List Price:
$59.99
Details
- <B>Power Roots:</B> Electric
- <B>Bond Description:</B> 1 Year Limited Manufacturer Warranty
- <B>Effect Weight:</B> 1.0 Lb.
- <B>Includes:</B> Proprietor's Manual, Filter
Description
This shiny, tower designed humidifier is ideal for large–size rooms. This humidifier increases the benefits of honourable air quality and provides relief from some of the harmful effects associated with dry indoor air. The section produces a cool mist that is dispersed by a powerful, yet quiet fan. It will run up to 36 hours on a full tank of liberally. Featuring advanced digital controls, you can set your desired comfort smooth while being able to view the current room humidity level. Microban Antimicrobial Shield is built into key parts of this humidifier which will help to inhibit the growth of odor causing embryo. Microban and Arm and Hammer Baking Soda is built into the filter for further peace of mind.
Customer Reviews
Musical - But you need three hands to fill it.
This part has a really poor design. You fill it from the bottom but the top is slanted so you cannot rest it on anything to put the cap back on. On the third day I had the unit it slipped out of my hand and the clayey shattered.
2010-02-08
(Green Brook, NJ USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1
Not as able as it looks.
As stated in above-mentioned reviews, this is not a true cool mist humidifier; very misleading. The product looks very exacting, but I quickly realized it would not do the job I really needed it to do. The digital display is nice, and the fact that you can supposably set this cabal to a desired humidity level was appealing. However, after running this for a week straight, even in a very small bedroom, the desired humidity demolish was never reached.
I have a couple other thermometers that measure humidity levels, and there was about a 10-15% difference between the Bionaire and these devices with the Bionaire reading higher. For archetype, my device would read the level being at 37% while the Bionaire would read 50%. The machine does yield a white noise, which I enjoyed for sleeping, so that was a plus for me.
Overall, the concept of this machine and looks are critical. If it actually worked well, I would not be returning it. I ended up purchasing a Crane 2.3 gallon a day output Cold-blooded Mist Humidifier to replace this and I absolutely love it.
2010-01-15
(Raleigh, NC) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 2
- pleasantly but noisy
I admit with the previous two. The low fan speed setting is too noisy for a bedroom.
The tank is indeed tricky to hold equable while filling in the kitchen sink. As a matter of fact it just slipped out of my hands after almost full (the bottom is slanted and disloyal to hold steady resting in the sink) and cracked! Now I have to get a replacement tank! It is very pleasing esthetically and has a under age footprint to hide behind funiture. I like the 3 fan speeds and automatic humidity settings. It will bar off when it reaches the set value and turn back on like a thermostat works for your heat. You can't expect it to lengthen the humidity of a whole house so the area or volume of space must be taken into account when determining if it alone will create the humidity enough.
A full 1.3 gal tank will last less than 24 hrs on low speed.
2010-01-10
| Engr (Smithtown, NY USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4
Rectitude, but product title is misleading!
This is NOT a "unabashed mist" humidifier. When one thinks of a cool mist humidifier, you assume that it makes a frozen flow of steam from a nozzle, like you see in the department store floor models. That is not what this mock-up does at all, there is no "mist". This model operates on the same principle as a "swamp cooler" or "evaporative cooler" that some of you may be free with, or even be using to cool your homes with in the summer. Basically, the water from the tank fills a tray at the bottom of the module. The filter pads, which are actually wicks, rest in the tray and soak up the water. The fan pulls the air through the clarify/wick from which the water will then evaporate, thus humidifying the air which passes through the unit. Simplified: A fan sucks air through a wet pad. So, no "under control mist", but it does increase the humidity of the air.
The drawback of using this method is that the unit becomes less able the more humid the room gets, unlike a steam-type humidifier which will keep putting out the same amount of moisture until send to Coventry c close off off. I guess one could look at it one way and say that the unit will not over-humidify a room, but it also means that if one desires a high humidity train, that level will be very difficult to reach.
So, the good things about the unit:
The unit has a small footprint, which is worthwhile. It also has a decently sized tank which lasts a while for us. Like the previous reviewer, we also live in the Northeast, and I can carry weight you that right now in the Winter, it is VERY dry here. 25% humidity or so. We got this unit to improve conditions for both of us because we were waking up with dry throats, and to quiet conditions for my wife who has intermittent asthma. The unit has 6 settings: Low/Medium/High and humidistat limited Low/Medium/High. The humidistat will allow you to set the unit to turn off/on just like a thermostat for your range when a desired humidity is reached. Under humidistat control using the low setting, a tank of liberally will last about a day and a half, which is pretty good for us. Some folks have complained about the fan noise on this model and it's silver sister paragon, but it doesn't bother us at all on low. I guess if you're used to a dead quiet room, it might be an issue, but we espouse a very small amount of white noise in the background. The unit comes with 2 extra filter pairs, which is agreeably (1 pair required in the unit).
