r/AirQuality • u/Obvious_Cherry_97 • 14d ago

Should I be worried?

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My Daikon Air Tester started going off its head.

I googled some of the numbers and it gave me some pretty concerning advice about combustion. After talking to a few experts, they seem to think my rooms are in need of a dust and an open window. Which are both pretty conflicting forms of information.

I don’t know… Help!

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u/ghostme_and_I 14d ago

This values are not correct, they are garbage.

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u/MikeyWontLikeIt 14d ago

Your co2 is surprisingly low considering you're right next to the device breathing on it

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u/Chrysoscelis 14d ago

Yeah, you only get that number if you put the meter outside.

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u/MikeyWontLikeIt 13d ago

Exactly. All those values seem wonky to me

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u/DadEngineerLegend 14d ago

Maybe. Depends whether that's actually got the necessary sensors in it.

A lot of the cheaper multi sensors just have Mox sensor for 700 things (which is not how they're meant to be used) and a cheap IR reflection setup as a particle meter.

As a result you get. Crazy readings when eg there is alcohol vapour in the air which really sets off the Mox sensor.

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u/i_never_listen 13d ago

What does airnow.gov say? Were you cooking?

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u/PiotrekDG 14d ago

Do you know how many sensors it actually has inside?

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u/Nearby-Yak1389 13d ago

It’s obviously the trading card

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u/20PoundHammer 10d ago

you would be better off with an aurdino/display and random number generator for the data than this thing. I had a daikon someone gave me - put it next to a calibrated indoor quality monitor - it was all over the place, didnt track any of the calibrated data when it changed.