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You simply cannot put enough activated carbon in a little foam thing that goes in front of a filter to do anything useful. The real activated carbon filters ha
by Aurornis 2mo ago
You simply cannot put enough activated carbon in a little foam thing that goes in front of a filter to do anything useful.
The real activated carbon filters have 10s of pounds of carbon. The little black foam thing that comes with those 2-in-1 carbon filters is useless.
- gambiting 2mo agoAnd manufacturers do a sneaky swap too, my Coway 150 which is a great air filter by the way, came with a nice thick grid of hexagonal cells each filled with carbon granules - that insert alone weighs like half a kg. I ordered official filter and carbon filter replacements off their website ....got a thin carbon "foam" that weighs maybe 50g instead.
- ericd 2mo agoIf anyone wants to get serious about VOC filtering, these things have 7 pounds of carbon in them, they’re made for filtering the air of weed grow ops: https://terra-bloom.com/collections/carbon-filters https://terra-bloom.com/collections/carbon-filters