This is a very interesting device. It's a Soviet air ionizer, but it works in a different way to the ionizers that are most commonly used elsewhere in the world. Now this one is called a Ryerson 101 and Ryerson is actually a city in Russia and the image in the front of it is the Ryazan Kremlin That all adds up to an interesting feature really. And what's odd about this one is that whereas a traditional ionizer has pointy needables or carbon fibrometers to emit an electrostatic charge into the air, this one does emit the electrostatic charge. But it uses a completely different technique. And even better that I've gone through the manual with Google translate and some of the interesting things in it, there, There it is, there's the uh, there's I presume. that's a bad. It's kind of designed for above a bed. I Wonder what that is? Yeah, but there is the wire suspended nearer the ceiling. well, not that near the ceiling and there's the unit in the wall. But the interesting about this manual is it's very open about what's inside it because uh, if you keep skipping through, there's the schematic. It's actually got the circuit diagram of is of what is inside here. So let's do a quick summary on ionizers and how this one is different. So a traditional ionizer supposing? Uh, let's get a decent pen here. Supposing: this is your bedroom viewed from the side and there is your bed and you get a pillow in the bed for comfort. And maybe you've got a chest of drawers over here with the drawers sticking out. Traditionally, a British ionizer would actually just sit in the edge like that and it would be plugged into the wall and it'll make a huge mess. but it would, uh, have needles coming out the front and it would charge up the air and any dust in the ear would, uh, take on that charge and would be precipitated out to other surfaces. Now I Have to say this ionizer is being sorted. quack medical things. Uh, to me, an ionizer's primary function is to remove dust from the air. It does so really well. This was a test. I set up I put that ionized there and just left it there for ages in that area with a little bit of hazy, well the wiffle zone. For those who have seen live streams and its precipitated dust and dirt out over a period of time. and look at the difference, it's really made a huge mess. That is fundamentally what an ionizer does. It precipitates dirt out of the air and makes it stick to walls. That's why it's unpopular with some people. Anyway, the way this does it is different. The Riozan unit is that correct. Ryerson that is correct. has a thin uh .016 millimeter wire suspended in the air roughly 500 millimeters from the ceiling and that's almost two feet. and then tied onto that is a bit of fishing line that goes over to the wall and goes around a hook. And then there's another bit of fishing line at the other end that goes around the hook there and that insulates it because this thing is a very high output impedance as you'll see in a moment because I will take it to bits. The unit then mounts in the wall and then has a dangly wire. That's that yellow wire. There, a dangly wire just twists onto that wire comes across and plugs into that and they say don't let that wire go near stuff because well, it's got the charge in it and it you know it's going to deplete the effect in some way. uh. and then that unit then plugs in to the socket as before, but that then creates a high negative charge in the air and uh, and improved you're sweeping and well-being Etc That's what they claim precipitate stuff out there. that's good enough. Interestingly, in the manual they say we recommend leaving your windows open I Say no because that's going to let more pollen and dirt and impurities in. Uh, that the whole point of ionizer is to clean the air. That's why it helps asthmatics. Um, so let's just cut straight to the truth. Then let's open it. That's the best bet. So incidentally, there's a little connector a bit. it's a bit springy metal in there that you can push and we pin into. Where is that pin? there is and so we brass blade. Oh I've just pulled the screwdriver and it pushes into that and that's it. connected. Very simple to connect it and it goes on the wall with just one screw. I Don't know. Oh, that's for the cable isn't it? so they can wrap it around it. I would plug this in right now so we could see the orange new Gloom but I don't know if it's a going to explode or B fully charged up inside and give me a zap when I open it. which is that? I would please you. I've already removed a big Dodd of what I would describe as bitumen black sticky bitumen that was over the screw. I think that's a warranty thing. This thing coincidentally comes the warranty of two years, which is pretty good 24 months. There's not a lot to break usually in ionizers Anders are approved by the Ministry of Health of the USSR