Shark - HE601

I bought one. Not so sure it works. The light ring that indicates a change in air quality does change when I cook. I’m in an apartment. The unit is in my living room. But it takes a good 40 min to an hour to get back to 100 %. I would think that’s just the natural time of the air clearing. No help from the unit. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Also I just put it in the bathroom w my bf while he poops. No change in the air reading or smell of the bathroom. After this test I am returning.

I have one and I love it! I have two sick people in my house with a cold. It’s been kicking on a lot lately because it detects bacteria and viruses in the air. 🦠

I just bought a Shark air purifier and it’s near the kitchen. No more food smells lingering in the kitchen. It does NOT like sauerkraut, burnt eggs or fried tortillas 😆

Clears the air way faster and better than my Dyson. It’s a workhorse.

I've had 2 Levoit air purifiers and recently bought the new Shark Ninja one that doesn't require filters. They are all awesome at helping me breathe and keeps the dust and cat hair under control.

there are 2 filter, it has pre-filters on the outside that can be washed and inside is a typical air filter cartridge. The idea is the outer pre-filters catch most the debris and can be washed off, saving the inner hepa. But no, it’s not actually never-change, you will eventually have to replace the hepa, I think they say 5 yrs but all depends on

FYI: the fan on the microwave can still help, there is usually a carbon filter that will need periodic replacement. I just placed a Coway 400s next to my 3D printer. The carbon filter definitely helps when I am printing ABS filament. I also have some older 6 fan Shark towers that are now discontinued. They don’t have carbon filters, but still helped a great deal when cooking. For my Cuisinart electric grill, I have a smaller Shark cylinder next to it. When I grill salmon it quickly goes into low air quality (red) mode. The other units on the first floor (two Shark 6 fan towers) also go red and max filtration. Bottom line is that I find air filtration works well, but it does take some time to exchange enough air to reduce the cooking odors. Maybe a half hour with 2 large and one small unit running in auto mode. I think that two well placed Coways would probably exchange enough air to eliminate the odors fairly quickly. Put a smaller unit in the kitchen on the countertop near the stove for even more air exchange.

Shark has never change filter air purifiers on their clean sense IQ models now and they have built in air quality sensors and auto mode which is economical as it only turns on the fan when it senses something in the air. Also it has a button to switch between air quality views and show you what (PM 10, PM .5, PM 1) is fouling up the air quality. Also shows time to clean air and percentage of the air that's clean. I have two of them. I also have two of the Vornado AC350's. Their filter replacement are reasonable and the carbon filter can be easily upgraded on Amazon for a reasonable price.

I picked up[ ](https://cosmiccactus706.github.io/website/Shark-Navigator-HE601.html)[this purifier](https://cosmiccactus706.github.io/website/Shark-Navigator-HE601.html) at Costco. it’s quiet and handles my allergies well.

I have this model. It advertises as lasting 5 years between changes, but I think that is inaccurate because each environment is different. I think mine will need yearly or bi-yearly changes.

We've had ours for a few months. We keep it on auto, and don't use the fragrance thing. The purifier kicks on when we are cooking. It's nice and quiet.