✔ Resets countless units back to new
✔ Reverses clogging/restriction
Reasons for clogging are either moisture or resin. If your habit produces resin, soak prefilter in alcohol as needed. If prefilter is clean and dry but restriction is still noticed, it's time to fully dry the HEPA filter. A Docking Station is strongly recommended. A hair dryer could potentially work too (just avoid using heat or blowing open the pleats).
Using the Dock: Remove lid & prefilter, flip Smoke Eraser over, park onto Dock and forget it. Unit should be dried back open by morning.
*If a computer fan is too loud for your situation, maybe try using it in a closet via extension cord?
But nothing fancy here; just a tool for when you need it to gently dry delicate HEPA filter pleats back open without damage or having to babysit the process (hair dryer). Great to keep on deck to eliminate moisture clogs and extend unit life. One Dock should last for quite a # of units (I'd assume about as long as the fan in your computer lasts).
Click "Add to Cart" to buy the Docking Station for $20, or acquire it more affordably via one of the combos:
SE/Dock - $30Similar to an SE Pair, but as adding a 2nd unit increases life to 2, a Dock increases life to many. A single Dock can repeatedly dry countless units back to like new.
2SE/Dock - $45Popular with Smoke Eraser vets, this is typically bought once for the discounted Dock. The ultimate in convenience, value, and longevity. Combo yields most exhales per unit.
WHAT MAKES IT SO SPECIAL?
It's just the application of common sense. I let the users keep units clean and dry, something no other brand seems to allow. So you get about 1000 uses with a single Smoke Eraser, about 3x the average. And if 1000 exhales isn't enough, you can even add a Docking Station for another 500+. And that single Dock, by the way, increases countless lifespans.
FAQs for the Smoke Eraser:
1a. What is the purpose of the Smoke Eraser? Also known as a personal air filter or sploof, the Smoke Eraser effectively removes all secondhand smoke and smell from exhaled breath. User simply holds the unit to the mouth and blows forcefully to expel the lungs of any kind of smoke or vapor to keep from spewing it carelessly about, polluting air spaces that must oftentimes be shared. It's a way to more respectfully share an airspace or to simply conceal a habit, keeping one's personal business to oneself. Smoke or vapor is blown into the unit, whereby only clean odorless air exits.
2a. Why does it work? First thing to understand is breath moisture is the reason for the premature failure of every Smoke Eraser competitor. Without any ability to block, collect, and remove the accumulating water that accompanies each exhale, HEPA filters become soaked, clog, and ultimately fail prematurely, oftentimes before reaching even 300 uses. With the Smoke Eraser, between the Docking Station and the ability to remove lid and prefilter, we give customers multiple ways to increase unit life.
3a. So why 2? A pair of Smoke Erasers rotated daily will typically result in noticeably longer lifespans for each unit. When you give each an extra 24 hours to dry out (lid off) between regular usage, you simply allow HEPA filters to dry more fully and do so regularly. This is often enough for most users to significantly increase the life of the units, but for heavier use, it's often more advantageous to increase lifespans via Dock.
4a. What is this statement of being "remarkably satisfying"? The enjoyable finish experienced with a Smoke Eraser is produced by intentionally adding a bit of back pressure to airflow. It's for the same reason a person puckers the lips in order to whistle. Without controlling flow and pressure, it's like trying to blow forcefully with your mouth wide open. Try blowing out a candle like that. See what I mean? Well we're basically the opposite. Highly effective, thoroughly satisfying. It's just attention to detail.
5a. What is the difference between Smoke Eraser and Smoke Eraser Pro? There is no difference. With regular slight improvements implemented through the years, if they were ever significant enough, I changed the name. V2 up through V5, and then finally the Pro. But at no time are there multiple versions. There's just Smoke Eraser. But yes, if you want to get technical, it happens to be the Pro right now.
Pro Tip - Regarding elimination of resin from prefilter. Not only does the prefilter protect the HEPA filter from moisture, it limits restriction from resin too. When necessary, remove the mesh and cotton and soak them in rubbing alcohol to eliminate all collected resin. Can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes.
FAQs for the Docking Station:
(Please note: The Dock is simply a fan designed to assist in drying out your HEPA filter. The key to longevity is to begin each day with a dry unit, otherwise moisture compounds leading to premature failure. As such, just use some common sense for how best to use of the Dock. But if you want to get technical, or use the tool to really maximize lifespan, read on.)
1b. Why a Docking Station? One alone improves the experience for and increases the value of every unit you buy, essentially adding life like a charger to a cell phone. They allow user to dry the breath moisture on demand. Very handy for those forgetting lid removal or finding that downtime alone just isn't enough to fully dry the HEPA filter. Keep a Dock on deck and you should increase countless lifespans going forward.
2b. But do I really need one? Put it this way. The moisture naturally expelled from breath is already enough to fill about a 16oz soda can in less than about 24 hours. Now just imagine forcefully pushing this amount of water vapor repeatedly through a highly absorbent HEPA filter. Well this is why effective moisture management is critical to maximizing lifespan. Even with a prefilter keeping (liquid) water from the HEPA filter and a removable lid to help ventilate the unit, it's the gaseous portion (water vapor) of breath, able to pass the prefilter, that is why further measures are often needed to fully dry HEPA filters. This is what the Dock does well and not only for a single unit, but for countless Smoke Erasers going forward.
3b. When do you use it? Recommended use is overnight when needed. If restriction (clogging) is starting to occur, it’s Dock time.
4b. Which side goes onto the Dock? Just remove lid and prefilter pieces, flip the unit over, and park it on the Dock.
5b. Why does it work? All other brands suffer from the same huge oversight. Unchecked breath moisture. Moisture, the main enemy to the HEPA filter, quickly saturates the highly absorbent filter material causing restriction to occur in what would eventually become the unit's premature failure. The Docking Station counters this via fan generated forced ventilation to stop or reverse restriction.
6b. How long will it last? It's basically the fan in the back of your desktop computer tower. For most, they run 24/7. And how often do you replace these? So just say 8 hours a day. This is if you wanted to run the Dock every night. Even then, I'd think one would last you through plenty of units. Don't you think?
7b. Is it expensive to run all night? A couple dollars a month running the Dock 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. I don't think so.
