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Originally Posted by
Polaris OBark
The time-averaging smooths out (or at least minimizes) the spikes. The yurt-fscks would periodically stoke their wood stove, and the 2.5 reading would spike into the instantaneous lung cancer level, but would disappear in the time-average. One of the nice things about the detector is it allows you to access all of the data, not just the time-averages.
I'm a professional data junkie, so I like that on Purple Air you can look at the last 48 hours for any sensor.
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