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This thing? https://www.amazon.com/Lasko-Portable-Purifier-Machine-Ergonomic/dp/B0B146896K/ https://www.amazon.com/Lasko-Portable-Purifier-Machine-Ergon... Wi
by amluto 3y ago
This thing?
https://www.amazon.com/Lasko-Portable-Purifier-Machine-Ergonomic/dp/B0B146896K/ https://www.amazon.com/Lasko-Portable-Purifier-Machine-Ergon...
With a MERV10 filter? Advertised as removing smoke?
Here is some actual MERV data:
https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/what-merv-rating https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/what-merv-rating
MERV 10 is not guaranteed to remove sub-micron particles at all. You need at least MERV 11 for that. [0] Having personally tested some filters in wildfire smoke with a little handheld particle counter, I believe in actual specs. If there isn’t an actual spec referencing a defined standard, then it does not matter how many platitudes about smoke are given — the device is unlikely to work.
[0] And you probably want MERV 13-16 to get to the air purifier sweet spot where flow times removal rate is large and where cost is reasonable. But if you’re going to err, err in the direction of HEPA so that particles actually get removed.
- woleium 3y agomost filters remove large and small particles. its the mid size that the good filters get.
- amluto 3y agoHmm, I recall an EPA chart showing expected performance of different MERV classes versus particle size that had the lower classes staying at zero for very small particles, but I’m not seeing it right now. But I found this — start at page 71. https://ordspub.epa.gov/ords/eims/eimscomm.getfile?p_download_id=499474 https://ordspub.epa.gov/ords/eims/eimscomm.getfile?p_downloa... You do want the higher MERV classes to get decent performance.
- woleium 3y agothis linked article has a bunch of info https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812259