Active Ventilation
Comparing Ventilation in Saunas
What is Active Ventilation?
Other infrared saunas offer only a choice between no ventilation and passive ventilation. With that, you can simply open a vent, or close it.
High Tech Health saunas, however, offer a third option: active ventilation. With active ventilation, air is forced through a vent with a fan, similar to how healthy air is managed in the typical home. This offers significant health advantages over passive ventilation.
All Transcend saunas include active ventilation standard.
Data shown for a single adult male inside a two-person sauna.
Advantages of Active Ventilation
Exchanging sufficient air inside your sauna with the air outside of your sauna ensures that the air stays fresh and healthy, and doesn’t get stuffy.
This is very important in a sauna because the smaller enclosed space enables stuffy air to build up very quickly. This is uncomfortable and can make you feel drowsy. For some people this leads to feeling claustrophobic. This is unhealthy because carbon dioxide is displacing oxygen.
46% lower carbon dioxide
For a single adult male in a two-person sauna, active ventilation maintains about a 46% lower concentration of carbon dioxide during your session compared to standard passive ventilation.