Sarah Gudeman is a mechanical engineer and Practice Lead at BranchPattern in Omaha, Nebraska. Also into: sustainability, buildings, food, music, books, whiskey, and workouts.
Great video. Thanks. I'm still shopping, I ruled out the Blue Air, now I'm going to take a look at it again. I bought a levoit mini for the bedroom, but need one for the basement.
Found this trying to find an installation of the outdoor video :(. I'd love to see how people have theirs setup/installed, but theres just nothing on youtube for it </3
Hi Sarah, With all you knowledge, can you help me out? I needed a monitor my son’s room and bathroom where my neighbour occasional smoke. Pm2.5 will spike in the middle of the night. It’s horrifying. I have a Airthings view pollution and IFFFT for alerts than I can turn on my purifier on high. But they only samples the air every 10 mins. Can you recommend one that like picks up air samples more often and I can set up alerts when PM spikes ? ( home assistance is a bit too technical for me 😢) Please and thank you .
Actually Normal CO2 levels range between 600 to 800 ppm. If you see a monitor sold that shows 410 ppm in the description (in a household/inside environment) - stay away from it because it is more than likely fake.
I've certainly found the Aranet 4 unit to be a very effective means of assessing and comparing ventilation in various indoor environments. One does find some interesting and often startling differences between venues!, e.g.: 3400 in a hotel room after a night of sleeping; a surprisingly low 650-680 in a well-packed preference venue after a full two hours of an energetic show; from 580 rocketing to over 1800 in our kitchen-living room space 10 minutes after starting to use the gas stove to prepare dinner. And this morning on election day 2020, only 690 in a tightly-packed small gymnasium in the elementary school used as our local polling place (vs. 435 outdoors).
Thanks for sharing this Sarah, and glad I found your channel. We currently have a few awair devices around our home, but are looking at the Omni for an upcoming addition/renovation to add around our home. Do you have any recommendations on how many/where they should be placed in a single-family residential environment?
Honestly I think the Omni is probably more than you need for a home... even I only have the Elements. Though I do have three (one in each bedroom). Really you want to place sensors where you spend the most time and for us, as with most people, the most time we spend at home is typically when we're sleeping!
priceless. unintentionally funny ‘- her assumption we all spent hanksgiving prioritizingmesuring our air purigiers :P why not go the whoe hog, show us the banks of test equipment, which we all havw, right?n - Idon’t think the mnotone delivery is a sleep aid zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.plasma-wave gullible, methinks. love it.
Nice work, I am desperate to find a portable battery and USB run filter to make travelling with a baby safe despite airborne Covid transmission, especially in the takeoff and landing times where the airplane's Aircon is largely switched off! Please keep up the reviews!
Hey Sarah I've had my rb sensor for a year now but I don't think it's programmed correctly. It rained all day yesterday but this morning the irrigation system started. Do you know how long the sensor delays the next watering? Unfortunately the app doesn't have a way to check on the sensor status. Thanks for any help!
Does the indoor indicator show the rain icon after the outdoor sensor is wetted? Have you checked batteries and connection to the indoor controller? Check out the IOM for more: www.rainbird.com/sites/default/files/media/documents/2018-10/WR2-UserManual_EN-FR-ES.PDF
@@SarahGudeman thx for the reply and link. Quick glance at the controller looks like it's set correctly. I'll copy the link to my phone and run through it step by step.