but they're a bit vague about the description of that. They say ionizers are approved by the Ministry of Health The construction of them, which isn't quite the same as having theirs specifically approved I would say I'm not so Keen in the design of this one. in the sense that the wire goes across, it makes it quite complicated to sell. But I get the whole point of them having that fully isolated wire hovering in the air to do its job. So inside we have a traditional voltage multiplier as shown in that schematic. What a big neon indicator! That's quite nice. Um, right. tell you what. I'm going to take some picture. These are going to test some components uh and just give values. How's that means in much use? Oh, it's got a strange electrodes as well. That's quite odd. It's a beast. Uh, right. Tell you what. one moment please. I'm just going to take some pictures of this and then we'll explore it further. Well, I've got the pictures. It's not as good a pictures as usual because that is a huge circuit board. It doesn't fit into my normal photographic equipment. but I've got the pictures so we can look at them because you just looked at the circuit board. By the way, I've put it back together and now I'm at really attempt to plug it in I have stuck a bit of wire in the side of the high voltage port with a carbon fiber emitter on it I shall just bend that up the wheel a little bit. I'm going to bring a meter in. This might just blow up I Really don't know how safe this is, but you know what? It's never stopped me in the past. Um, so I've got a death doctor here. I'm gonna plug it in. The power consumption will be virtually nothing. This might go bang. Nothing has gone bang yet. The neon indicator is gluing in there. Tell you what, right? Okay, so let's get the meter and I'll stick the negative onto an earth object in the vicinity and I'll hold it in front of the carbon fiber emitter and it's showing ionization. Very low level and actually compared to the little chain. easy modules but pretty good. Oh, you can you see that have I got this way off shot. So putting it in front it's picking up a negative. uh, potential there. That's interesting. so it is working. I Tell you what, let's take a look at that neon indicator because there's something interesting about the way they're using that as well. So I'm going to turn the light off. Oh, watch your eyes When it comes back, it's going to be Pitch Black Yeah, the neon is fairly stable. slight Shimmer visible on camera. Okay, this is where you have to watch your eyes because the light is coming back. We'll tell you what. I'll pause momentarily so it doesn't wait out and it's back right? I'll unplug this now and interesting plug right? I Shall put this to the site now. it's charged up. Tested for high voltage I Measured this wire before realizing that in the manual. Uh, where is the manual I've put it somewhere here it is I Measured it and then scribbled in the back of the manual. Wire diameter is 0.16 millimeter. It actually says that in the manual that the wire diameter is 0.16 millimeter and it says if you lose it or mess it up, just get another bit of wire of any metal. So it's the thinness is the bit that really matters here because that's a The Secret of ionizers is the the sharp needle points of effect or the charge is greatest at the ears of the highest curvature and the thin wire much like the coronavirus in a photocopiers, right, tell you what I should put this right out of the way. In fact, just watching my fingers in the plug here really give me a tingle. No, give me a tingle just Chang Sometimes they do because it is involving high voltages I'm more scared by the Death Doctor than I am by the blooming ionizer, right? So here we have it. these capacitors are 10 nanofarad 1000 volts and it's I'll just focus down onto that in fact. and it's worth mentioning that these days. Well, to be honest, this was 1990 I'm pretty sure that uh, I'm pretty sure that Mountain Breeze in the UK were making ionizers back then with much more stages than newder ones and using capacitors similar to this size and the 1n4007 diodes, this is very very Soviet It's using these big 1000 volt 10 nanofarad capacitors and the diodes are very chunky and they're rated about 800 volts um, at 300 milliamps. so if anything there, I'm not sure why they've got such big tabs on them. The 1n4007 would have been better here, but this was presumably manufactured in Russia and it's notable. The yellow line is the polarity indicator, but it's not there in all of them. The Red Dot is supposed to indicate the voltage rating and it's not there on all of them. There's the clip that the wire goes into. There is the Uh output resistor, which is a staggering value. It's over a gig. Ohm, and uh. Oddly, they've got one Mega woman series of the neon. and normally when you get such a high