The Laundry Alternative Ninja Spin Dryer - Portable for Clothes, 3200 RPM With High Tech Suspension System - for Apartments, RV Travel - Emerald

The first unit I received was defective. Not a huge deal aside from the inconvenience; that happens with the best products and companies. The most important measure of quality for the money is what they do about that. This seller was very responsive and shipped a replacement immediately, along with a pick up for the old unit. I had my new unit in a couple days. The new unit is working as advertised.This dryer is great. It works very quickly and gets clothes almost completely dry - an impressive feat for a machine that does not use heat. It slashed tumble dry times in my 110v dryer down to less than a third of what they were before. With this machine I can now do a load of laundry with my mini machines in the same amount of time as (or less than) a traditional machine. It only takes a couple minutes to extract most of the water. You can set it on the counter and put the drain over the sink (I recommend a fine mesh drain trap to capture any lint if you do), or you can set a large container at the bottom (choose a larger one than you think because this extracts a LOT of water). Make sure to balance the load and use it on a flat, level surface or the machine will wobble and not work efficiently. Try to put the clothes in evenly but also hold onto the meaning for a few seconds after it starts to let it adjust itself. It should still wobbling and go quiet in a couple seconds. It should be fairly quiet and steady.I’m very happy with my purchase. It’s an important addition to my small space. Light enough to lift onto the counter, narrow enough to store in a tinycloset, fast enough to shave hours off my laundry tome, and affordable enough to keep my total cost for all three items (washer, spin dryer, and 110v tumble dryer) well under the cost of a full-size set.

You have to be sure to put this on the edge of the bathroom sink, but it is so quiet and works better than the spin cycle on a full sized machine. The clothes are like 95% dry. This gadget is durable and easy to use. It works quickly too! I bought this since my mini washer didn’t have a great spin cycle—this is def worth the 150. You get what you pay for.

The Ninja centrifugal ('spin') clothes dryer is working like I expected.What has surprised me is that it's more gentle starting-up than I thought it'd be and the sound it makes is more of a 'purr ' than the noise I was expecting.I put the dryer on a AC power outlet strip with an on/off switch so I can power-down the dryer without engaging the mechanical brake that is engaged if the power-switch on the dryer is used. In that way I allow the spin dryer to spin down much more slowly than if the brake was engaged (I then use the dryer's power switch to engage the brake once the drum is almost completely stopped).The spin dryer has surprisingly good bearings and it takes several minutes to spin down to whereI engage the mechanical brake (i.e. I turn-off the dryer using its on/off switch with integral brake).So far (without having taken it apart) my best guess is that the spin dryer uses an under-sized two-poleinduction motor and it takes 20 to 30 seconds to get up-to-speed when power is applied.---------------------------I find that it's best to press-down on the dryer housing when it's first turned-on as slight imbalances in the load can cause the dryer to shake as the drum comes-up-to-speed and it passes through mechanical resonant frequencies. Once the drum is spinning pretty well the spin dryer is stable with minor vibrations being felt if the body of the dryer is touched.The feet on the dryer are of a material that serves to damp mechanical vibrations of the case. It is important for the dryer to be sitting directly on a solid surface as otherwise damaging mechanical oscillations (as the drum comes-up-to-speed) might occur.-----------------------------------For someone like me it's OK but it'd be too much of a bottleneck in the wash-cycle for a family with a lot of clothes to wash on a weekly basis.I can stuff 4 or 5 long-sleeve shirts into the dryer or (roughly) 3 bath towels. Then it's about a threeminute spin-cycle to squeeze-out most of the water. After that everything still goes up on hangers for air-drying but there's significantly less water in the fabric (at the start of the air-drying process) compared to if the clothes went straight from the washer to air-drying.The 'Ninja ' centrifugal spin dryer is (in my opinion) targeted at the same people who find 'tiny homes 'an interesting concept.--------------------------------------------------------From what I can tell the overall quality of the Ninja centrifugal ('spin') dryer is good. It isn't 'commercialquality ' but for under $160.00 it's reasonable.The only ventilation louvers for the motor are on the bottom of the case and I'm guessing the designers were worried that water would get inside if they put louvers on the sides.I'd be happier if I could force-air-cool the motor but have sternly 'told-myself ' not to take-out-the-drillwhile the dryer is new.--------------------------------------------------------- Paul

The spinner gets lots of water out and clothes are mostly dry. Has a large capacity- I have put 5 bath towels or 3 pair of women’s jeans. But it is hard to get large loads balanced.I’m not new to using a spinner. I have a small portable washer with spinner on the side I purchased this when the spinner quit working. The spinner on the washer was great and easy to balance. This spinner is harder to balance especially if filled over 1/2. Easier to balance if you put small things like socks in the bottom. Jeans are next to impossible to balance if you have more than one pair of jeans at a time. Otherwise you will be adjusting the load 4-5 times to get it to balance.But once balanced does great at extracting water so clothes dry quickly.I have used this for about 1-1/2 months running between 10 and 12 loads a week. ( I have run a minimum of 50 loads) There is a learning curve to getting loads balanced the first time.