CleanEffects ultimate users guide. And tips. The CleanEffects air filter is the best but only if you follow these handy do it yourself tips I've learned installing them in a few houses. Okay first off I will reply to the guy who said the filtering blinking green light on the indicator panel did not blink when using his fan 24/7 question. The green blinking indicator light only blinks when the filter is fully functional and will stop blinking and be solid when in warm-up mode or waiting for the blower to start up if the blower is set to auto. The filter light does blink/turn on when using the fan only and/or when the A/C is on when wired correctly by the installer. (read on for alternate solution) Okay now for the tips i've learned & want to pass on since I really like this filter and have one in my house and installed one in my moms house recently aswell. You will need a strong spray nozzle for your home water hose or one of those small electric plug in water pressure cleaners to spray down the plastic coils every 4 to 6 months because the really dont get very clean with a vacuum cleaning only the pre-filter can be cleaned with the vacuum. Vacuum usually once a month will do for the pre-filter. So plan for this in advance as you will need one or the other. (strong water hose nozzle or small electirc pessure cleaner). The front door has two metal pins that slip into notches on the unit. When these metal pins dont line up during install they can get bent or come bent during shipping. This is the cause of the door being excessively hard to close on some installs. To fix this simply bend these netal pins a little to the sides and the small bottom feet down or up so they line up nicely and the door will open and close smoothly & make cleaning the pre-filters & plastic coils a breeze. Next I have noticed that some air handlers are so strong that they can pull the plastic pre-filter that comes with the CleanEffects unit within range of the electric metal coils and cause the coil to turn off. To solve this problem noted by several posters that noticed the coils keep turning off causeing the yellow fault lights to blink or the green filter light to stay solid, you can hang a small weight off of the pre-filters center frame work to pull it away from the coils. a small string with a weight handing off of it can do the job. I used some plastic coated metal cloths hangers to form some small hooks that i use to pull the pre-filter down away from the coils. They hang perfectly from the pre-filters plastic support arms. This will solve most of the problems with coils that turn off to what seems to be randomly when its really do to some air handlers being to strong and pulling the filter close to the metal coils and causing coil faults. I love my CleanEffects Trane air filter and I hope the above tips solve a lot of confusion thats going on out there. The filter really works great once the above ajustments are made and looked for. (I have contacted Trane with the above tweaks & hopefully they can tweak the plastic pre-filter that seems to be the cause of many of the troubles being reported.) But dont wait your health is to important & the CleanEffects system really is a great air cleaner even if a little quirky its worth having NOW & not worth putting off until later since its so easy to tweak. =) Feel free to post questions here as i will check up on this post from time to time. Or email me at RikiiTikii at yahoo d o t com signed, Ricky of Miami p.s. If you ever look up at the CleanEffects from underneath when the A/C is on at night you will see an amazing Tesla coil like Electrical light show, it really is that futuristic & how youll know its truly working properly.

I have the CleanEffects system placed on my HVAC unit a few years ago and it ran great for a few seasons. I regularly cleaned the system as recommended by the manufacturer but last year the system failed to work. If I could give you advice would be to install a 5 inch pleated filter instead. You will not need to run your system fan all the time and you will only need to replace the filter once a year with normal use. Save your money on the expensive system that only works for a few years.

Keep in mind the HEPA, whether a furnace bypass model or standalone, does not see 100% of the return air as a furnace mounted air cleaner does. Your best install for housekeeping is the Clean effects. A HEPA standalone can always be purchased later and placed in bedroom or added to system later as usually only 15-20% of ducted air can travel through HEPA without expensive and usually load booster fans added to residential systems, besides space required for banks of filters to remain below 100 fpm.

I am writing this late in the game....but I want to steer people away from the clean effects. We built our house in 2015....had clean effects installed. I was never impressed, more dust than in our previous house....i just thought it was a piece of crap, a huge waste of money. During a yearly service call, the a/c technician told us the door to the clean effects was upside down and this was why it was not working. Still no improvement, but still thought it was just a crappy, expensive product. Fast forward....come to find out the unit is blowing fuses...you put the door on, start it up, and the fuse blows. To replace/fix will be 1300.00 DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY and buy the trane clean effects....i would go so far as to say stay clear of trane all together! i know i will!