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> they take about the same time as any other dryer This is false. Before the Dyson Airblade and the really loud Xlerator ones, World Dryer was the most common
by dtwest 7y ago
> they take about the same time as any other dryer
This is false. Before the Dyson Airblade and the really loud Xlerator ones, World Dryer was the most common hand dryer (in America at least), and they are awful. Forget about 10 seconds, you could stand there for 60 seconds and still want to use paper towels after.
- djaychela 7y agoSorry, it's not false. I dried my hands using an Airblade V2 on Saturday in a services washroom. I timed it. It took 32 seconds. I did the same when using another make (when I was at PyconUK, in Cardiff city hall, feel free to check them out), and it took 30 seconds.
- simias 7y agoWas the other drying one that used a similar design as Dyson's Airblade or something that predates it? Because the parent was talking about the state of the art for hand dryers before Dyson and I concur with them, it was pretty shit. On the other hand I wouldn't be surprised if other vendors these days managed to clone Dyson's design and even improve on it.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI don't get the times in this thread. 30 seconds is still ridiculously long. I could dry my hands with a hair dryer at minimum setting faster than that. On Dyson ones I used I could dry my hands in under 15 seconds. How are you people drying your hands?
- LoSboccacc 7y agoI don't get the craze for those fastest but actually slow hand dryers I dry them on jeans pockets and it takes two seconds top
- dpark 7y agoYou should consider that perhaps everyone else isn’t crazy. Dyson claims 12 seconds. Undoubtedly that is optimistic and many people will find it takes longer if they aren’t doing it exactly the way Dyson expects. Personally I like the new air blades but also don’t find that they fully dry my hands. They get most of the water off and I move in with life. If I wanted my hands towel dry, I’m pretty sure I’d need more than 12 seconds.
- afandian 7y agoMaybe because they were bold enough to make the trade-off. In a competition hand dryer that doesn't really work vs one that damages your hearing... I'll keep wet hands thanks.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThat damages your hearing? Surely there must be a space between. Long time ago in a McDonald's in Poland I used one that would dry your hands in 5 seconds flat. It was powerful and loud, but only as loud as a blender. Which is loud, but not painful or damaging to ears... EDIT: it looked similar to this one: https://www.qbicwashrooms.co.uk/magnum-multidry-hand-dryer-white.html https://www.qbicwashrooms.co.uk/magnum-multidry-hand-dryer-w... Except it had even lower power rating. I don't get why this states "25 seconds". Do people have hands made from sponge?
- afandian 7y agoAll I know is that Dyson hand dryers and Animal vacuum cleaners are well above my pain threshold. I think using them regularly certainly would damage my hearing. I actively avoid them. It's down to diversity, I suppose. I'm no super-hearer (I don't really think my hearing is different to anyone else's) but obviously the engineers at Dyson didn't care about people like me. I use another brand of 'blade' type dryers (I forget which) every day and it's fine.
- dpark 7y ago> I don't get why this states "25 seconds". Do people have hands made from sponge? I don’t know why 25 seconds is hard to believe. That’s the manufacturer’s claim. I’d imagine if anything their claim is optimistic and the 60 seconds people claim is more realistic. If you have washed your hands properly, you’ll have several milliliters of water spread across the surface. Slow blowing warm air isn’t going to dry that off in 5 seconds.
- carlmr 7y agoThere was this TED talk once about shaking your hands twice to only need one towel. I've been doing it ever since and an Airblade will dry my hands in 10 seconds.
- ehnto 7y agoXlerators are an auditory health hazard. You can hear them running outside the gym before you can hear the music blaring.
- bdamm 7y agoThe emerging research showing hearing damage to children, who stand closer and lower in to the air blower, is pretty damning. I'll pretty much never use these if I can avoid it. Paper towel is quick, it's quiet, it's mess free, and it's made out of a renewable resource that pulls CO2 from the air. What's not to like about paper towels?
- redwall_hp 7y agoAll hand dryers are a health hazard. They're a wet, warm, bacteria incubator that can then aerosolize the bacteria. In contrast, the mechanical action of drying your hands with a paper towel is an additional antibacterial step.
- dpark 7y agoWhy do you imagine that normal hands dryers are wet? The original Dyson airblades? Sure. Those are gross. Normal air dryers don’t have anywhere to store water, and if somehow you got water inside, it would rapidly dry itself out from normal use.
- officialjunk 7y ago
- Retric 7y agoI can’t stand that noise those Dyson Airblade makes, it’s just as unpleasant as the Xlerator’s and I generally avoid bathrooms with either hand dryer. Normal models may be slower, but the only way they are taking 60 seconds if it’s broken or you never move your hands.