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This started about a month ago when my parents agreed to renovate my bedroom because i haven't been very healthy this year and i told them i didn't think my bedroom was helping, one of the things i wanted was an air purifier, because i not only absolutely hate stuffy air but it also causes me migraine headaches (it doesn't help my dad is also a smoker), sure i could open the window but often the air outside isn't great either and i can't get enough of it in, so i decided i wanted an air purifier, i knew the ones that have ionizers could generate ozone in excess of safe levels but i had a solution to that, don't turn the ionizer on.
I was about to buy one but my brother said he had one in storage he hadn't used in a few years, so i let him set it up in my bedroom and a few minutes later i checked it out, the air was already much better but i could smell something vaguely electric, my brother said he had the ionizer on for a few minutes, no problem i thought, it's only a few minutes and my bedroom is big, and it's off now.
A few hours later i'm in my bedroom just trying to listen to the longest johns and i notice this smell is getting worse, like a mix between the sea, a thunderstorm, and a sweet dusty electrical smell like you'd get if you put your nose up to the back of a computer, it was going into my nose and throat and making me feel like i had a cold or sinus infection, after about two hours of this i finally ask my brother what's going on, there must be old dust in this, he started saying it's ozone and that's what it smells like, and yep the symptoms are pretty bad, we turned it off and opened a window and noticed that as the air returned to normal, i actually started to feel better.
Turns out this darn thing creates ozone even with the ionizer off! my brother still won't tell me why that happened or if there's a way of actually turning it off, but now the machine is basically OOO and i'm not allowed to use it.
Guess i'll have to put up with the migraines after all.
TL;DR: Got an air purifier because i hate stuffy air, worked perfectly, but didn't realize it also generates ozone, it gassed out my bedroom and now i'm allowed to use it.
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