Levoit Core P350 Review: Good for pets

Verdict

Levoit’s Core P350 does a superb job of eradicating smoke and different contaminants from small and medium-sized rooms. Whereas its controls are fundamental – and it misses out on good options and air high quality detection – its HEPA and carbon filter is good for pet homeowners seeking to take away odours, and filter out allergens, particulates and micro organism from the house. Apart from a thicker carbon layer within the filter, nonetheless, there’s little distinction between this and the Levoit Core 300 – should you’ve received a type of, you may get related efficiency by becoming the P350’s pet-specific filter.

Introduction

The Levoit Core P350 is a small to mid-sized air air purifier aimed particularly at households with pets. It’s bodily nearly the identical because the Core 300 and its good spinoff the Levoit Core 300S, however it comes with a pet-specific filter.

This goals to entice extra hair and allergens than the usual one and has a thicker carbon layer. This makes use of a patented ‘ARC’ components, which Levoit says actively breaks down pollution somewhat than simply absorbing them.

The P350 is compact and fairly good, constructed from a gray plastic somewhat than the same old white. There’s not a lot setting as much as do – you simply unscrew its base, take away the delivery bag from the filter and also you’re able to go.

Design and options

• Compact, agreeable design
• Diffuse air output
• Timer, night time, and pet lock modes

This air air purifier is aimed toward smaller and medium-sized rooms, significantly these akin to a bed room the place a pet would possibly spend lots of time.

It’s fairly compact, measuring solely 22cm throughout and 36cm excessive, but it packs a fairly big filter that takes up about half the air purifier’s top. Levoit states a clear air supply price (CADR) of 187 cubic metres per hour (m3/h), which implies it would clear the air in a typical bed room about 3-4 instances an hour. That’s rather less than the Core 300S, which has a 240m3/h CADR.

Regardless of a fairly robust fan, filtered air emerges in a diffuse sample from the rakes on the high. Like most different air purifiers, this isn’t an effective way to fire up a breeze you possibly can really feel.

The Levoit Core P350 doesn’t have any air high quality detection, so it could’t average its velocity in response to particulates, risky natural compounds or another contaminant. Based mostly on my expertise, velocity one would possibly suffice more often than not, with greater speeds helpful should you’re cooking, throughout hayfever season, or within the presence of different pollution.

There are not any good options right here, only a complete contact management panel within the centre of the air output. This gives three fan speeds plus an evening mode that’s actually quiet sufficient to have operating within the background whilst you sleep. You’ll be able to set an off timer in two-hour increments as much as 12 hours, flip the standing lights on and off, and even have interaction a ‘Pet Lock’, lest it’s best to personal a very dexterous animal. There’s additionally a light-weight to warn you when the filter wants changing.

This air purifier comes with a pet-specific, three-stage air filter. Levoit says that is optimised to filter out pet fur, dander and particles. The woven high layer actually seems to be to be efficient for bigger contaminants, rapidly selecting up high quality hairs from our cat that had made it via the consumption vent. The subsequent stage is a HEPA 13 filter, designed to take away 99.97% of particles all the way down to 0.3 micrometres – that features most pet allergens, micro organism, mould spores and pollen.

It’s the ultimate, carbon stage that’s most totally different to the usual Core collection filters. Levoit says there’s 90 grams of carbon right here, in comparison with 40g in the usual filter. That is ‘modified carbon’, which chemically reacts with alkaline gases such because the ammonia emitted from pet urine, neutralising somewhat than absorbing it. It must also be efficient at eradicating fuel contaminants akin to risky natural compounds (VOCs).

This specialised filter makes the P350 effectively suited to pet homeowners, however it’s price mentioning that the majority air purifiers with a HEPA 13 and carbon filter will nonetheless be some assist in decreasing pet smells and allergens. You may as well purchase substitute filters individually, so you can all the time match the pet-specific filter to an current Core 300 or Core 300s. On the time of writing, the pet filter was about £5 greater than an ordinary one.

Efficiency

I check each air air purifier by shutting it in a small room with a burning smoke pellet. These rapidly fill the room with dense white smoke, wealthy in particulate matter, and we time how lengthy it takes for the air purifier to get the air high quality again all the way down to protected ranges. This check sends my PM2.5 air monitor (which detects particles round 2.5 micrometres in dimension) actually off the dimensions, and it could take a number of minutes for it to fall again beneath its 999 micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m³) most.

In my first check, the Core P350 didn’t appear to enhance the air high quality in any respect, even after 20 minutes. On examination, I realised that I’d changed the filter the wrong way up after eradicating it from its transit bag. It’s a disgrace that is potential, because it nearly utterly blocks the fan’s air consumption, rendering the air purifier briefly ineffective.

With the filter fitted correctly, the P350 carried out effectively sufficient, getting the air high quality from unhealthy to average (<100μg/m³) in 11 minutes. In 12 minutes the air had fallen into the nice (<50μg/m³) vary. That’s a slight enchancment on the instances the Core 300S recorded on this check, however I’ve examined bigger purifiers that may do it in half the time.

It’s exhausting to develop a equally scientific check for odour elimination, however I positioned the Core P350 subsequent to my cat’s litter tray, and it actually appeared to assist cut back the scent from contemporary visits.

My sound measurements backed up my sense that this can be a quiet air purifier, significantly on the night time setting the place I recorded simply 30.7dB from one metre away. Even at full chat, this solely elevated to 48.3dB – not even sufficient to make you increase your voice.

I used to be a bit stunned after I related the P350 to an vitality meter. Whereas the Core 300S had proved very environment friendly, utilizing between 2-19 watts (W) relying on the fan velocity, the P350 was rather less so. In night time mode it consumed 18W, rising to 39W at full velocity. That’s nonetheless not an enormous quantity of energy, however at a typical electrical energy value of 30p per kilowatt hour, it might value you about £30 extra annually to run it flat out for 12 hours a day, in comparison with the Core 300S.

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