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  Cannot turn off the glowing bright light
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2018
  I thought this was good choice: decent technical specs, looks sleek and modern, not too big. Within minutes after powering on, I realized there was a huge design oversight. You cannot turn off that bright air quality indicator light. If you’re thinking it’s a smallish “power on” type LED you’re wrong. It is like a mini light saber was built into the top of this machine. And it glows from red, amber, to blue, like the colors of a police siren which is not the mood I’m going for. The light does turn off in sleep mode but the fan is also in sleep mode and barely moving any air. You cannot turn off the light in the other modes so you will also be subject to its glow. It is mind boggling that thoughtless design still exists in this day and age. I was just reminded that I own another Honeywell purifier from a few years ago. That one turns off automatically after 12 hours. Apparently that is a feature. Honeywell is now on my blacklist as they seem to have systemically bad design. I was surprised no one else thinks the light is a problem but upon closer inspection, I see that 26 out of 30 reviews were by people who received the product for free! Furthermore I purchased the product for 220 after a 41% discount from the manufacturers suggest price. I suspect that the manufacturer price is artificially high to give the impression you’re getting a discount on a badly designed product. Back to amazon it goes.

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  Honeywell Air Purifier
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2018
  Being an Asthma sufferer I decided to buy an air purifier to see if it would do me any good even though it was expensive. Having run it for about a month it does seem to alleviate the symptoms by filtering out most of the allergens in the air in the high allergen season. It also has a setting for capturing germs in the cold and flu season. So all in all it seems to have been money well spent and I can highly recommend its purchase.

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  Excellent. Almost.
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 December 2019
  Its a great product, I have been using this for past 2 months and the air quality at home has been elevated. My father suffers from asthama and he usually needs his pump during his sleep, however after installing this product in his room he has been saying that he is having peaceful sleep cycle. There is just one con of this product and that is the LED lights that can't be turned off. However the PROs are soo good that it overshadow's the con.

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  Highly recommended
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2019
  This is a well made product which really does do what the maker days

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  ... been running now constantly for several days - very happy with purchase
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2018
  Has been running now constantly for several days - very happy with purchase.Have noticed a significant improvement in air quality in home.

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  good
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2021
  good

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  Brilliant
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2020
  Amazing product, had it for a couple years now and it really does the job.

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  Seems to be reliable
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 April 2020
  The keep the air free of dust mites.it peforms well .

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  Fantastic Piece of Kit
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2017
  , currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -0:00 Playback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions and subtitles off, selectedAudio TrackFullscreenThis is a modal window. I didn't expect to like this as much as I do! When first set-up I let it run and thought it was a bit loud and OTT...that was only because my room obviously was full of stuff that needed purifying coz now it's a quiet as a mouse and works in the background on auto while I see clients.As a former asthma and hay fever sufferer I know how awful it can be to be in places that are full of allergens and this machine removes them once and for all.It even has a Ioniser setting (my fave as I still use an ioniser in my bedroom) ... and means my home-office now feels much more comfortable.Fantastic piece of kit. My only sorrow is these things weren't available when I was younger, I certainly would have benefited from its wonderful ability to purify the air.Anyway, now my clients are benefiting so that's fab.

