How To Tell If An Air Purifier Is Working or Not! 4 Easy Ways
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
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Air purifiers are generally easy devices to operate but sometimes they can leave you unsure of whether they are doing anything at all after you have turned them on.
If you find yourself wondering if an air purifier in your home is working, there are several things you can do to check.
To determine if an air purifier is working, you can either conduct physical examinations of your device or an indoor air quality test.
Physical examinations vary across different types of air purifiers while the same types of air quality tests can be applied across all devices.
We found with regards to physical examinations, that you can either physically inspect your device or alternatively run some manual air quality tests in the room where your device is placed.
As for air quality tests, you can either use electronic and digital tests or chemical air quality test kits.
The physical checks you can do to tell whether your air purifier is working will vary depending on whether you have a filterless or filter air purifier.
The physical tests then vary even further between the different types of filterless purifiers you will find.
For instance, if you have an ionic air purifier, under normal operation your air purifier collects fluff and dust on its metal rods that produce ions to clean the air.
So to check if this device is working, every week you will have to check whether it has accumulated dust on its ionizing rods. If there is no fluff or dust then your device is not working.
Some ionizers also have some type of pollutant collector compartment. You normally find pollutants collected in this part of the device every week.
However, if the device has been running for a week and you find nothing, then you know it's not working.
The other type of filterless purifier is a photocatalytic oxidation.
It is harder to physically examine if this type of air purifier is working as it does not collect any pollutants but it rather burns and destroys air contaminants that are exposed to its reaction chamber and turns them in carbon dioxide and water vapor.
Your best bet in physically examining whether a P.C.O air purifier is working is to check its airflow.
If you find that no air is being released out of your device then there must be a problem somewhere.
You can simply check airflow by putting the back of your palm or your face where your device lets air come out and feeling if there is a breeze.
For all types of air purifiers that use fans, by far the craziest physical test I have seen to check if they are working is the fart test.
Basically, you fart into the device and watch if it will go into overdrive mode.
The caveat here is that this test only works if your device has multiple operating speeds and it can automatically change between the different speed settings based on your home's changing air quality.
If your device has an air sensor and does not detect your farts, either you fart fresh air or there might be a problem with your device.
That said I would suggest doing other tests before concluding on the fart test.
Now for the details on air quality tests, we won’t touch on these in this video as there are so many of them.
I lost it at the recommended test 2:26. 🤣
🤣🤣🤣 the fart test!!!! Bwahahahaha
2:20 I lol'd
Damn I fart fresh air. I got it checked
They should add something in the purifiers to zap viruses
Some air purifiers actually have that
Literally the only option you are giving is a fart test....crap video (pun intended but statement still stands)
With the fart test you can obviously use any other odors. You can spray perfume, cook a nice curry and see if your air purifier can reasonably deal with the odor. A little humor Candy