As a branch of many product lines of smart home, “balcony appliances” intellectualization has gradually emerged in recent years. Intelligent drying racks have become an emerging category, much loved by consumers. For office workers who leave early and return late, it is really a good thing if the tedious household chores can be made lively and interesting.

The development of drying racks can be roughly subdivided into three processes, the first is the traditional simply to solve the trouble of drying the floor, outside the floating and hand-cranked drying racks, and then the development of electric drying racks with electric power drive, and then in recent years the favored intelligent drying racks, each function has been a great deal of development and enrichment. It is an integrated multi-functional intelligent drying rack improved on the basis of the traditional hand-cranked drying rack, which can control the lighting, and realize the functions of sterilizing, air-drying, drying and voice control.

Ultraviolet sterilization is not good

Carefully observe the intelligent drying racks on sale on various platforms, almost all claim to have ultraviolet sterilization function. However, the price difference is quite huge, hundreds and thousands of them.

The sterilization effect of ultraviolet light is closely related to the band, in which the UVC band of ultraviolet light has a certain sterilization effect, while the UVA band of ultraviolet light sterilization effect is weaker, generally speaking, it takes more than eight hours of irradiation in order to achieve the sterilization effect.

And in the Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission electric drying rack experiment results can be seen: the 25 samples involved, there are 2 pieces of UVC band, 23 pieces of UVA band (all in the 365 to 394nm between). Another nearly half of the samples of ultraviolet lamp set to work in 20 to 30 minutes, almost difficult to have a real sterilization effect.

Drying function is a sham

As one of the main selling points of the publicity, drying function has been many users spit as chicken ribs. For example, air drying as a pendulum, the wind is very weak; dual-core air drying internal fan, the wind is not USB fan, the noise is comparable to hundreds of watts of industrial fans.

In addition, not long ago, the Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission electric drying rack test results found that some of the samples of publicity function does not match the actual, there are 2 samples, web page merchants claim to have the drying function, the actual testing process found that there is no such function.

It can be seen that part of the business claimed that the drying function in the consumer purchase experience is completely useless.

Lifting load-bearing problem

In the e-commerce platform, it is not difficult to see consumers complaining about the general load-bearing capacity of the drying rack, although it is intelligent operation, but there are often shaking or shaking hard, the so-called key manipulation into a manual embarrassing situation is not uncommon. According to the information, the lifting speed of electric drying racks is too fast, which can easily lead to the instability of the parts, and the standard requires that the lifting speed of electric drying racks should be between 20mm/s and 60mm/s under the nominal load conditions. Also in this test, it was shown that the descending speed of 7 samples was too fast, exceeding the limit range stipulated in the standard, even reaching 65.7mm/s to 78.7mm/s.

In addition, some of the scissor frames of the test samples deformed to a certain extent during the test, which is a worrying problem.

In addition to this, when promoting smart drying racks, the function of voice control attracts many users. At present, under the concept of home interconnection, in fact, the birth of a number of intelligent voice control class home appliances. Refrigerators, washing machines, TVs, etc. can be voice interacted and controlled, but they are all controlled by intelligent touch screen or operating buttons. And intelligent drying rack such a need to lift the device, is it necessary to drop to a specified height before each operation, this operation in the end is to add trouble or more convenient?

Through the e-commerce platform users of a product ribbed voice function of the complaint, it is not difficult to find, want to really realize the voice control function, in fact, is the need to purchase additional audio in order to get the additional experience. Originally thought to include the function, in fact, need to spend money to unlock the new experience ......

Consumption tips

If you think that the author throughout is in complete denial of intelligent drying racks, then you are wrong! Intelligent drying racks in addition to help some people to solve the lazy hands of the idea, for the older elders, but also reduces a lot of complexity of the drying process, but the premise of getting a better experience needs to be based on the safety as well as the comfort of the experience.

For consumers to buy, I suggest to consider these factors. The first is to consider the size of the size of the rated load bearing and lifting distance, which is directly related to the entire experience of the product. Secondly, electric drying racks with ultraviolet sterilization function should be installed on outdoor balconies or balconies with physical isolation, and keep in mind to avoid looking directly at the light source. Do not exceed the rated load capacity of the product when drying clothes, and disperse the load as much as possible.