PurOxygen P500 Air Purifier review

The P500 has a utilitarian look, with a white plastic rectangular physique, silver trim and a black grille. It stands on the ground, 51cm tall by 33cm lengthy and 17cm large, with a white 180cm lengthy cable sprouting out of its base.

With handles both facet of the silver trim, and a weight of solely 4.5kg, you may transfer it round simply. It comes with a small distant management that matches within the palm of your hand.   

However you might be forgiven for pondering that this air air purifier is nothing a lot … till you see the filter.

All in regards to the filter

PurOxygen says that the P500 removes 99.98% of airborne contaminants, corresponding to pet dander, mould, mud, viruses and micro organism. It tackles smoke, controls odours, and helps towards respiratory illnesses. When you see the filter, you perceive why.

It’s thick.

3.5cm thick to be exact, and it rattles once you shake it. Plus, at 37 by 30cm, it’s the width of a A3 sheet of paper and solely 7cm shorter.

There’s 4 layers to it. The prefilter is designed to lure particles one micron in dimension and bigger, and identifies and filters out mud, hair, and dander, enhancing the ability of the next HEPA filter layer.

The HEPA HII filter catches particles above 0.3 microns in dimension and 95% to 99% of particles beneath 0.3 microns.

Subsequent, there’s an activated carbon layer, which, with the HEPA filter, removes virtually all airborne pollution, corresponding to pet odours, ornament air pollution or smoke smells.

And the ultimate layer is chilly catalyst filtration, which is designed to regulate air pollution below regular residing situations. PurOxygen states that this layer will decompose dangerous gases (also referred to as risky natural compounds or VOCs), corresponding to formaldehyde, smoke smells and ornament fumes.          

And that’s not all. The air air purifier additionally has a destructive ion generator, which filters mud, pollen, pet dander, mould spores and different potential allergens from the air.

Then there’s a UV mild sanitiser, which is used to kill germs, allergens, micro organism, mould, pollen and viruses. PurOxygen says this helps to enhance the air high quality by eradicating frequent causes of sickness and allergic reactions and is very beneficial to be used by these with a compromised immune system, bronchial asthma or allergic reactions.

Arrange

Establishing the P500 is easy. Within the field is the air purifier unit, a filter, a consumer information, an insert card, and a distant management. Unwrap all the pieces, take away the filter plastic, put the filter within the air purifier with the blue facet going through outwards, shut the filter cowl, plug the equipment in and press energy on both the unit or the distant management.

Management

There are two strategies of controlling the air air purifier: the round management panel on the unit and the distant management.

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The panel on the unit has 4 buttons: one to energy on and off, one to vary the pace of the fan or change it to automated, one to activate the sleep mode, and one to set a timer between one and twelve hours to show off the machine.

By urgent two button mixtures, you may show the room temperature, flip the kid lock on and off, flip the UV filter on and off, or reset the filter’s life administration perform.

The distant provides you an identical controls, with the addition of with the ability to flip the ioniser on and off by the perform button.   

Efficiency

The air air purifier performs three tones once you flip it on, which is a pleasant contact, and it begins routinely.

There’s a barely plasticky scent at first, however that disappears rapidly.

There are three pace modes. Pace 1 works at 350rpm and generates roughly the identical sound as a desktop pc. Pace 2 works at 550rpm and is equal to the sound of a washer or dishwasher. Pace 3 is 800rpm and roughly the identical sound quantity as a home hairdryer.  

On the management panel, there’s a lightweight indicator circle and an air high quality indicator that reveals details about particulate matter within the air. The sunshine shows the air high quality by way of a color spectrum, so inexperienced is great, blue is nice, yellow is medium, and purple is poor.

The air high quality indicator counts all the way down to cleaner air because the air purifier is working; the indicator goes from 0 to 500, with something beneath 50 good.

It was fairly tough to check the efficiency of the air air purifier as atmospheric situations had been so good, however we experimented with ornament fumes.

We put the air purifier in a room with a freshly painted ceiling. It initially registered the air high quality as blue with a determine of 84, and it solely took six minutes of air purifier operation on pace 2 to decrease this to inexperienced with a determine of 8. 

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We additionally tried burnt toast, wafting it by the air purifier. The air high quality registered as purple, then plummeted dramatically all the way down to inexperienced after just a few seconds.        

The sleep mode turns off the UV mild and runs the equipment at a low pace, which when you like white noise when you are sleeping, could also be a contact too quiet for you.

The air purifier doesn’t have sensible options. However though you may’t function it out of your sensible cellphone, the distant management could also be extra handy for some.

PurOxygen says you must clear the filter each two months, both by exposing it to daylight for one to 3 hours or by vacuuming it.   

There are a few issues to notice although. You’ll be able to’t use the air purifier in a room with a temperature beneath freezing, or above 40°C, so do double-check on a freakishly sizzling day.   

Protection

PurOxygen states that the P500 will take care of areas from 150-550ft², so 14m² to 51m², and it’ll clear as much as 550ft² each hours, as much as 1650 ft² in three hours.

Price

The P500 is a 45W equipment. That is roughly common for an equipment of this sort; the ability consumption is roughly much like a small laptop computer or Sky field. 

You’ll additionally must consider the price of substitute filters, which you should buy from Amazon for $39.97. PurOxygen doesn’t given an estimate of how lengthy a filter ought to final because it’ll rely in your air high quality.

Worth and availability

That is PurOxygen’s solely air air purifier. It’s accessible within the US from quite a lot of retailers, together with Sears and Treblab, however one of the best present value we will discover is from Amazon, the place it’s $149.97.

It’s solely accessible in a restricted capability within the UK. Sure, you should buy it from Amazon, nevertheless it’s extraordinarily costly and we wouldn’t suggest it at its present value of £387.77.  

Verdict

With the P500, you might be compromising on aesthetics for an efficient six-stage filtration course of that’ll work on particle matter and gases. It’s possible you’ll be taking a look at a white plastic unit with a standard consumption vent, however you might be getting an ioniser and a chilly catalyst filtration layer, and a HEPA II high quality filter.

We predict this commerce off is value it. If you would like an efficient air air purifier that does that little bit further for an affordable value level, the P500 is certainly value a glance.