AtmoTube Pro portable air quality monitor review
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- Tick.tack
- AZd
- 31 May 2022
out of date news price gone up more then 2 times . There is better and chiper devices on the market now.
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- svegress
- i2X
- 12 Jan 2020
Australia is burning. We Australians are use exercising in a clean outdoors. It has been a shock to have that taken away by the smoke of hundreds of fires. Worse, our denialist Government refuses to see the supercharging of the normal bushfire seasons with hot dry conditions bought on by Climate Change is the root cause and the problem would just go away. They ignored the scientists; no preparation has been done. Now we track the AQI, we take daily precautions, we restrict our outdoor living and wearing masks as they do in Indian and Chinese cities. We retreat to the safer indoors and turn on air purifiers.
In such a environment, having a portable personal monitor is not just a defensive measure as the article suggests; it can be a key tool in getting better air in public places & offices. For example while we have plenty of air conditioned public indoor centres like gyms, theatres, shopping malls and libraries there has been no standards required for air quality. Until this season we just didn't need them. Our health authorities are playing catch-up as the respiratory cases start to climb. As individuals we can, granted we have the tools, report problems or the virtues of public areas well before official testing could be done. No business is going to happy if customers find and publicize that a shop's air is dangerous to their health.
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- Anonymous
- mcB
- 26 Jul 2019
Reall good honest review, thank you and good luck what ever you do :)
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- Anonymous
- SHi
- 25 Jul 2019
Reall good honest review, thank you and good luck what ever you do :)
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- Anonymous
- mcB
- 24 Jul 2019
Reall good honest review, thank you and good luck what ever you do :)
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- Anonymous
- n3A
- 15 Apr 2019
It would have been really interesting to see a comparison between this standalone product and the CAT S61.
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- Anonymous
- 0Bh
- 14 Apr 2019
Much better idea is to save $130 and buy a nice phone
with barometer ! For clean air use tramways and
railways = nothing to measure !
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- pWD
- 14 Apr 2019
This is a _useless_ review.
As long as you do NOT measure VOC PM10, PM1 or PM2.5 against a known, calibrated and accurate measurement tool, you have NO idea how this device performs, or whether it is just pulling things out of thin air (pun intended).
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- nin
- 14 Apr 2019
Pollution is not the only problem, if amount of oxygen goes down to 15% in cities or in room. It also doesn't help if there is no alternative path for you. Like try to not breathe the exhausted air from ICE cars, or air smokers breathe out after a cigarette in public transport.
Good though to make you aware of what you breathe, if your nose is already killed or without idea what a fresh air taste like.
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- Chavis
- 3Sw
- 14 Apr 2019
Akinaro, 14 Apr 2019Go outside.
Breath.
Look around.
You will get idea of ai... moreIn my experience, you can feel the effects of breathing in polluted air with high Particle Matter content only after you've been exposed to it for an hour or more. By the time you feel the first symptoms, you've already inhaled enough stuff to give you trouble for a few hours or a day and that's even if you are not particularly sensitive.
Hence the importance of prevention.
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- Chavis
- 3Sw
- 14 Apr 2019
I am not an expert, but I enjoy witnessing expert-level discussions. Here's what the manufacturer claims:
"PM sensor measurement principle is based on laser scattering and makes use of innovative contamination resistance technology. This technology, together with high-quality and long-lasting components, enables accurate measurements from its first operation and throughout its lifetime of more than eight years.
The functionality of our tVOC sensor is based on the conductivity-change of the gas-sensitive MOX semi-conductor layers at gas exposure, which can be measured and analysed. In order to provide accurate readings, the sensor gets calibrated on the production in clean air and gases mix.
Since gases act differently at different temperatures / humidity levels, we utilize our humidity & temperature sensor for compensation for tVOC measurements."
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- SH3
- 14 Apr 2019
Well nicely said, interesting sotry but one fact shocked me.
Going out only 2 times with dog its a tyrrany and slavery.
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- scooter
- 0vE
- 14 Apr 2019
Internal gas sensors will have limited lifetime. Accuracy will decrease over time if there is not any calibration methods and calibration gas available. 130$ product should have some options to extend its lifetime and keep accuracy within nominal levels, at least exchangeable sensors.
I work on board a chemical tanker and we have to calibrate our portable gas detectors pretty much frequently and sometimes even before every use. They are of course much more expensive but all of them state from 1 to 5 years of sensor lifetime depending on their type and various gasses measured.