If you’re looking to clean the air in a large room, the Dreo MC710S Air Purifying Tower Fan may be the solution with a powerful fan, a HEPA filter, and the ability to oscillate back and forth, sort of like a fan and an air purifier in one. , or a less expensive version of a Dyson TP07 air purifier.
However, the Dreo is huge, lacks carbon filtration to eliminate odors, and has a very low CADR rate, making it less effective at cleaning the air in your room than some of the best air purifiers we’ve tested. But this two-in-one device may be a good option for your home, so check out the rest of our Dreo Air Purifying Tower Fan review to see if it can make breathing a little easier.
Dreo MC710S Air Purifying Tower Fan Review: Price and Availability
The Dreo Air Purifying Tower Fan is available for $300 on Amazon or the Dreo website, though at the moment there’s a special price of $280. That’s about double the price of the Clorox Large Room True Air Purifier HEPA with Wi-Fi and $100 more than the company’s Macro Max S air purifier, both of which deliver more filtered air.
Their replacement HEPA filters cost $40. The company also sells a wide variety of air purifiers, fans, heaters and small kitchen appliances.
Dreo MC710S Air Purifying Tower Fan Review: Design
For better and worse, the Dreo MC710S air-purifying tower fan is more like a rocket Elon Musk might dream up than an air-cleaning device.
Its silver and black design takes up a modest 11.0 x 11.0 inches of space but measures 46.5 inches tall, making it one of the largest air purifiers in its class. It’s also a little heavy, weighing 18 pounds. It has a built-in handle, but could have benefited from having wheels to make it easier to move from room to room.
Manufactured by Changsha Hesung Innovation Limited, the Dreo air filter has been designed around two brushless DC motors: one to suck dirty room air from the bottom, pass it through filters, and the other to oscillate the entire the unit up to 60 degrees clockwise and clockwise. left. This is enough to distribute clean air throughout a large room while adding a level of cooling.
Designed for rooms between 150 and 300 square feet, the filter element is undersized and airflow is increased by using one of the unit’s 12 fan settings. On the downside, using the fan bypasses the filter, causing your output to be a mix of filtered and unfiltered air.
Dreo MC710S Air Purifier Tower Fan Review: How It Works
The MC710S works by directing room air through a foam pre-filter to remove large particles that could prematurely clog the high-efficiency particulate area (HEPA) filter. It can remove up to 99.97 percent of particles 0.3 microns or larger, including bacteria, pollen and smoke. It lacks, however, an activated carbon filter to eliminate organic vapors or odors or any technique to sterilize the air.
With an air delivery capacity of 1558 cubic feet per minute (CFM) at full power, the air purifying tower fan blows air horizontally across a room. But clean air flow is only half the story due to the low clean air delivery rate (CADR) of the 60 CFM filter. The Dreo Air Tower’s CADR rating is a small fraction of the 353 CFM (smoke), 347 (dust), and 380 (pollen) filtered air output of our favorite Blueair Blue Pure 211+ Auto.
The air purifying tower fan is an unusual air purifier with three different ways to control it, starting with the device’s display and control panel. The display shows air quality based on an internal laser sensor that lights up blue or green when the air is of excellent or moderate quality, while orange corresponds to a poor rating. Red means unhealthy, but these color codes do not explicitly correspond to particle level ranges.
The touch interface on the top is used to configure the air filter’s Wi-Fi connection, using manual or automatic operation, as well as to choose between displaying the particle level, fan level, temperature and how much life you get. remains to the filter. It is easy to set the fan auto-off timer and adjust the parameters with the “+” and “-” keys. Unlike others, it will remember previous settings if you are offline, perfect for moving from room to room.
There is also a small remote control that had a range of about 30 feet and came with the necessary CR2025 button battery.
The Dreo app brings it all together; The main screen displays a fan logo with the current settings and the set air quality, temperature and schedules. Additional settings for aspects such as oscillation, air quality and temperature can be found in the submenus. At the bottom is a measurement of the remaining life of the air filter. The air purifier responded almost instantly to app commands, and you can also control it through Alexa or Google Assistant.
All the filtering action is in the Home tab, while the Notifications tab interestingly has cooking recipes, the Discover tab is for other Dreo products, and the Profile p is for Dreo orders and changes like time zone. That said, the App Settings does have a way for other people with the Dreo app to share control, although it could lead to a family dispute.
Dreo MC710S Air Purifying Tower Fan Review: Performance
The fan arrived in a huge box, almost ready to go. All I had to do was unwrap it and set it up; Dreo recommends leaving at least 15 inches between the air purifying tower fan and the wall. You will need to periodically clean the pre-filter and replace the HEPA filter approximately every six months. I used 11 percent of its filtering capacity for three weeks of a particularly pollen-heavy spring.
Its two-prong plug has a built-in 2.5 amp fuse to prevent overloads, although it doesn’t consume as much power. It worked fine in my 300 square foot office set to auto, where it ran in the background with a gentle breeze, but once the particle counter increased to 38 particles per cubic meter, the LED briefly changed to orange when the fan turned on. at full blast. He quickly calmed down after a few seconds. It generally cleaned the air, but lacking a layer of activated carbon it could do nothing to counteract the smell of salmon cooking in the nearby kitchen.
Its horizontal outlet generated a gust of 6.7 miles per hour in the top configuration, measured 36 inches from the exhaust grille. That’s between the weaker Clorox Large Room True HEPA air purifier’s 4.9 mph and the Wyze air purifier’s stronger 7.8 mph wind. The lowest of the 12 different fan levels produced a light wind of 1.4 mph.
It consumed 44.2 watts of power at its highest setting, 14.3 watts at its lowest setting, and 1.4 watts at idle. If the tower fan runs 24/7 on automatic mode, it could cost about $10.30 to run, assuming you pay the national average of 15 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity. That’s twice the cost of the Clorox Large Room True HEPA Air Purifier.
Considering the amount of air it moves, the Dreo MC710S Air Purifying Tower Fan is surprisingly quiet. Measured 36 inches from its outlet, I recorded 55.0 dBA of noise at full volume in a room with a background level of 37.3 dBA. That’s significantly quieter than the Clorox Large Room True HEPA air purifier’s 58.7 dBA.
While well-made and sturdy, the Dreo MC710S Air Purifying Tower Fan comes with just a one-year warranty, versus five years of coverage for Wyze air filtration systems. Figure you will need to get a $40 HEPA filter twice a year. Dreo does not have an automatic filter element replacement program.
Dreo MC710S Air Purifying Tower Fan Review: Verdict
One of the largest home air filters on the market, the Dreo Air Purifying Tower Fan is, ironically, less than it seems, being less effective at filtering air than many smaller, less expensive air purifiers. . It also lacks an activated carbon filtering stage to eliminate odors and its warranty is only one year.
Still, you might have a spot in a house where you don’t want a fan and air purifier cluttering the room. In fact, it worked well by delaying the turning on of the air conditioning in my office by about two weeks. The Dreo MC710S Air Purifying Tower Fan is better as a high volume room fan than for filtering air. I just wish it was smaller.
