, and pet odors, while also capturing larger dust particles, lint, and pet hair from dirty air. Other highlights include digital controls and an LCD display; a NiteGlo light that illuminates the screen with a soft amber glow; filter clean/change indicators (PermaLife filter can be vacuumed clean every four to six months); automatic safety shut-off; and a snap-on front grill for simple prefilter replacement. A convenient remote control and a replacement 30901 prefilter come included. With its space-saving tower design that takes up less floor space than other models, the air purifier measures approximately 10 by 10 by 31 inches and carries a five-year limited warranty.

Customer Reviews

Works Well!
This purifier has all but kept my pet allergy at bay and has collected a large amount of dust/debris/animal hair that's been flying around in my air system. I leave it on all day and night.

The prior review stated that a ring at the base destroyed their carpet. This product is designed to gather in dirty air and spit out fresh air - not all of the dust is going to get pulled in and some WILL collect at the base - but unless you vacuum once per year, this is no problem at all. Just vacuum your carpet regularly.

I have light carpet (Mohawk I think) and it's fine. There is a ring where the unit was sitting, but this is from the base sitting in one spot for a while - much like a table leaves an indent in the carpet that comes up after a time.

This product does NOT get 5 starts because the filters are hard to come by. I have to order mine online since Home Depot / Lowes / Target / WalMart / PriceClub (and derivatives) do not carry it.

I've also seen other sites that say the controls are difficult. It's like a cheap car with automatic transmission from the 80's - 3 speeds and an overdrive (psuedo 4th speed).

Oh - and it comes with a remote - how can you go wrong?

Finally - the price. Amazon's price is ridiculous - Home Depot and Lowes regularly sell these things for $180. Occasionally they have 50% off sales. So, get the filters online, but definitely buy the thing in a store.

This air purifier damaged my new carpet!
The Hunter PermaLife 30756 is a poorly designed product and I absolutely do NOT recommend it. We have had Holmes purifiers in our house for over 12 years to help keep my husband's cat allergy at bay. I decided to upgrade the one in our lviing room to a newer tower model for space and asthetic reasons and purchased the Hunter PermaLife Tower Air Purifier 30756 this past May. I thought the roughly 5 yr life of the filter would offset the cost of the unit and all was well and fine... we were very happy with the performance of the unit. It's a tad noisy on the medium fan speed level and for optimum function you have to vacuum the filter about every 10-14 days (we leave our windows open most of the year so other climates and with or without our 2 cats may differ.)

Last week, we cleared the living room of furniture to have our not quite one-year-old light grey carpeting cleaned and I was shocked to see a brownish ring where the air purifier had been. I do not move all the furniture each time, but vacuum my carpet at least twice a week and had only moved the air purifier less than 6 times since May. I vacuum very late at night, and due to the lack of lighting, I hadn't notice the build-up of damage to the carpet.

I read the entire manual and no where does it mention the vent near the bottom of the unit that I found after discovering the discoloration. My new carpeting looks awful in a very obvious area of the living room. Spot treating and machine cleaning did lighten the stain by about half but you can still see an approx. 8 inch ring. Hunter Company covers itself in the warranty; "they are not responsible for damages caused directly or indirectly" by their product for more than the actual product price. So much for $6000 of special order extra wide carpeting that isn't even paid off yet.

Next time, I'll be sure to inspect near the base for hidden small vents before purchasing a tower air purifier.

Hunter 30756 PermaLife Tower Air Purifier with 3-Speed Fan
1) Tower air purifier is somewhat noisy on its fast setting and a distraction on the "Turbo" setting.
2) Would like to be able to purchase an extra cleanable hepa filter but Hunter makes it difficult to buy. Their website and the product
manual which comes with the unit doesn't even mention the possiblity of buying an extra in case the supplied "lifetime" one is accidently damaged during cleaning or handling.
3) The automatic guage which tells you when to replace the prefilter and the when to clean the main hepa filter works on the accumulated time the unit has been running since the last replacement or cleaning. This may cause you to be late in doing maintaince on the filters if the unit is filtering air that has more particulates per unit/volume than what the air quality engineers designed the unit to treat.