Looking for an air purifer for my apartment bedroom.
I've been having a blocked nose in the morning for the past few months every time I turn on the air con overnight.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/752808
Comments didn't sound too good for the above Philips model.
Appreciate any recommendations and experiences.
The hepa filter in the IKEA captures 99.5%
While most other ones (Philips, Xiaomi) 99.95%
Buy two of them, then you'll be covered 199%.
Maths is hard
Maybe the aircon dry up the environment so much your nose just have hard time self lubricating
If so then a cheap humidifier will solve the nose problem. Spend a bit more and it'll maintain the programmed humidity.
Would recommend the xiaomi air purifier. Really good price for the value you get.
The current generations of Xiaomi use an RFID chip in the filters- I believe this forces you to change filter after the 'recommended' usage period (something along the lines of 3-6 months, irrc).
Or can you override the system and force the purifier to keep running on an 'old' filter?
I've tested various filters at home, casually but around half a dozen brands over the past decade. I've tested the older Xiaomi units using the same filters, and the filters remain effective at multiples of what their recommended lifespan.
what's the last model/gens without rfid ?
Choice reviewed them a couple of days ago.
A good way to start a membership, I reckon, considering that the best cost close to a grand.
Choice reviews are no experts in the field they are reviewing, so these days the reviews are more opinion pieces at best.
"Most CHOICE product reviews are conducted in our own labs, but when a test calls for skills or equipment that we don't have, and that aren't cost-effective for us to obtain, we partner with other expert, accredited labs. This is the case with our air purifier tests."
Then those results are written up and spun with loads of 'opinion'. Regardless, most of the reviews are not done in real labs, but done choices 'labs' aka office and written with spin. I stopped reading/paying for choice a long time ago as the reviews become more and more useless.
The industry doesn't think so.
LOL Choice is riding on past performance. Lots of people knowledgeable on the topics reviewed think choice has turned into trash. But no one is stopping you getting a membership or following the advice.
Get your aircon cleaned out, it is probably a reservoir of bad bugs!
how get clkeaned out?
I ended up with the Philips 2000i and it's done wonders for my cat allergy sucking dander out of the air. I got it from the Father's Day cashback which made it a lot cheaper. It is a more expensive model than the one you are looking at, but I can say that my Philips air purifier is was worth it.
I can recommend Dyson, they work (tested during the Canberra bushfire when sky was orange), it's has a fancy app and comes with a fan + heater but expensive. All the geeks out there, it can fully automated via HA.
Now I'm about to test Philips 1000.
This one was clearly the best for the CHOICE testers - Samsung AX7500K (AX90T7080WD. For dust and smoke, but poor for VOCs.
$799 at Bing Lee
Is vehicle emissions considered as smoke or VOCs ?
Vehicles as in cars, generally considered to be particulate (e.g. the PM2.5 or PM10 stuff that gets mentioned). Some gas pollutants like NOX, high traffic commercial shipping tends to produce sulfur dioxides.
Air purifiers are not the mysterious black boxes that people seem to think they are. They are literally just a fan with a HEPA filter in front of it. There's no need to subscribe to paywalled testing sites, there's no need to confuse things with VOCs (plot reveal: Almost no purifiers are any use with VOCs, and the ones that are useful are obvious because they have honking great big kilo+ activated carbon units in them).
For an effective purifer, it just has to move 'enough' air at a 'reasonable' noise level for your environment. Bigger the room, bigger the purifier.
But as someone else has already mentioned- the problem is more likely with the AC drying out the room. If it's actively dumping pollutants into the air, OP has to look at the source, not patch it up after the fact with a purifier.
Do they purify CO ?
I have the Bonaire 5 ducter gas heaters at home. Just want to know if these Air Purifiers protect from any CO leakages from the heaters.
No
What about the Ikea one that looks like a side table?