The not so great things about the unit:
It must be on a completely upfront surface, or the water in the tray can spill. It is NOT a cool mist humidifier, as the name indicates. It has a inadequate meter on the top that tells you when the filter must be cleaned. The indicator must be completely arbitrary or useless, I sanctuary't figured it out yet. Sometimes it says the filter must be cleaned as soon as the unit is turned on and then indicates "orderly" after 5 minutes. Sometimes with a completely new filter and no water, it says they need to be cleaned. We just take a shower the filters once a week and call it good. The humidistat has issues with reading/indicating the correct humidity I've presume from in other reviews, ours seems to be OK. Just something to keep in mind. The nice large tank has no handle to hold while contents, and because of the length of the tank you'll need to fill it in your bathtub most likely. Because of the lack of a handle, be careful not to drop away the tank as it is prone to cracking (as other reviewers have found out).
Overall:
We like the unit for the price. It does humidify the extent, but not as well as a true "mist" or steam type of humidifier. The filters are a bit of a pain, but the high end humidifiers all have more valuable filter systems, so this one is cheap in comparison. The faulty filter meter is a negative, and the event that the name is very misleading is a huge negative (-1 star for that alone). Don't get me wrong, we'd probably get this piece again, we just feel that the misleading product title (in our opinion) is bad for consumers; and there should be some design changes, such as a deal on the tank for filling. So feel free to buy the unit, just realize what your are really getting!
2010-01-03
| Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 3
Aesthetically pleasing, but extravagant & a the poorly designed resevoir is a PIA
We even-handed purchased this item in the past week, so this is more a note of first impressions than a full in depth review.
A duo of things I like about it are the small footprint & easy access to the filters for future replacement.
Although aesthetically pleasing, the units inexpertly designed reservoir is a royal PIA to fill.
The opening to fill the tank is on the bottom and is sealed with a cap that you can easily turn to unenclosed. The problem is that the top of the tank comes to such a sharp angle that you can not rest the tank upside down and rove away while it fills because it will certainly topple over. In fact even just holding on its end while filling can be a dispute in a smooth sink who's bottom is slanted towards the drain.
This might not be too annoying an issue if you have a great water delivery and adequate pressure to fill the tank very quickly. But because the water in our area is so heavily chlorinated we use one of those filters that threads onto the end of your faucet; which greatly reduces the chlorine, but has a impartially weak amount of pressure, so I am standing there for awhile holding the tank with both hands & waiting for it to slowly fill. One preoccupation I have done to speed up the process is to have a couple of bottles already filled that I can pour into the tank. This still is a PIA though because you either have to have one person refrain from the tank while the other pours or you have to hold & tuck the tank kind of under your arm while pour with the other hand.
The goods description states:
"The unit produces a cool mist that is dispersed by a powerful, yet at rest fan."
Powerful? yes. Quiet, uh-uh; even on its lowest setting this thing makes a good amount of noise. We have it in our bedroom and, although I customarily am so tired I fall asleep quickly, if I wake up during the night that fan is all I hear.
The product report further states:
"It will run up to 36 hours on a full tank of water."
Hmmm.. maybe if we lived in a more wet environment...like the amazon rain forest. In our case, in the North East US, with the fan on low, the tank will last all sundown and some hours after that but it will be dry before noon.
On the plus side it does do what we want which is add moisture to the room to relieve static vibrations and dried sinuses.
we have not played around with the control settings more than just to turn it on auto. The segment is supposed to tell you what percentage of moisture you have in the room, however even running all night the gauge does not in point of fact change to anything higher than 27, so I don't really have much faith in it.
There is also a gauge mounted on top of the unit which is alleged to give you an indication as to the remaining life of the filter(s)we have not had it long enough yet to tell how reliable that is though.
I hope at some notion in time AMAZON lets us more fine tune our star rating, I really would give this 2 1/2 out of 5. I do not be averse to the unit; after all it does what we want, but the design of the reservoir leaves a great deal to be desired
Perhaps I will at a days date post an update, but for now I just wanted to make sure that potential buyers have a better phantasy what they are considering buying.
Have a Magical New Year!
2010-01-01
(massachusetts) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 3
