If you have been using Coway Air Purifier for a while, you would have observed that the air quality indicator shows different colors blue, purple, and red.
Suppose your coway air purifier stays on purple light for a long time, even though your room air quality is good. This seems to be an issue with the sensor.
Do not worry, you can fix this issue by yourself.
Here in this article, we have covered the topic of the coway air purifier purple light: what does it mean, and how you need to respond to the purple indicator light and other indicator lights observed in the coway air purifier.
Let’s deep dive to understand and resolve purple light.
Coway air purifier’s air quality indicator shows purple light only if your room air quality is moderate. To improve the air quality in your room, you need to increase the fan speed, this will change the color of the air quality indicator to blue.
Why Does Coway Air Purifier Blinking Purple Light?
Coway air purifier indicates the air quality of the room in real-time with different colors including purple color. By checking the color of the LED light, you can determine the air quality of the room.
If you find your coway air purifier is showing purple light, it indicates that your room air quality is moderate. It is polluted with dust particles.
If it is not corrected, the room air quality may become even poor and it is unhealthy. It is indicated with a Red LED light.
You need to improve the air purifier performance by increasing the fan speed of the air purifier. This helps increase in air filtration rate which finally improves the quality of the air.
After some time, you will observe that the air quality indicator shows a blue color light. It indicates that the air quality of the room is good and healthy.
An alternate approach to increasing the fan speed is, you select the Auto Mode option which adjusts the fan speed based on the air quality. This feature will adjust fan speed automatically and it doesn’t require manual interference.
How to Increase the Fan Speed in Coway Air Purifier?
You can control the fan speed of the coway air purifier from the control panel. You can adjust the fan speed from low to medium to high.
If you have the Coway Airmega AP-1512 HHS Model, you can control the air purifier with the help of voice control assistants such as Alexa, and Google, and also from your mobile through an App.
Why Does Coway Air Purifier Purple Light Not Turning Off?
If your coway air purifier is showing purple color light, it indicates that your room air quality is polluted.
You need to respond to it by increasing the fan speed, this improves the air quality, and sometime later, the color of the air quality indicator turns to blue color.
Though you have run your air purifier for some time by increasing the fan speed, you observe that your coway air purifier is still showing a purple color light. This can be due to an issue with the air quality sensor.
It happens if dust forms a layer on the surface of sensors, which results in incorrect air quality information.
You need to clean the air quality sensor to get accurate air quality information.
While cleaning the air quality sensor, be careful as it is very sensitive, and do not use any cleaning detergent for cleaning.
How to Clean an Air Quality Sensor?
Coway air purifier provides the air quality of the room in real-time with the help of an air quality sensor.
If this sensor is not cleaned regularly, then this provides inaccurate information about the air quality.
It is recommended to clean the air quality sensor once in two months so that this sensor provides accurate information.
If you use this air purifier in a dusty environment, it is important that you need to clean this sensor more often.
For cleaning the sensors, you require a vacuum or soft brush and a cotton swab. It is important to remember that cleaning agents should not be used.
Steps involved in cleaning the air quality sensor in the coway air purifier:
Step 1: Open the Air Quality Sensor Cover
The first step in cleaning the air quality sensor is you need to locate the sensor in your air purifier.
Next, you need to open the sensor cover.
Step 2: Clean the Air inlet, Outlet, and Sensor
Now you need to clean the air inlet, air outlet vent, and sensor. As in these places, you will find that dust particles settled.
With the help of a vacuum cleaner or soft brush, you can clean these areas.
Step 3: Clean the Lenses with a Cotton Swab
Now you need to clean the sensor lenses with the help of a cotton swab.
First, use a wet cotton swab to remove any leftover dust from the lenses, air inlet, and outlet.
Next, you need to remove the moisture with the help of a dry cotton swab.
Step 4: Close the Air Quality Sensor Cover
Once a sensor cleaning is done, ensure there is no moisture on the sensor lens.
After this, you need to close the air quality sensor cover.
Ensure that the sensor cover is closed properly.
How to Adjust the Air Quality Sensor?
The Air Quality sensor helps to provide the information about air quality in the room. By default, the air quality sensor is set to standard sensitivity.
If you find that pollution levels in the air stay at the highest level after 2 hours of using the air purifier or stay at the lowest level after more than 1 hour of using it.
If the quality of the air doesn’t seem to be clean then you need to adjust the sensor.
To adjust the air quality sensor, you need to follow the step-by-step process.
- You need to ensure the air purifier is on.
- Next, you need to press the airflow speed button and ionizer button for 2 seconds.
- Now you will observe that the speed indicator will flash at a one-second interval with a beep sound.
- The speed indicator blinks to show the sensor sensitivity.
- Now, adjust the sensor sensitivity, by pressing the speed button.
- The last step is to press the speed button and ionizer button for 2 seconds. Now your air purifier performs normal operations.
Speed step 1 indicates sensitivity.
Speed step 2 indicates standard.
Speed step 3 indicated insensitivity.
What Does the Red Light Mean in the Coway Air Purifier?
The air quality sensor in Coway Air Purifier shows a red color light if the air quality of the room is poor or highly Polluted.
You need to improve the air quality of the room, by increasing the fan speed or selecting the Auto Mode feature.
If your filter indicator highlights, you need to replace the filter to ensure clean air in the room.
What Does the Blue Light Mean in the Coway Air Purifier?
If your air quality sensor shows blue color light in your coway air purifier, it indicates that the indoor air quality of your room is good.
You need not worry if you see a blue color light in your air purifier.
You need to take the necessary steps, if you see a purple color or red color light on your coway air purifier.
Conclusion
Coway air purifier’s purple light indicates that the room air quality is poor. You need to improve the air quality by increasing the fan speed.
If your air purifier shows a purple light a lot more frequently, then you need to clean the air quality sensor.
We covered the cleaning of air quality sensors in this article. You follow the guide to resolve the issue of the coway air purifier’s purple color light indicator.
Hope this article resolves your issue!!
Happy Clean Air Breathing!!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How Often Do You Need to Clean a Coway Air Purifier?
It is recommended to clean once in three months. But if you live in polluted areas including urban areas or busy cities, then you need to clean the air purifier very often.
How Often Do You Need to Clean a Coway Air Purifier Sensor?
It is recommended to clean the air quality sensor once every two months. If you live in a busy area or an urban area you need to clean the sensor very often.
