Mike Senese

A few years ago I bought a Westinghouse 1701 air purifier that advertised medical-grade air purification and particulate eradication. It worked for about a year. Then one day it powered on but the fan/blower wouldn’t work. I stashed it in the closet to figure out at a later time.

And now it makes sense why Westinghouse quietly discontinued this, and has distanced itself from it. (Or maybe not, it would be interesting to crack open one of their newer models to see if it uses the same components.)

A few years ago I bought a Westinghouse 1701 air purifier that advertised medical-grade air purification and particulate eradication. It worked for about a year. Then one day it powered on but the fan/blower wouldn’t work. I stashed it in the closet to figure out at a later time.

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A few years ago I bought a Westinghouse 1701 air purifier that advertised medical-grade air purification and particulate eradication. It worked for about a year. Then one day it powered on but the fan/blower wouldn’t work. I stashed it in the closet to figure out at a later time.

Ozone (O₃) is a highly reactive molecule that oxidizes and breaks down organic compounds like mold, bacteria, odors, VOCs. The idea is that it chemically destroys pollutants rather than just trapping them in a filter. Apparently manufacturers market it as a “deep clean” for the air.

A few years ago I bought a Westinghouse 1701 air purifier that advertised medical-grade air purification and particulate eradication. It worked for about a year. Then one day it powered on but the fan/blower wouldn’t work. I stashed it in the closet to figure out at a later time.

I looked it up online. The information was pretty alarming. Its label, 臭氧发生器, translates to "ozone generator." So this unit was generating ozone as part of its air “purification,” which is actually controversial and considered harmful by the EPA at the levels some of these devices produce.

A few years ago I bought a Westinghouse 1701 air purifier that advertised medical-grade air purification and particulate eradication. It worked for about a year. Then one day it powered on but the fan/blower wouldn’t work. I stashed it in the closet to figure out at a later time.

One of the transistors, probably a MOSFET, looked like it had been dissolved in acid. This wasn’t going to be an easy capacitor-replacement repair after all.

A few years ago I bought a Westinghouse 1701 air purifier that advertised medical-grade air purification and particulate eradication. It worked for about a year. Then one day it powered on but the fan/blower wouldn’t work. I stashed it in the closet to figure out at a later time.

The fan was a typical hamster wheel style blower and although I noticed surface rust inside of it, the motor spun smoothly and freely. This was not a case of a seized motor.

A few years ago I bought a Westinghouse 1701 air purifier that advertised medical-grade air purification and particulate eradication. It worked for about a year. Then one day it powered on but the fan/blower wouldn’t work. I stashed it in the closet to figure out at a later time.

The unit nests together in many pieces, and as I continued to take it apart, I indeed found more rusty screws. Still, my hunch was that I could probably find a bad capacitor and swap it out to bring this thing back to life

A few years ago I bought a Westinghouse 1701 air purifier that advertised medical-grade air purification and particulate eradication. It worked for about a year. Then one day it powered on but the fan/blower wouldn’t work. I stashed it in the closet to figure out at a later time.

I recently had a free afternoon to pull this apart and see if I could solve it. This unit used two filters, one of them a “reactor core” (I had bought two spares of this when I purchased this, they come sealed).

A few years ago I bought a Westinghouse 1701 air purifier that advertised medical-grade air purification and particulate eradication. It worked for about a year. Then one day it powered on but the fan/blower wouldn’t work. I stashed it in the closet to figure out at a later time.

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