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What’s Wrong With The Honeywell Humidifier

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually just discovered that channel a couple weeks ago. Kind of amazing how interesting he can make such mundane topics. (Though I do prefer to watch at 1.75-2x speed.)

This channel is the only one where I find real utility in Newpipe's ability to go faster than that.

I watched some of the US congressional testimony last year during the impeachment, that was the first time 3.5+ was worth it for me.

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I'm pretty sure I had this exact model of humidifier at one point and had...none of these issues?

- I was able to pop the fan grille off for cleaning, it took me a while to figure out how, but once I did it was pretty easy.

- The wick does get crusty with mineral deposits, but I just soaked it in a 50/50 mixture of vinegar and water (with a good subsequent rinsing), and it was almost as good as new.

- The rest was pretty easy to clean. As easy as any other humidifier I've owned, at any rate.

- I had it in a small bedroom (couldn't be more than 200 sq. ft), and it was perfectly humid in the room. Granted, it was a tiny room.

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Sat in a damp London flat, with condensation permanently dripping down the windows (despite the dehumidifier running virtually 24/7), I struggle to relate to a world where you would deliberately want to put moisture into the air.

And as someone who lives in Brisbane Australia I’m right there in confusion with you! We run our aircon on the de -humidify setting haha

There are many places in the USA where in the summer you use AC to dehumidify the air and in the winter you do everything you can to add humidity.

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Technology Connections just recently made a really good video about humidifiers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28

Does anybody know if it's safe to add copper sulfate to evaporative humidifier? I've checked some resources and based on what I read it should be safe and very cheap. Yet this doesn't seem to be popular so I'm wondering if maybe I'm missing something. I'm only talking about evaporative humidifier.

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I did an exhaustive search and tried them all. The answer is Vornado Evap40. Can easily dump 2 gallons in half a day. Nothing even comes close. Key is moderate negative air pressure. Operating cost is higher than most but well worth it.

Why is negative air pressure important?

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A company accused Wirecutter of being pay-for-play, based on how how heavily affiliate revenue (allegedly) factors into Wirecutter reviews. [1] The Wirecutter responded here. [2] I wonder if this was part of the reason that the Honeywell unit was recommended. 1: https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to... 2: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/our-response-to-nextdesk/

I suspect you are right. I bought a wireless router they recommended once, and it was worse than the one it replaced. Since then I have not trusted any online review site.

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After years of garbage humidifiers, I made my own. It cost a tiny fraction of the high end models, has huge reservoir, easy to clean, easy to modify and repair. It's a food grade 5 gallon bucket ($3) with a bathroom vent fan ($15) mounted to the lid with a pvc pipe section ($2 maybe) for adapting the fan the wick, a flour sack cloth towel (pack of 10 for $5). A couple of holes in the lid, some creative testing for ho…

If you perfect it, I hope you write up instructions and post them here!

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Technology Connections just recently made a really good video about humidifiers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28

Does anybody know if it's safe to add copper sulfate to evaporative humidifier? I've checked some resources and based on what I read it should be safe and very cheap. Yet this doesn't seem to be popular so I'm wondering if maybe I'm missing something. I'm only talking about evaporative humidifier.

If it has a fan then it you might have to worry about aerosolized water.
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