“Does the job better than I thought it would !! I can breathe easier when I sleep !! Only one draw back though - I have to clean it every other week or so ! It starts making a ticking sound ! Maybe it’s because I am a smoker and collecting plates get dirty really fast !!
Any help in this would be appreciated !!”
“This air purifier is the BEST on yet. I have 3 other Hepa filter units and they will leak dust and have a smell too. But I do love that I don't have to buy extra filters and the smells have gone. The problem I have now is that I have to either keep buying filters for the other units or Throw them away. Well thanks for the clean AIR-- Dog”
“I bought this air purifier for my rental condo. I have been battling with the association and the discomfort of my tenant for months regarding a lingering stale air odor mixed with smoke. My tenant is very happy and he says that there is no odor whatsoever. He's happy and so am I. Thank you.”
“The technology is amazing lasko makes one almost identical that uses only 20 watts of power and is for sale at Costco in Taiwan for less than $300 USD I will get 3 next week. Too bad the best technology for air purification is not more affordable in the US”
“I purchased this device from its IndieGoGo campaign, and now feel comfortable reviewing it after using it for a while. The more money a product costs (compared to its competition), the more time I want to use it before reviewing it. Scroll to the “things I like/things I dislike” section at the bottom if you just want to get to the more important details. Over the last year, I’ve purchased and reviewed about 5 or 6 different air purifiers (some for me, some as gifts for family members), so I’ve done a lot of research about the different kinds available. The Airdog X5 is the one I currently use in my bedroom (where I spend the most time), while using the less expensive purifiers in other rooms in the house. HEPA air filters are the most common, but they only capture 99.97% of particles down to 0.3µm, while the Airdog X5 can capture 99.99% of particles down to 0.0146µm (viruses are double that size, so germs don’t stand a chance with the Airdog). Another difference is that HEPA only “stores” what it captures, so if you have mold in the room, the HEPA filter will capture it and the mold will continue to grow in the filter. Air purifiers that use ionic fields (like the Airdog X5, the Sharper Image Ionic Comfort, the Envion Ionic Pro Turbo, the Nectar HexaDuo, etc…) kill all of the germs/viruses that pass through the field, and then capture it in washable collection plates. So, you don’t have to purchase new filters like with HEPA, and you are killing germs and viruses in your room (as well as collecting dust and other particles), making the air extremely clean. The way that this works is that it creates a positive electrical charge inside the device, which kills the airborne pathogens that pass through it (bacteria, viruses, mold, pollen, allergens, etc… – you get the idea) and then uses a negatively charged metallic filter to cause everything that was just zapped with the positive charge to be attracted to it and stick to it. Finally, the ions are neutralized and only clean air exits the machine. This machine is very expensive, but you are getting a lot for your money. The air purifiers that use ionic fields that I mentioned earlier in my review only use either one or two (depending on which purifier) metal wires to generate a germ killing ionic field inside the device. The Airdog X5 uses 17 wires to generate the ionic field, so nothing is getting through this filter alive. Another benefit to this is that no particles will blow out of the device (since the ionic field is so strong and the metallic plates are so dense). I confirmed this with a particle counter that I put on top of the device to check the particles coming out of the top of the fan. Speaking of particle counter, the device comes with one on the back of it (the numbers you see on the front of the device in pictures). There is also an LED that will change colors (along with the numbers on the front), depending on the air quality in your room. The readings on my device are usually in the 5-10 range. This is easily achievable if you keep your door and windows closed, as the Airdog will be able to clean the air in the room very easily if there isn’t constant outside airflow coming into the room. If you keep your doors and windows open (which really defeats the purpose of using an air purifier, but that’s neither here nor there), you may see a small bump to about 20. Anything less than 50 is considered “good.” I notice the numbers jump up when I am cooking in another room and open the door to the room containing the Airdog, even for a few seconds. By default, I usually like to keep the device in Sleep mode, which means all of the LEDs are off (except for one very tiny LED that is lightly illuminated to show that the device is in sleep mode and not “off”), and the fan operates in near silent mode, since I like having a quiet room. However, if I always run the device in turbo mode an hour before I go to sleep (to thoroughly clean the air), and whenever I am cooking or planning to spend some time in the bedroom. It’s great to thoroughly freshen up the air before putting the device in a more “quiet” mode, without LEDs distracting you. As for the modes, the default is an automatic mode, which means it will use its own particle sensor to determine the fan speed. If you cycle through the options, you can move it from auto and then go to low, medium, high, turbo, and then sleep mode. There is also a “pre-filter” to filter out the larger particles (dust and pet hair) in the air to preserve the time it takes to make the metallic filters fill up with even smaller debris. When you purchase the device, it comes with a remote that lets you reset the “clean filter” timer, enable the child lock, pair to WiFi, etc. As others have mentioned, pairing the device to WiFi and using the app can be a pain, and I don’t even care to try, as long as the included remote works. At some point, the makers of Airdog released a new firmware to the product th...”
