Thread by @om_rxd

🧵I've tested 2 of the most budget friendly WiFi air purifiers on the market.
Criteria:
Under £100, low power consumption, good filter availability, acceptable noise levels, WiFi/app automation/scheduling functions.
Ideally the filters should be genuine, and under £40
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The silver medal winner - still a very comprehensive option:
Midea 6000 Series SmartAir KJ350G-S1
(£89) (or Smart Air Pure Control 18877 )
This is a clone of the highly acclaimed Taotronics AP003 but with WiFi

Test data on the photo, and in addition:
//2 amazon.co.uk/Midea-SmartAir…

Certifications: CE, UKCA, TÜV SÜD
Customer service: very responsive.
Filters: H13 grade. Widely available around £35 (CON: mostly aftermarket ones for the Taotronics AP003, HEPA grade might be questionable). Has plenty of honeycomb style activated carbon.
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Ozone: I haven't opened it up but I have no reason to assume it has an ionizer.
CONS:
App: Cumbersome setup (only 2.4G WiFi support) and sluggish use.
Manual adjustment is slow, it appears offline initially. Scheduling works fine.
Aftermarket filter quality: anyone's guess
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@ThisHouseFresh did a thorough review on the original (non-WiFI) Taotronics model by the way

And the winner:
Freshdew AP304 (£89 with voucher on Amz)

A functionally identical clone of Morento HY4866-WF (retailing for £200).

//5 housefresh.com/taotronics-ap0…
amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0C…

And on top of the data:
Certifications: RoHS, ETL, CARB
Ozone: I opened it up partially: no signs of a hidden ionizer or if it has one it meets CARB ozone standards.
Filters: H13 grade. Genuine Morento HY4866 filters are available at £30 - £36 (a pair) and
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Amazon is full of aftermarket ones. The genuine ones have QR validation, 15g more carbon + detachable prefilter.
APP: The one in the manual wasn't compatible with my Android version - I grabbed the first smart home app and it works. Connecting was much easier than Midea's
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and its hardware also supports more connection options. Manual control is very responsive and scheduling (or setting up scenes) is largely fine too.
I have to work out a few final glitches, having 2 ideantical purifiers may cause some slight bugs.
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Customer service:
Extremely responsive and helpful.
I.e.: I've pointed out that one of the photos are misleading (it depicted a remote control) and they uploaded a new photo within a hour and offered a free HY4866 filter (sent out from New Jersey lol)
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CONS?
Suboptimal quality control?
The 1st device was DOA (touch buttons defunct).
I emailed, they sent a new one in 2 days.
I disassembled the first one, elongated the capacitive sensor springs, still no joy but then I've moved a strong magnet over them, now good as new. //END

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