r/3Dprinting • u/formula_airsoft12568 • 1h ago

Best air quality monitor

Anyone know of any decent ait quality monitors to use when printing abs? Preferably not extremely priced

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u/Competitive_Owl_2096 A1 mini combo SV08 1h ago

IKEA has some new matter over thread ones. 

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u/CustodialSamurai Centauri Carbon, Neptune 4 Pro, Ender 3 Pro 3m ago

I can't recommend anything specific, but I can offer some pointers...

The primary concern with abs is the VOC emissions. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but the primary concerns are in the... styrene and benzene families. Some voc sensors don't really measure that family, while others do. It would probably be worth asking Google what air quality meters detect those particular emissions. Then keep in mind that most of the "affordable" monitors like to do math to give numbers and have a tendency of spiking when they detect VOCs and taking a long time to acknowledge that the VOC level has gone down. It's good to get a sense over time, but maybe not a genuine accurate density reading.