That $200 air purifier I bought for my warehouse is the best money I ever spent

I work in a dusty warehouse and my sinuses were a mess for months. I kept buying cheap box fans with furnace filters taped to them and they barely helped. Finally dropped $200 on a real HEPA air purifier with a carbon pre-filter. Set it up near my workstation about 3 weeks ago. I can breathe so much better now and I'm not waking up with a scratchy throat every morning. The filters are supposed to last 6 months so I think it'll pay for itself in my quality of life. Has anyone else coughed up for one of these and felt it was worth it?

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susanb3426d ago

Yeah but are you running it all day or just when you're at your workstation? I've been wondering if leaving it on 24/7 really makes that much of a difference or if it's just wasting electricity.

kim.jake26d ago

Leave it on 24/7. Honestly the startup surge when you boot it up from cold uses MORE power than just letting it idle. I used a kill-a-watt meter in my workshop and found my gaming rig pulls maybe 80 watts at idle overnight versus a 500 watt spike for the first 5 minutes of starting up plus the heat stress on components. If you're in and out of your workstation through the day it's way better for the electric bill and the hardware to just let it sleep or stay on.

oliverhernandez26d ago

Question if it's really worth worrying about that much honestly. Most people aren't running a gaming rig with a kill-a-watt meter in their workshop, you're probably fine just shutting it down when you're done for the day.