Reddit mentions of Winix WAC9500 Ultimate Pet True HEPA Air Cleaner with PlasmaWave Technology

As someone that hates dust and has two 55lb hairy dogs, I'll just mention my experience. Note that I have a whole-home HVAC (central AC / heat pump) system.

The whole-whole system has an air filter in the air handler, so it picks up dust as it moves through the system. The issue is that there isn't enough pressure in the system to fully circulate the air from the floor to the returns at the top of the walls.

So while air is circulating, there is not enough pressure to change the direction of the dust particles.

With that said, I bought myself a winix air purifier which I use in my bedroom while I sleep. As I spend a solid 8 hours each day there, it made the most sense to put the purifier in there. I run the purifier on the 'high' setting which 1) has enough power to really move the air in the room and pick up a SIGNIFICANT amount of dust, and 2) provide 'white noise' while I sleep.


tl;dr: Get a properly sized air purifier for the room. They help.

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Unless you have a clean room type setup, I am not sure I see the need for a HEPA filter. I have a rather large unit in my living room that was around 250.00 this is a pretty high end unit. It has a CAD (Clean air delivery) rating of something like 250 square feet. I belive this means it will turn over all the air in that 250 sq ft room 4 times per hour. I have cats, and a parrot, and use it to keep that room from smelling like a zoo. It does WONDERS for the smell, but its not like its filtering out much of anything from the room per se. Cat hair still sticks to the couches, I still have to dust the TV, etc.

Now, if you have a clean room type setup, you are going to want/need a forced air type setup that basically creates a gigantic vaccuum in the room to ensure all particulate matter is collected, but I dont see how you could do this on that small of a budget, this is more of a classic bunny suit/gloves, booties type setup, where you are actively trying to keep any particulates from entering the room first, and then filtering the room to catch anything that may have come in.

ISO standards have classes for cleanrooms, they range from 1-10. (10 being more like where computer chips are fabricated, I want to say for a good juice lab you want a class 6 room, but again, I am not an expert on the subject).

So, what are you trying to filter in your room?

I realize this sounds so trashy, but I have made it my practice to mix juice on my stove top (glass top stove) with the vent fan on high, to suck any fumes/smells up the hood and out of hte house. this seems to be working great for me. What is your setup like? where do you mix? any other things that could help give you better answers?

EDIT : looking at some of your other posts, it looks like you have a better grasp on this than I had thought. how big is your "lab"? if its a standard bedroom sized (under 200 sq ft) and you dont need a commercial unit, look at this: http://www.amazon.com/Winix-WAC9500-Ultimate-PlasmaWave-Technology/dp/B004VGIBZK/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1425328913&sr=8-6&keywords=winix+filter

I keep mine on high setting 24/7. I bump it to Turbo when the room smells at all. Turbo is a bit loud, like having a large fan on in the room, on high, you can barely hear it. I have it in a 14 X 24 room, and it seems to do wonders in there, in a bedroom sized room, I think it could be what you are after.

Tried swapping to a brand new 0.4mm MicroSwiss hardened nozzle, so I know that one was definitely not clogged. Also cleaned out the stock brass 0.4mm and tried that, no luck.

FWIW, the air quality was a great thought. You might be right, but I'm working in a room with fairly low traffic and a Winix WAC9500 running with a fairly new filter, so I'd hope the air quality would be passable.

You might want to invest in an air purifier.

I bought one of these after getting my pup and like it http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004VGIBZK/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/184-5288931-1262457

I also do not let her in my bedroom at all, and having all concrete floors really helps.

I think most dog owners get used to it and don't mind it, similar to smokers, but as a non-dog owner I thought it was awful to walk into other people's homes and it smelled like a dirty wet dog in their home, and I'm a huge animal lover.

But when the dog smells and is not groomed well and easily shedding all over you and you show up to hang out before a night out or something it's kind of gross.

Also not cool to bring home a lady and your whole place and bed is a cesspool of dog hair and pet odor so I try to minimize that personally as much as possible.

My next investment is one of those robot vacuum things since I don't even own a vacuum and hate sweeping mopping.

Why would I spend $500+ on a Rabbit Air when I specifically stated my budget and that square footage was not an issue?

Just bought an open box Winix WAC9500 for $188.