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UPDATED 8/6/15:Still LOVE this unit, and it has continued to work flawlessly! I had marked my phone's calendar for the one year mark since installation as a reminder to crawl under the house (where I installed it) take it apart and clean it, clean the exhaust vent as well (as best as I could) and put it back together as general maintenance. I'm glad I did, as the unit had some build up lint for sure inside of it. Not that you would know it, as it continued to run perfectly, but could've perhaps reduced the life of the unit had it gone too long, I don't know. Anyways, quick and easy to uninstall, clean, and reinstall, and I reset my calendar for another year and I should be good to go. Definitely recommend this to anyone with poor drying due to long vent runs.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I typically don't write reviews, but I wanted to share how incredibly well this unit works for us and for the price is worth every penny!A quick back story. We bought our house a little over a year and a half ago, and it has upstairs laundry. Our dryer, which was bought used off some friends awhile back was really struggling to dry our clothes, especially large loads. We're talking taking two to three 70 minute cycles to dry clothes. So when black Friday came around we went and bought a brand new set. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to give us the drastic drying time increase we were expecting, so then we hired a company to come out and clean the exhaust line and that is when we discovered two things. First, the line was clogged with all sorts of lint from years of use without being cleaned, and second, the dryer line was pushing 40 FEET LONG!! For whatever reason, the idiot builders of the house decided (my guess is they forgot until it was too late) that rather than putting the dryer next to the exterior wall upstairs and having it exhaust a total of 18" out the wall, instead they put it as far away from the wall as you could in the room, and have the exhaust go 90* down, 90* to the right, then 6 feet towards the middle of the house, then 90* again down, drop an entire story to go under the house into the crawl space, 90* bend again and then a 30ft run to the side of the house. Mind you now, that each 90* bend adds about 5-7ft equivalent length to the dyer run.So after the cleaning we still weren't seeing very good drying times, and our brand new dryer was getting very hot to the touch as it tried to dry clothes, and push the hot moist air out the exhaust line. We had tons of wet lint build up inside the dryer to the point that after every load (which typically took two cycles) we would have to wipe down the door from all the small wet lint, and we even had some instances where the moisture would build up so much inside that we would get beads of water rolling down the front of the dryer from the dryer door.This is when I started researching products, and ultimately came to buy the Fantech DBF 110 Dryer booster fan, and absolutely couldn't be happier with that decision!! Install was pretty easy, the hardest part for me, was wiring in a new outlet under my house so that I had the option to unplug this unit when it was time to do preventative maintenance on it vs. having it hard wired 24/7. One negative for my application, was that the really cool feature of the auto on/off sensor (another reason I bought this unit over others) doesn't work for me. The reason being, is that I installed it on the straight run under my house, and there is just too many 90* bends ahead of the unit that cuts down the force from the dryer upstairs and it doesn't have enough pressure to activate the sensor. So I had to simply follow the wiring diagram in the manual and rewire the unit so it just ran 24/7 once plugged in. I then bought a RF switch that I plugged it into so that I now have what looks like a car key remote hanging next to my dryer upstairs, and when we run a load, we push the button on the key fob, and it turns on the fan, and when we're done it we hit the button to turn it off. It works out really well, and we will save the life of the fan a little by not running it all the time.Bottom line this unit is worth every penny, we can now dry large loads of laundry in 40 minutes, and on smaller loads, even less. I would happily recommend this product to others who have similar needs. Total now, I've had this unit in place and running for about a month with no issues.
