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Honeywell Air Cleaners: The 50250 Reviewed
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- Priced between $150 & $200 online
- Price of LifeTime Filter pak between $45 & $60 online
- Price of three month carbon filter Between $15 & $20
- 250 Clean Air Delivery Rate & Rated at 350 sq feet
The 50250 is the most powerful of all Honeywell air cleaners. It's one of a total of four in their 50000 series that also includes the 50100, 50150 and the 50200. Now to start off with, this powerful workhorse registers a clean air delivery rate of 250 and it's rated for 350 sq feet.
Even so, it's important to understand that there is no uniform standard for rating square footage capacity of air cleaners. You see it's basically ran on an honor system, where each maker assigns a number that it feels is adequate after testing. What this means then is that customer reviews definitely have to be taken into account.
What Do Previous Customers Think?
Well it just so happens that the user opinion average at the highly respected consumer product review site opinions.com is 4.5 stars, with 5 being the maximum. Another quick check at amazon.com shows their average coming in at 4 stars, out of a possible 5. So people who have bought and are using this machine like it.
The one thing that really jumped out at me when I first laid eyes on this workhorse of an air cleaner was the size of its air filter. It is huge! You see it's not flat like most machines out there. Instead this one is round and it wraps completely around the unit. It really does cover a lot of area. There are bulldozers with smaller air filters!
Pay close attention though because only the newer 50250N model Honeywell air cleaners now come with their newer upgraded LifeTime hepa filter. It does the same job as their older filter does of removing 99.97 of pollutants down to .3 microns. It's just made to last longer.
Understand that LifeTime is a trade name and should not be taken to mean that it's a permanent filter even though it's marketed as such. Lots companies market permanent filters but personally I thing that they're a sham. You see I've vacuumed clean enough air cleaner filters over the course of my life and I can tell you than even the best of them eventually get worn out and need replacing.
Accessing its Air Filters is Just Too Easy
When it does come time to clean this filter you'll love the way that this sturdy machine comes apart and goes back together again. A big thick plastic nut that's located on the top of the machine has to be unscrewed by hand and that's it. The hood lifts off and and plunks right back on when you're done. Now make sure to remember to replace the universal carbon filter every 3 months.
I Just love the way that they've redesigned the new stacking filter system for Honeywell air cleaners. It's a one size fits all round filter and how many stack on, is dependent on the machine that you buy. The 50250 happens to be their largest machine, so it takes three but other smaller Honeywell machines use one or two.
What About Noise?
Now as far as noise is concerned, this machine is rated at 35 decibels on low, 45 on medium and 57 on its high setting. To me this machine seems a bit louder then I would prefer but I suppose it's a fair tradeoff, considering the workload it handles. It is definitely too noisy for my bedroom at night when I'm sleeping though.
What works best for me, is the little Ionic Pro compact air purifier in my bedroom at night. It's quite and handles the square footage nicely. Besides, as portable as my Honeywell 50250 is, it's still a hassle to to roll it through my home in the evenings then back out in the morning. I just keep it parked in my living room.
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