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Turns out indoor air can be surprisingly unhealthy for you and now that we're spending so much time indoors, it's even more important to clean your air. That's why something like the WBM Smart HEPA Air Purifier can be such a smart addition to your home, office or dorm room. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ tries out the WBM Smart purifier and finds it's a good option for a lot of different situations, big or small. The unit features a 3-in-1 composite filter delivering 68m/h CADR (40CFM), 3 speed settings, an LED night light and more.
Watch this review, then check it out at https://amzn.to/2YGSH5b
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You'll have much cleaner air with this air purifier. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is the WBM Smart HEPA air purifier. It's pretty
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nice. One of the things I really like about it is it's really quiet. In its quietest mode it's 25
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decibels, which means you're probably not going to be able to hear it even if you're in a quiet
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house. But if you're in a house where there's noise at night you're not going to hear anything
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It's going to just chug along doing its own thing. Now it has a whole indicator system on the top
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Here's a close-up for you. But the most important button is on and off. So let's turn this on and
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as with many of these devices it turns on and immediately goes to the highest motor or highest
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fan setting and then it drops back down. So this defaults to sleep mode and I have my custom air
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circulation test device. So let's see what this looks like. So here you can get a sense of
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this is the lowest mode and this is the quietest mode. So this is sleep mode
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It's pretty darn quiet. And then I can tap the speed button and that gets me a little faster
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Air is moving a little bit faster. But then you get to the highest mode
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and this thing's pushing out some air as you can see here with my visual indicator, right
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So let's talk about this. Right now at its maximum setting it has what's known as a CADR of 68 meters
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an hour. And what that means is it's a clean air delivery rate. And I actually prefer cubic feet
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per minute CFM and it's 40 CFM. What this means is that this has plenty of power to pull through
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and filter air from even a very large room or you know a house with multiple rooms. But if you have
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an office, if you have a home office, if you have a dorm room, this is perfect. It's a good size and
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it just chugs along. Now one of the other things on the top is it has a filter replacement indicator
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and I have a spare filter. We'll talk about that in just a second. But you should have to replace
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the filter probably every six to eight months. And my personal experience with these is if you
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actually give it some maintenance more frequently, like using your vacuum, you can vacuum your filter
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and that'll help it actually last longer. But every so often you definitely want to replace it
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And I'll talk about the price of replacement filters too in just a minute. Now the other thing
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on the top is there's an LED and let me just show you here. So that gives you a nightlight
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or a bright nightlight or what I like you can turn it off. Now for people that are really
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light phobic at night, note that you cannot turn off the power and the speed lights but they're
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very faint. So I would guess that in a completely pitch dark room because of this angle you wouldn't
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even see it. But if you had it on the floor and you were laying right next to it looking down
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you might see a little blue glow. I know some people really want their rooms to be completely
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dark. All right the other button you have there is a lock button. If you don't want little hands
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changing settings you can do that. So three speed settings, LED nightlight you can turn into
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dim or bright or off completely and this will remove 99% of airborne particulates and bacteria
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So that's pretty nice and the way it works is it's a three stage filter. So there is the, let me just
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catch my notes here, I guess I didn't write that. So there actually there's a pre-filter
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there's the actual HEPA filter and there's an activated carbon filter. So you know the air just
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sort of goes through here and comes out here and all the particulate matter is caught in the filter
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So you're thinking where is that filter? Well let's flip it upside down and have a look
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So one of the things that's always really challenging with these is where is stuff right
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Where is everything hidden? And it turns out the bottom actually unscrews, let me get it in the right
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direction, well maybe it goes this way, no one of these ways, there we go. It unscrews and it takes
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obviously a little bit of force and then you lift it off and then here's our filter. So this filter
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will last six to eight months, possibly a year. All you have to do is put it in there, put the
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cap on it, let's see we just need to get it in the right position and then turn it till it clicks
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and we're ready to go. That's all it takes, easy enough. It does require being plugged in, you can
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see it has a reasonably long cord, it's not a super long cord but I think that'll work fine for you
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That's certainly enough if you get an extension cord as I have. And so then the filters, now
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actually let me give you the dimensions first. So this is 12.8 inches tall and it is 7.2 inches
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across, obviously it's circular so that's the same in any direction, you know how circles work right
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And it's five pounds so it's pretty light, it's not super light but I'm pretty sure that even
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grandma could pick it up and move it around if grandma needs to put it into a different room
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And these replacement air filters, this is the AR04F in case you need to know that
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are 39 bucks a unit on amazon.com so it's not a bad price to pay 40 bucks approximately a year
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to have really good clean air, especially nowadays you want to just get your air as clean as possible
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so that your lungs have to do the least amount of work, that's just good thinking right? So how much
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does this cost? Well hang on before we get there I'm going to ask if you could subscribe to my
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channel, I really appreciate when you subscribe, it's just a click or a tap on that little red
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button on the lower right and we're connected. Great, all right this is the WBM Smart HEPA
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air purifier and it's $81.35 but when I looked on Amazon it's down to $65.99 which is a pretty
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sweet deal and here's what's funny is it's $65.99 for the white version but if you want the black
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version of this beautiful air purifier that's $99.99 so is it worth 34 bucks for you to get
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the other color? That's up to you, me I don't really care I'm going to put this behind my bed
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and let it clean the air in my bedroom because I don't want any garbage in my air and there's
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particulate matter everywhere so make your indoor air healthier and cleaner than your outdoor air
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with something like this. There are lots of air purifiers out there, get one it'll make you feel
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better, it's better if you have allergies, it's better if you like are reacting to dander or
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something, all of that's a win with one of these. So check it out, I'm going to turn it back on
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let's get it back to top speed, let's get that LED on bright, isn't that cheery, look at that bright
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color and with that I'm going to breathe that fresh air, breathe that fresh air and catch you in my next video
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