Wire tests dozens of air purification devices per year. Here is what we are looking for (2025)

If I put a box on his side and cannot understand the product to raise it from its box, this is the first blow. WIRED is considering access, and this means handles and wheels on heavy air purifiers. When I review a unit, I think about those who have strength at the top of the upper part of the body move the devices, and whether they are able to maneuver around their home. Transfer air purification devices throughout my apartment; I should not bend the knees to adjust the purification device.

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It managed to move the Prox 50 pounds using its hidden handles and closed wheels.

After the air purification device is not flexible, it is time to associate it. All air purification operations have no application wirelessly, but if this happens, the conjugation process should not be complicated, and it should not require much time. The best user experience is when the Air purification is the QR symbol that opens the application and adds the device. Usually there is everything that is required, which is a graphic drawing, a simple graph, corresponding to AQI colors, usually everything that is required, although it is a bonus if the application gives the expected life.

I prefer a simple power bar design that shows the percentage of the filter used. Although air purification models make recommendations for the date for replacing the candidate, such as every six months, or when the candidate indicator light illuminates on the device, nothing beyond knowing the exact amount of the candidate that was used.

Internal air sensors, lights and grades

While some air purification devices have internal air sensors when the test started for the first time in 2018, the majority of the current purification devices we are experiencing now. If the purification is internal sensors, there is usually an indicator light. The following question: Does the air purification device contain the light of the easy -to -read index or the air index (AQI)? If the purification of the smart air, the sensor’s readings feed on the application of the device. The best indicator light follows Environmental Protection Agency Colors icons For the air quality indicator. This means the green color of good, yellow, moderate, orange for sensitive, red, purple, purple, very flammable, and maroon. There are some companies, such as Coway, which have their own color codes, which can be confusing.

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while Coway air purifiers They are the shots with a higher classification of Wire, if I can change one thing about them, that will be the dedicated color scale, as it means blue well and green means moderate. More air purifiers also display air quality numbers for their internal sensors. Most of the time, air purification devices will appear reading PM 2.5. If the inner sensor is comfortable at PM 2.5, then the mode of cars will lead to a higher fan speed, the orange and red indicator light may appear with the PM 2.5 number. I must be able to see this light across the room, and the numbers should be easy to read.

Then there are some models, like those from sharkThat uses their registration system. The result is 100 good air on the Neverchange’s Shark, for example, but 100 pm 2.5 will be considered unhealthy.

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Noise and size is a matter

I think putting signs on the air purification devices intentionally. Often, square shots are listed on the product one Air exchanging an hour at the highest purpose preparation. Air exchange is the number of times that purifies air The air can be cleaned for the room in one hour. US Disease control and prevention centers It recommends five air exchange per hour. If you have a 200 square feet room, the air purification device should be able to pull the air from the room to the candidate using the fan. This air passes through the filter, the 1.5 and VOCS p. Often, WIRED will not recommend air purifiers that can clean small spaces unusually. Although these table purification devices or miniature air purifiers look an easy solution, they are usually very small to effectively clean the air in a medium -sized room.

Also wireless Use a decibel meter To check the despell requests for the manufacturer. Most of the time, the dysible is close to those listed on the user of the purification device users. Sometimes it is higher. What is very noisy? The refrigerator is somewhere between 40 and 50 decibels. Conversation is about 60 decibels. Ideally, the air purification device should be able to clean the air in your room five times an hour without appearing to be a conversation. And if the air purification device is louder – higher – from the manufacturer’s claims, we will include this in our review or will not recommend it.

If the air purification device is very high in the highest settings for fans, it is possible that users will reject this fan speed to a quieter and less effective setting, making the air purification device more than just a well -being. Another problem that WIRED takes into account is that when the air eats over the outer openings, causing the assembly blocks of pet hair on the outer part of the air purification device.