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I live in a warm humid region and have an outdoor storage area at my condo. Air doesn’t circulate well in there and a couple of months ago we discovered we had a serious problem with mold behind boxes and our suitcases. I cleaned the mold the best I could with Lysol wipes, but I wasn’t super confident that I’d actually killed all of it. About a month after my cleaning project, I went out there and noticed a strong musky smell. I dug through my belongings but couldn’t find any mold. Panicked that it was only a matter of time until the fuzzy stuff started showing up again, went online and ordered this light.I wasn’t sure if I wanted the ozone smell or no ozone smell (which reviewers still says smells). Since a lot of people said they like the smell, I figured I’d give it a try.When the light arrived, I immediately put it to use. I read through the instructions, which were fairly simple, put batteries in the remote, donned the safety glasses and turned this thing on.It was pretty easy to get this started, though you will be exposed to the light a little bit. If nothing else, you need to look into the room or area where you turned it on to make sure it’s running. You will have safety glasses for this, but your skin will almost certainly be exposed a little bit. According to the instructions, the UV light this thing puts off is 20 times more powerful than the sun on a clear day at noon. Basically, if you screw up and don’t wear the glasses, and then look at the light, seeing it without protection for 1 second is the same as staring at the sun (at noon) for 20 seconds. It’d be the same thing for skin, but I’m not so worried about 20 seconds of exposing my skin to the sun.Anyway, the light has a built-in 15, 30, or 60 minute timers. After it turns off and you go back into the room, you get hit with an overwhelming ozone smell. The instructions warn about this a little, but I had use Google for more information. Basically, ozone is hazardous and can cause headaches, coughing, shortness of breath, heavy feeling in your chest, and fluid in the lungs. None of that is good, but the good news is that (according to my reading) it’s all temporary. The light creates ozone by ionizing oxygen. It changes normal oxygen (O2) into ozone (O3). Ozone isn’t very stable and so with some ventilation, the room should return to normal in 2-4 hours. Even if you completely seal the room, the ozone should naturally decompose and be gone in 12-14 hours. I know some people like the smell, but I’m not a fan. It had a fresh-ish smell to it, but it also smells artificial – sort of like how electronics smell when they burn.But the most important thing here is that the musky smell in my storage area is completely gone. This light can cause colors to fade, but I think I’m going to run it like 15 minutes each month or two just to make sure any new mold spores are killed before they can overrun the area again.Overall, I’m very happy with the light, but I wish I’d of gone with the ozone-free light. Even if the ozone-free version smells of ozone a bit, it’d probably be less intense than what I get with my light. [...]
