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We are offering a brand new and genuine Philips AC1215/70 50W Simba Air Purifier, for clearance price of $199 including FREE shipping. All orders dispatched within 24 hours (business days) Australia wide.
This product comes with full Australian warranty from Philips.
Last few units are available and the offer stands while stock last.
Get it here - https://walla.com.au/products/philips-ac1215-70-50w-simba-ai…
wow what a bargin!
$275 at HN
Good price, but I'm concerned about the ability to purchase filter replacements, especially since it has been discontinued. I've read reports of issues sourcing filters which has deterred me from buying this model :-(
@kilogram, can you confirm the above ? im interested
Bought the next bigger model during the Black Friday sale. The advantage of Philips' design is there are three separate filters and you can clean the outer ones regularly to prolong the life of the HEPA filter. Non-OEM filters are available
Yeah I recently bought their AX3300M model which I am pretty happy with. I also have a Winix Stage 5 (which is hands down, ah-mazing!) but was looking at something for a smaller room so I don't need to play the shell game and shuffle them around depending on where they are needed.
Pro tip: take out the honeycomb filter and the HEPA filter every couple of months, go outside and gently bang it up against a wall (preferably when it's not windy and while wearing a P2 face mask). You'll prolong the life of the filters even more that way since you're not allowing the other two filters to literally sit there and continue to collect/clog up with dust.
I have two of these bought from Myer last year. Checked this morning when I was looking at a warranty issue and I could still buy filters from Myer. Did a quick Google now and I can see filters available from usual suspects Harvey Norman, Bing Lee and even Amazon. It's nearly a year now so time for me to replace the filters.
Has the unit told you the filters need replacing? Do you recommend these units?
Neither unit has told me to replace the HEPA or Carbon filter yet. I clean out the outer filter once every month.
We have this running in our bedroom and the kids bedroom. Turn it on at night time and set for night mode most of the time (sometimes wife will forget and leave it running during the day in front of the balcony door with the door open just so we can do our bit and filter the planet!
Do I recommend these? Well to be honest I don't know. Bought them because our place has problem with dampness during the wet months and we have found mould before. So as precaution, we have bought these to prevent any potential health issues relating to that. Whether it's effective in this?!? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Its set to auto and goes on when it detects a need to, based on how often that comes on, I guess it's doing it's job :D Sorry can't be more help. We did not get this during the fire/smoke season so don't have any review from that period.
Speaking of Harvey, LatitudePay promo right now, good time to buy a filter :-)
@thestig: A few things for you to consider.
When I bought these, from my research, these offered one of the best price per square meter protection with a 3-filter system (HEPA included) system.
For the size of our rooms, with other makes/models we would have needed 2 units to cover the same area.
Honestly though, I didn't see if different vendors had different ways of measuring the effective square meter coverage that they publish :D
Also:
1. the Light dimmed so it wasn't glowing brightly at night time
2. had a night mode so it wasn't going as hard or be noisy.
makes this purifier very discrete instead of being some some red eye, roaring monster that would wake and scare the kids at night :D
@nfusion: Thanks for the tips, I ordered one on your recommendation. Hopefully it helps the little guy and maybe even us!
this or the famous xiaomi Air Purifier ?
xiaomi has remote app control via wifi, and replacement filters are around $40
I've heard the Xiaomi 3H filters need to be changed every 6 months irrespective of their condition and can't be removed and replaced again due to an RFID tag on them. Can anyone confirm or advise if this is wrong?
mine is more than a year old, app says filter still has around 70% life left.
depends on how often you use the machine.
Same. Mine is a little more than a year old too and the filter is still good according to the app.
@Davesday: actually a friend bought the same unit at the same time as me. They live in the CBD and run theirs much more often - every day, I believe. His filter status went to 0 in around september 2020 and had to be replaced.
I take this to mean that the amount of blergh the filter has been through also affects filter longevity.
@andresampras: you can bypass that 0 filter life remaining by blocking the rfid at the bottom of the filter. I have 4 Xiaomi Air Filters in my home plus this Philips purifier. I like the Philps more in terms of performance but unfortunately it doesnt have smart features that would allow me to schedule the on and off of the machine.
@blackpizza: really? simply blocking the rfid tag bypasses the check?
lol weird.
In any case, considering how much I use it (and the low levels it detects most of the time) I'm happy to replace the filter - it being the most critical part for the air filter to perform its intended function as well as possible.
Yes that's correct. In short, Xiami force you to buy filters when they say so. Which means you need to have one ready to go when the unit shuts down and asks for a new one, otherwise, you need to buy one and wait for it to arrive. That was what made me scratch them off the list of possibilities.
Plus, seriously… an RFID tag? No thanks!!!
Yes I wish I knew about the stupid RFID thing before I bought it.
Despite how popular they are apparently almost noone puts up useful info about them.
I was deciding between the ac1215/70 and the xiaomi 3H, I don't care about the stupid smart features and I really wish you could get full access to them without the need to log the air purifier into your wifi and give it access to location details.
You can manually connect to the purifier on its own wifi network, but you can't run the proper smart features from that.
I don't care about the stupid smart features and I really wish you could get full access to them
Is this a typo?
Also I don't see how any product could have smart features without being connected to the internet…
@Telios: Yeah I agree. I'm super conscious about certain Chinese products being connected to my home WiFi which is why I have them all on a separate 2GHz network. And being forced to have an appliance connect to it when it's absolutely not necessary is even more questionable.
@KangaDrew: Indeed I'm going to setup a old android phone thats been wiped as a tethered wifi network.
I'm pretty sure it even has bluetooth built in so there's really no good reason to force people to use the app just to turn off the backlight (for example).
This is true based on the time used. I never replaced mine even though it says expired. Doesn't stop the machine or anything. You just need to check and clean it. Although I say never replaced it, I probably will after a while. Just not based on Xiaomi's timing.
How does this compare to the $50 Bunnings one ?
Its all down to the filtration design and how easily to obtain replacement filters. The rest are electronics and a mechanical fan of which the sensor readout is important. The sensor must be able to accurately read out the ppm and detect dusts so the system can adjust fan speed up or down.
What is the use of these? Workshops?
Bushfire, thunderstorm asthma, hay-fever seasons, house dust mite allergy
https://www.philips.com.au/c-p/AC1215_70/series-1000-air-pur…
replacements are available from retailers only? weird Phillips!@@#@#$!@$%@#$#
I never used one of these do they really have a impact to the air we breathe???also is this only fits in standard bedroom or can be used in bigger rooms as well?
I have 2 Air Purifiers in the masters bedroom, 1 Philips and 1 Xiaomi- i find this to be much more sensitive in picking up particles as it activates itself even when i am just changing bed sheets. If only this has smart feature I would have gone all Philips in my entire house.
I find the opposite for my xiaomi…
It doesn't seem to care what you do near it, the sensor never moves above 2-5.
I decided to change sheets and vacuum next to it and see and it didn't go up at all…
I have an old Sharp unit in a bedroom that does similar. Haven't compared it with the xiaomi directly (xiaomi in lounge), that would be an interesting experiment.
The xiaomi definitely detects stovetop activity in the kitchen though, particularly when the frying pan is in use.
It doesn't have a timer but you can use a smart plug for auto on and off
Oz Bar Gins ???