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  IT'S NOT ALL GOOD NEWS...
  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2017
  UPDATE: Six months after I set up this model, the "Change the carbon filter" warning light came on. I ignored it for for a while, but today - December 11th 2017 - I decided to investigate. (I should have taken photos, but overlooked this - my apologies.) It wasn't by any means seriously blocked, and since I'm not troubled by unwanted odours, its only purpose for me is as a prefilter to keep the HEPA filter clear of larger particles. So I laid it on the floor and ran the Dyson over it a few times to remove the surface accumulations, which it did pretty well (and no doubt some of the interior granular carbon ! But only that large enough to pass through its mesh enclosure). I also took out the HEPA filter, which was in good shape; but I ran the Dyson over that, too, for good measure; and returned both of them to machine. The warning light is actually a timer - it will light after the set periods irrespective of the state of the filters, and is really only a REMINDER to you to check the filters. It's hard to say how long they will last - but I'm pretty certain it will be a lot longer than the manufacturers suggest.I'm using it in my study, so the garish, flashing lights (see below) are not a problem, and it has without doubt reduced the accumulations of dust allergens to good effect, reducing my symptoms accordingly. I have therefore uprated my review, but only from one to three stars, since the problems outlined below in my original review are still relevant for would-be bedroom users... *******************My fellow recipients of free samples have given this machine glowing reviews. There is a need to point out some downsides.I have long had three air purifiers of different makes, one in each of the main rooms of the house, to deal with allergic asthma and rhinitis. I have a fourth in the greenhouse - for mould spores, which, if you're allergic to them also, can cause piercing sinus pains. Any reputable, HEPA filter-equipped machine will do a job; what really matters is whether it maximises its potential, fits your lifestyle and sits comfortably in the chosen domestic environment; and that is solely what this review is about.In my case this model meets none of these criteria, but I can see why other reviewers enthuse over it - all the right bells and whistles, including features other models lack, user-friendly controls, and a "sleep" switch to turn down the illuminations and the noise during the night.The bedroom is undoubtedly the first place most people want an air purifier. But it's usually also the last place anyone wants bright lights and loud noises all night long. Yet the operating light on this machine is the biggest and brightest I have ever seen on any such machine.It's an aggressive, glowing strip, maybe 9mm wide, stretching the whole width of the machine, a totally unnecessary embellishment, and presumably the vanity of a not-so perceptive design department. Not only that, it's even animated ! Pulsating slowly from near off to full on, every two seconds or so. Who wants a large, pulsating, glowing, blue, orange or red light in a bedroom ? Or even in a lounge dimly lit for reading or TV viewing ? One of my other machines has sensible operating and warning lights only 2mm in diameter - and that's all you need (It has other problems, mind you).OK, so turn down the lights with the thoughtful sleep button. Not thoughtful enough, though, because doing so cancels your chosen purification setting, and reduces the turnover so you can barely detect the passage of air through it. What you CAN detect however, is a faint thrumming noise of an irritating frequency which also pulses on and off, being on for two seconds every 2 to 7 seconds; I have another machine that does the same. Although barely audible at the machine itself, it transmits through solid matter - ie, carpet, floor and bed; so arrives quite unattenuated at your ear on the pillow.If you then get up to turn off the machine altogether, you lose the sleeplight, which is replaced by the standby light - bright, bright blue, enough to illuminate my whole bedroom... Why couldn't it be dim like the sleep light ? And the only way to get rid of it is to switch off at the mains. When you switch it on again, it takes ten minutes of flashing and whirring to "read" your environment again.There is another related problem involving the sleep mode. The manual says the machine works best with all doors and windows closed. Quite. But on a warm summer night, this makes a bedroom impossibly hot and stuffy. Your choices then are few. Open a window and compensate by turning the air purifier up to its very noisy max to grab at least some of the pollens (and maybe unwanted aromas) floating in - which, of course, immediately restarts the giant, pulsating operating light which, in the presence of pollens and aromas, will turn itself up from restful blue to bright, throbbing red; couple that with the ramped-up fan and many will find sleep out of the question.OK, so you could keep the windows closed and use a simple room fan to cool you down, but this introduces a new and unwelcome noise, and perhaps disturbs enough bedroom dust (did you remember to dust the fan ?) to send the machine into flashing red overdrive again, and start your symptoms up. And once started, they don't disappear the instant the offending air particles are removed, they can persist for hours following one exposure.Which then brings me to the fixed, upward-discharging air exhaust. It makes sense to be able to site yourself in the flow of purified air. What's the point of an air purifier if the polluted air first has to pass your face on its way to it, allowing you to breathe it in - whilst the clean air gets directed up to the ceiling ?The Fellowes DX95 I use in my bedroom has a directionally adjustable exhaust vent, and on a hot night, you can set it to blow cooling - and purified ! - air over you as you lie in bed. On all except the really hot nights, this is sufficient to make it unnecessary to open windows or use a fan, and even if you do open windows, the clean air is still blowing over you, rather than pollen-laden air coming in from outside on its way to the purifier. This is why I persist with my otherwise irritatingly noisy and bright Fellowes.So, although the intentions were no doubt good, and the specification is seemingly superior, and whilst it will certainly improve your quality of life to a useful degree, it hasn't been intelligently thought through, and might be unsuitable for many - notably light sleepers who like dark, quiet bedrooms, and those who are unduly sensitive to allergens (and we are all different in that respect)...One reviewer complains that the filters cost £100 a year. Air purifier makers seem to have adopted the policies of PC printer-makers as regards consumables, and this seems close to average for any air purifier of this type, although these are superior filters to most I have seen. I guess the filter warning light to be based on time measurement rather than, say, a monitoring of reducing airflow, so in some environments they would last half the time, in others twice as long.Another reviewer remarks that Honeywell is a leading US brand. However, this is not a Honeywell product; it's a Kaz, a rather lesser-known US brand. They simply pay Honeywell to put their name on its products, all made, like this one, in anonymous Chinese factories.Perhaps I could also ask why so many air purifier manufacturers believe that all allergy sufferers live in starkly modern, black and white interiors. This machine, like the Fellowes, is designed to dominate, in most brutal fashion, any other kind of environment it sits in, even leaving aside the aggressive light show.