 This is Nate Adams with energy smart home performance, and I want to walk you through a product that I was sent to demo This is a particles plus Particle counter. It's their 5000 series. They also have a 7000 series that has a battery in it Where this one you can see I have to plug in But I found this to be a really nice unit and I want to say thank you for Adam G over there for sending it over I would pronounce Adam's last name, but I would butcher it horribly gets Italian It has 15 or 20 characters to it. It's one of the longest names. I've seen so good job, Adam I hope you could spell that before you were in second grade But In any case, I'll walk you through how this works. I had found I really like this one of the big things that this does is it gives you real-time feedback where I also have an air advice and You don't find out what happened until you upload the data after the fact So it's not necessarily useful for finding problems where this is So Adam comes from the clean room industry and So this is really a scaled-down clean room instrument. So this is a fairly expensive unit. This is 4,000 or so Not exactly sure on the exact cost You'd have to talk about that, but I'll walk you through how this thing works So if you know it on the home screen here You can see it shows you the relative humidity and the carbon dioxide all the time now I'm breathing near it. So it's picking me up It'll drop to you know four or five hundred. I live right on State route so you may hear some trucks going by during this video and But it's nice that I can see this so I have an idea of what's going on now This also will show you all kinds of things you can see over here. There's the particle sizes and This is a pump here that pumps almost three liters a minute through it And then it can count exactly how many Particles it detects at the various sizes. So there's a laser in here really cool thing is these sizes are configurable in here So say you're looking for a piece of pollen and you know, it's between it's say point six microns You can set it up for between point five five and point six five and bin it and find out How many of that particle there is for a homeowner? So pretty slick. So I'm going to turn the pump on Oh Oops, okay, leave it running and The pump is definitely a little bit noisy I clocked it at 75 decibels But that's the brakes So if you're going to use this you can put a hose on the end of this and hide it in a closet or something like that where The occupants are less likely to notice the noise But what I think is pretty slick is you can change exactly what is shown here. So Like it's on particle count right here, but you can change it to How many it's finding per cubic foot per cubic meter and Then the weight so micrograms Per cubic meter. I just find this to be very slick and nice to see So then if you take a look over here You can I plugged it in is my kitchen The sample is a minute long So you'll see this reset in a second and the hold is zero So it just instantly goes from the next cycle, but you can set it so there you wait in between the cycles and You can make it last longer because it'll hold 45,000 records Which is about a week of every minute records So This is one of the main screens here, but I can flip over to one of the other main screens This one I find very useful With the radio buttons down here. You can select which particle size you want to watch and On other screens it will show up, but then you can also use this to sniff things out So say you're looking for something in this particle range. This is its sensitivity meter here So I can make it really sensitive so it spikes But then I can back it off and then go walk around with this unit and try and figure out where the source of Those particles are so if you know you have an issue or you suspect you have an issue You can actually use this real time to sniff out issues Which is pretty slick it also does data logging and there's much more data logging behind this as well But this shows you the real time and this is the channel 2 that I just selected another screen And this is kind of the the main screen and see what's going on. So just nice cycles through all that You can also set this up For how it's going to record the data and if you plug in a USB You can download it onto that and then put it on to your computer as well to play with that data and in the settings I Really think this is like you can change what size particles you're looking for It's what I was mentioning earlier. That's just that's incredibly cool that it has that capability So that gives you just a quick overview of what this thing does and I just find it to be a very useful tool I don't do enough indoor air quality work right now to probably justify it But I can see it coming my way and when that happens. This is definitely going to be a tool It's going to be high on my list. So thank you Adam for sending this to me to play with I've had a lot of fun You