LEVOIT Air Purifiers For Large Room

***Edit – Have upgraded to 4 stars as the third unit has been working very well with the power adapter.***

I haven’t tried sleep mode on this, and it’s a pretty noisy machine compared to another filter that I have of around the same size.

I am on my 3rd machine now as the first two suddenly started smelling like they were burning and stopped working. I was a little surprised when it arrived with an American plug, but it came with a converter so I thought nothing of it. Later, when the replacement unit had gone the way of the first in only 2 days of light use, I read the specifications and saw that it’s not made to work on the UK 240v circuit. It’s only rated for 110v, so no wonder they kept burning out, I’m only glad they didn’t start a fire!
Thankfully the seller was very god and even sent me a power converter – 240v to 110v – to get the unit working. But please be aware if you buy this unit that it’s not safe for use in the Uk with just a plug adapter.
So 3 stars and a warning. But I’ll try the new unit with the converter and hopefully can say lovely things about it, it did seem to work nicely the first time before it burned out. I bought it to keep me safer from catching covid at home or in the office with my 2 coworkers.

Quiet, and moves air well. The air is noticeably less dusty, and it handled forest fire smoke well too.

We moved into an incredibly dusty townhouse, I have terrible allergies, and we discovered our neighbors are chain smokers. We now have 3 Levoit air purifiers in our home: Vital 100 (non-smart version), Core Mini and Vital 200S.

I initially bought the Vital 100 and put it in our bedroom because I have terrible allergies. It collected a ton of dust and helped a lot with the allergies. I thought I didn’t need the smart version but in hindsight the availability of specialty filters and the remote control would be very helpful. It’s relatively quiet although on high it’s too noisy for me to sleep with. I absolutely love that you can turn the all the control lights off. We tried using this for the cigarette smell but it wasn’t very effective except when the smell was very light. It did completely abolish cooking smells though. If I could go back in time I would have ordered the 100S instead but this one works fine.

The smoke smell from the neighbors comes into our house through the laundry room which is a very small room. I bought the Core Mini to try to combat it. The Core Mini doesn’t really do much to get rid of smells and was definitely overwhelmed by the smoke so now we move it around the house now when the pollen level is high. It works ok for dust and allergens but the range isn’t great; you need to be right next to it to notice a difference. On low and medium speed it’s barely audible and high is relatively quiet but overall the fan isn’t very powerful. The lights on this one automatically turn off after a few seconds making it bedroom friendly. If I could do it again, I would have skipped this one and bought one of the larger ones sooner.

Lastly, in an attempt to mitigate the smoke coming from next door, we got the big boi Vital 200S with the add on smoke specialty filter. So far it isn’t able to completely remove the smell but it does cut down the severity and will clear it eventually provided the source stops for long enough. It’s amazingly quiet on all 4 speeds and the fan moves a ton of air around. I’m disappointed that the auto mode doesn’t detect the smoke smell but I can use the app to turn it to high speed as soon as I smell it. You don’t have to use the app but it’s really easy to set up and connect. The app allows you to set schedules which is really handy and as I touched on earlier, it works as a remote control. As with the others, you’re able to turn the lights off completely so it’s good for bedrooms. We’ve only had this running a few days but I’m pretty impressed with what it can do.