Aprilaire 5000 Media and Electrostatic Whole-House Air Cleaner with Digital Control

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 31 x 12 x 19 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B004PDLFG6
• Item model number: Aprilaire 5000
  

By : Aprilaire
List Price : $729.00
Price : $459.00
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Product Description

Aprilaire 5000 Combination Electronic and Media Ducted Whole-House Air Cleaner has been rated 1 three years running by a leading products ratings magazine for some very good reasons: It electronically charges particles and traps them like a magnet better than any other air cleaner - using 72 square feet of Aprilaire-branded Model 501 filtering media. Aprilaire 5000 Air Cleaner is tried, true, and tested - delivering the highest efficiency possible. When installed by an HVAC professional as part of your central heating and cooling system, the Aprilaire 5000 Air Cleaner can help give you the cleanest, healthiest air in every room of your home. Through patented technology, particles entering the air cleaner pass through a control electrode, which focuses and intensifies an electrical field generated by ionizing wires. The particles are charged in the electrical field and then collected on grounded micro-fiber media. There is no monthly cleaning of collector plates like with other types of electronic air cleaners, in fact, in some homes the Aprilaire 5000 Air Cleaner's media needs to be changed only once a year. The Aprilaire 5000 Air Cleaner captures over 98% of airborne contaminants down to one micron in size. The Aprilaire 5000 Air Cleaner kills bacteria and spores and permanently traps particles, leaving absolutely no chance of them being released back into the air. The Aprilaire 5000 Combination Electronic and Media Whole-House Air Cleaner requires as little as once a year service that takes as little as 20 minutes and yet it will work silently and invisibly so you'll dust less often. The Aprilaire 5000 Air Cleaner works throughout your whole home cleaning every room. The Aprilaire 5000 Air Cleaner keeps dust and dirt from building up on your heating and cooling equipment which helps ensure the equipment runs at peak efficiency which will maximize the life of your valuable asset. This is a post recall unit with a current manufacturing date.

 

Aprilaire 5000 Media and Electrostatic Whole-House Air Cleaner with Digital Control

 

Technical Details

• The Aprilaire 5000 is a combination unit with electrostatic technology and 10 MERV media air filter
• Unique Combination Filtration eliminate the smallest particles with the least resistance to air flow
• Unit includes electronic LCD active controller which can be mounted anywhere in your home
• Also Includes: Aprilaire Model 501 media air filter, 6 dividing combs, filter housing, and case
• Rated 1, for the past 3 years, by the leading consumer product ratings magazine

Customer Reviews

In my case I needed to install the Aprilaire 5000 inside the house, just behind the primary air filter. I have one of those "package" A/C units with everything outside the house except for the filter for the return air. So I really needed to install the electronic air cleaner inside away from the elements.
The Aprilaire 5000 was install by removing the existing ducting behind the primary filter and fabricating a new duct to allow the air cleaner to be installed in the path of the air flow. I already had power in this location and the thermostat was just above the filter location. Hookup was simple and without incident. The only issue was that the power for the air cleaner needs to be switched depending on the A/C unit fan operation.
Instead of using the Aprilaire fan switch as recommended by Aprilaire, which assumes your electronic air filter will be installed near the A/C components, I decided that a "sail switch" would be preferred as it could turn on the electronic air cleaner when it sensed air movement in the return duct. In the end what I selected was pressure differential switch, White Rodgers 770-1 Differential Air Pressure Switch (I found one on EBay for $25). This switch is ideally suited to this type of application. It comes with a small 1/8" tube that you connect between the switch (low side) and a 1/8" brass barb (Home Depot for a couple of bucks) connected to the return air duct. If your not electrically handy you may want to get an electrician or HVAC guy to hook this up.
The unit has been working for a couple of weeks now. Allergy symptoms cleared up within an hour of powering it up. I'm currently running with the 30 min per hour cycle and all is well. I can breath and sleep once again.

ha... I suppose you can call it an air filter... but they say Air Cleaner...
I ordered this to add to my old furnace, but then decided to upgrade the furnace too. So I had the HVAC guy put it in when they installed the new furnace.
Then we had the ducts cleaned too.
All the HVAC guys and the duct cleaner guy made comments about this being a great air cleaner.
We've been using it for a few weeks now and it seems to work just fine. Our new furnace has the variable speed blower so we just leave the blower on 24-7 (it runs at very low speed till the furnace or AC kicks on)
Because of this, we aren't using the fancy air cleaner control right now... so I can't comment on that.
I also can't comment yet about filter life.
But one interesting thing... the filter comes in a little box... its not in a cardboard frame like you might be used to seeing with standard filters (when I first opened the air cleaner I thought they forgot to include the filter!)
The filter is all collapsed (like an accordion) and you have to install it into the plastic frame. This is pretty easy to do - you just snap on the top and bottom and then insert a bunch (6 maybe?) of plastic combs between the filter pleats to hold them in the proper position. The filter is about 4" or 5" thick... which creates a lot of surface area for collecting dust and whatnot. standard filters are only 1" thick)
Once you have it in place, you snap the ends of the plastic box shut... they have foam or something on them so they seal up tight against the ends of the filter medium to prevent any air from "bypassing" the filter.
I mainly mention this for those that might wonder why replacement filters are only like $25 (last I checked)... I think the low cost is because the filter isn't in a cardboard frame which would require more assembly and shipping costs.
Anyway, this is rather expensive - but it seems to be one of the more affordable options for a better air cleaner. Plus if these filters really do last a year then there is some savings on buying filters... I probably replaced my old style filter 3-4 times a year at 12-15 bucks per filter. If you want to upgrade your current filter then this seems to be a good way to go.