Q&A
What is the Winix air quality indicator?
The Winix air quality indicator is a light that shows the quality of air currently in your room.
What are the air quality indicator colors?
The air quality indicator colors on a Winx PlasmaWave are Blue, Amber, and Red. When the light is shining Blue, your air quality is good. When it is shining Amber, you have normal to Fair air quality. Red means poor air quality.
What does it mean when the Winix air quality indicator stays Blue?
Blue is the best you can do. It means your air quality is very good.
Summary
Do I think Winix’s PlasmaWave advertisement is misleading?
Yes I do believe that it is meant to misconstrue on a couple of points. Being that it says it creates no harmful ozone but that’s only when the plasma wave function is not on or they’re really trying to say that it doesn’t create enough ozone to be considered harmful.
And it says it has a washable carbon filter. But washable in this case can only really mean vacuuming or brushing it off. It will still have to be replaced.
But on another level, I have to agree that this air purifier is much better than most of the most popular brands listed at the top of the page right now.
Without exception, all the air purifiers use the exact same technologies: true HEPA, activated carbon, and a pre filter. Winix PlasmaWave actually gives me the option of using Bipolar ionic that the other air purifiers do not. And it’s not like I can’t turn the function off when I do not need it.
And did I mention that the HEPA filter in the Winix PlasmaWave is separate from the carbon filter. A big plus if you want to do a DIY cleaning job on it.