value resistor in series of the knee, and that's why I tried this I wanted to see. uh, the discharging is unstable. It tends to flicker about on the like a neon flicker flame candle. And it's interesting to note that in the manual, they do say if the neon is flickering about like that, it's not a fault, it's quite normal. Other than that, the the only things worth mentioning here is a standard multiplier. It's just I mean there's the the circuit board flipped so it tallies up with the front image. um. and the only other thing worth noting here is a series resistor on the incoming Supply which is used in some other ionizers and they've linked out. uh, one section of the multiplier. So there's two diodes, missing two capacitors, and it's just jumping straight from uh, this diode. um, through that where that capacitor would have been straight to the output, right? Tell you what schematic, it's a Russian schematic. It is the one out of the manual which I just blew up slightly I didn't blow it up physically but I blew it up um and uh. way to find it by using turning it to two-bit and then removing blemishes I Just so I just make it look nice. It looks very nice. This is the Russian Ionizer schematic. So this resistor here is 1K This resistor here is one Meg Ohm and this one here is 1.1 gig. Ohm so I Met that's a thousand Ohm that's a million Ohm And this is a thousand million Ohms. It's like it's the next step up. That's quite a high value. normally in something we'll say for instance, my unit, which is utter disregard for human safeties to one Mega Ohm resistors on the output. The Mountain Breeze ones tend to have the Uh 10 mega Ohm two of them in series to make up the voltage rating and the idea of really that these resistors is safety. It keeps you isolated from the main side, but it also reduces the risk if you've got a tingling zap which is what they're looking at here I Guess Hmm. Also, note how many I've got here. One, two three four five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten eleven. This is the pretty much the same as the Mountain Breeze. This is quite a small number of stages, but having said that, it's notable. The reason it was actually being able to ionize with the carbon fiber emitter is because the carbon fiber emitters are so sharp that they require lower voltage. It's a good way of upgrading an old ionizer. So here's 220b. That means 220 volt. It does also mention that it can be run 124 if they use a nice a non-isolated autotransformer. So I wonder if there's multiple vultures in Russia I Don't know. Uh, fundamentally, that's at the alternate Persian pool of the means the AC Alternatively, the current is steered via the diodes and it basically it increases it by one step each time. it doesn't supposing it double the voltage in this capacitor. It won't like double that again. the next one it just doubles and adds the very that capacitor to that one. So say for instance, it was say 600 volts across them. By the time had been doubled, it would be end up like 1 200 above the next capacitor and then 1800. and but just uh, each capacitor. I'm not doing very good here I Never do with voltage multipliers. each capacitor would only have about 600 or so volts across it. That's what I'm trying to say, but it all adds up to the high voltage at the end. they claim about 4kv I think Uh, so it's an interesting device I'm not really sure what else there is to say about this. The circuit board is oddly discolored. The flux has done something in the back. I'm guessing this is a synthetic resin bonded paper circuit board will look for. not sure. Um, the tracks are strangely three-dimensional as if they're almost lifting off the circuit board. Maybe they are lifting off the circuit board. Um, the way they've attached the neon is very odd. They've got a little tongue of sort of like a U-shaped cut out into the circuit board, and they've basically slipped a little rubber sleeve over that. and then they've pushed the knee in through the rubber sleeve to hold it in place. Odd, but very expected. Strange. The output there. They could have just used 210 Mega but they've chosen it. Must be quite hard getting such a high value of resistor. Also, it has to be rated for a fairly high voltage. That's why the other ionizers tend to use a multiple of Uh standard resistors to make up that higher voltage. Not to really matters because as soon as you approach it this is still currently limited. It clamps it down anyway, but that is more or less. I'm trying to think if there's anything else to see in here, but there's not really much to say about it. It makes interesting reading it to get all the quack things of betterment of health and well-being But Ultimately, it's just a dust precipitator, isn't it? But that's it. Special affect you back in. that is the Uh Ryerson 101 Uh, Soviet Uh ionizer.