GVS Elipse Respirator - a review

We've been using the GVS Elipse Source Control daily for almost a year. To
clarify: it's recommended to use it for 1.5h and then take a 30min break. We
didn't do that, we usually used it for hours at a time. We're known as entities
who have a very positive opinion of it and who kept defending it, but now: to
our honest opinion.

We can't compare it to any other elastomeric respirator, since we have no
experience with any others.

The positives

• The filters really don't cost much. I've been using it originally because itcost me less then 7ct per piece FFP2 masks.
• It has a source control filter, unlike most respirators. That makes it a bitharder to breathe out but if we're sick we can also go shopping for examplewithout making everyone around us sick.
• It's compact and efficiently designed. Compared to a lot of other respirators,due to the filters flat and elastic design and its shape, even the M/L size isreally small and easy to transport.
• It seals well (duh).

The negatives

To preface: most of these are quite minor compared to the positives. It's better
then almost all FFP masks we have experience with.

• This is the bad side of it being compact: It's really, really small inside.The inhalation filters press against our mouth and the front wall of therespirator against our nose. In our case, that's not bad enough to hurt, butwe heard of that happening for at least one other person. It's more a minorinconvenience,
• The bottom rubber band that holds the respirator is falling apart, and itselastic pieces are falling into the respirator. This is bad, since we don'tknow if we're breathing them in or if they just get stuck on the exhalationvalve. The exhalation filter usually has a lot of the remnants of that rubberband stuck to it. This may happen because we pull the band too strongly, butstill: it seems like a major flaw to use rubber bands that can fall apart likethat. I guess we'll never know, how much that shortened our lifespan or if itwill give us cancer.
• The rubber thing on the upper rubber band is really flimsy and (for us) fellapart after a few months.
• The inhalation filters are a pain to replace. GVS system for keeping thefilters in place is... certainly something, you basically have a bunch of rubberhaving to interlock but on all sides and it's a nightmare to put the filters(especially the "Nuisance Odor" variant) in without breaking them.
• Probably a general elastomeric respirator thing: but it doesn't seal wellwhen laughing etc, due to folds on the nose happening that the rubber can'tform along.

Would we buy it again?

Probably not, actually! We're planning on buying one without these flaws, but
didn't get to looking much (feel free to make recommendations!). This time,
source control also will not be a requirement.

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sind die intake filter kaputt?

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