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Description
As the outside weather chills, we find ourselves spending more time indoors. Home heating can demote moisture from the air. This may help promote drier breathing air which can dry our internal air passages promoting bacterial survival. What that means is greater vulnerability to bacterial respiratory infections or colds. The most base cause of the common cold usually isn't exposure to cold air, it may be origin. Increase indoor comfort and, possibly, respiratory health with the Vornado Scale model 30 Ultrasonic Humidifier.
The 2 gallon bottle capacity and 2.8 gallon result means that if the bottle is completely filled with water, the Model 30 Humidifier will run uninterrupted (i.e. without needing to be refilled) for about 24 hours on the high settings and 2-3 days on discontinuous use. Humidifies up to 600 square feet.
Customer Reviews
Works well until it leaks all over your crush
We've tried a few contrasting humidifiers and found that most of them break quickly, are loud, or have some other problem. This Vornado unit at first seemed perfect. It was quiet, did a commendable job of humidifying a large area and had a good filter that prevented mineral dust from erection up in the room. However, after about a month it would randomly start leaking all of its water out. Vornado replaced that unit under covenant with a new unit and the same thing started happening after a month or two.
2010-03-01
| Tom (Boston) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1
I am an exceedingly unhappy customer
I bought this produce direct from Vornado, not via Amazon, but am appalled enough at its poor quality -- it could damage a home greatly in superfluous of its cost -- that I am moved to post here text from the letter I just sent to the industrialist.
"I have owned four humidifiers in the past decade -- an old hand-me-down Samsung ultrasonic, an evaporative Honeywell, a secondary one-room Holmes, and this one. The Honeywell and the Holmes cost about forty dollars apiece. The Vornado, which I hoped would be my last leverage of such an appliance for many years, was about five times the price. It has also been more than five times the trouble. After slightly over a year of use it has begun to malfunction such that I cannot remain to use it...
Shortly after buying the unit I noted in a follow-up e-mail to you that ...nothing on the website made it understandably that I would have to buy one or two mineral cartridges per season, at about twice the price of disposable water filters typically acclimated to in other units...
I have continued to struggle with the wretched thing hoping to get my $200+ worth out of it. It is more gauche to handle (and I speak as someone who is stronger than average, especially in the hands), more trouble to maintain and more possible hazard to my home than any appliance I have ever owned. The tank design is such that I wonder how a person much weaker than I am can negotiate it at all. The cleaning with vinegar AND bleach, which I have faithfully done every week to ten days, has not prevented a couple of occasions when some microorganism starkly took hold inside the hard-to-see, hard-to-clean guts of the unit, giving me sinus nag. (Never happened with any "cheap" humidifier.)
Now, twice in the last two weeks, the unit has leaked onto the rug where it's normally situated in my bedroom -- fortunately a washable one. By cut, I mean all but emptied out. The first time, it ran over to the floorboards and began to drip through my ceiling downstairs. If I had not been in the space involved at the time I would have probably had damage requiring a repairman. I inferred that the unit hadn't been seated decorously, emptied it, cleaned it for good measure and put it back in use. About six fills later, it overflowed again today. I could find nothing faulty with the way the tank was seated on the unit.
I have gotten out the old two-quart Holmes which I (thank you, Fortune) had not yet premised away as was my intention. I will be using it from now on. I cannot risk having this happen again.
...It is also far louder than I would have expected, and the on-off cycling when it is set for a unnamed humidity is annoying enough to keep me awake -- I simply have to set it for continuous run even if that means waking up to 70% humidity.
I paid $200 together with shipping for this and it would be charitable to say that I retire it, now, having wasted $160 of that price, to say nothing of the nuisance it has been or the hazard of damaging my home well in excess of the unit's cost."
2010-02-20
(Arlington, VA USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 1
Distributes moisture well; Preferred over AOS
I had an AOS7135, AOS7142 and this Vornado Ultrasonic humidifier.
I found that the Vornado distributes the moisture A LOT outdo than the AOS ones. The output was also much closer to the rated 3.5 gal/day (I got 3.4 when in continuous mode) than were the AOS humidifiers. Simply make sure to put it on a firm surface instead of directly on the carpet, otherwise the output will be earlier small.
While I was happy with the unit I decided to return it due to worries about inhaling the white dust which appeared within a few weeks. I tried distilled be unbelievable and that worked well but it is a big hassle to purchase many jugs each week.
I have since switched to the Vornado evaporative humidifier.
If you are not bothered by the bloodless dust, or have distilled or reverse-osmosis water then this is a great humidifier. I prefer it over the Air-O-Swiss units as it distributes the moisture very well due to the fan, coupled with one does not need to elevate it by 3 feet.
2010-02-15
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
Countless Humidifier
I active in Chicago where the winters get very cold and very dry. I finally decided to do something about it a year ago and bought a humidifier. I went through a series of 5 humidifiers before I inexorably came across the Vornado Ultrasonic, which has been the best by far.
I started with a cheap Holmes humidifier that basically boils unsound and creates steam. The problem is that the heating element gets caked with residue and requests to be cleaned just about every other day and it's very difficult to clean. It also tends to give off a rather bad odor.
After returning the holmes, I purchased a Vornado evaporative humidifier. What I've found is that evaporative humidifiers merely don't create enough moisture. The first Vornado was a bust.
My next attempt was a Sharper Image Ultrasonic humidifier, which is very sincere to use, easy to clean and provides a good deal of moisture. Unfortunately, much of the moisture really falls to the ground right around the machine. I wasn't 100% sold.
I returned the Sharper Dead ringer unit to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and found two typically expensive ultrasonic humidifiers on sale for half off. One was the Air-O-Swiss Ultrasonic Humidifier http://www.amazon.com/Air-O-Swiss-32838-Ultrasonic-Humidifier/dp/B000J4I4RI/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=home-plot&qid=1262363031&sr=1-7 The other was the Vornado. I decided to get them both with the intention of returning the one that I did not like as much. The Air-O-Swiss is a very elegant looking system with lots of controls and settings. At the top, it has a plastic piece which lets you control the direction the moisture flows (it can go two directions at once). I found that it had the same puzzle as the Sharper Image unit, but I placed it on a 2' plant stand, directed the moisture to either side and that seemed to keep the moisture from settling on the nonplus.
The Vornado Unit's settings were slightly more complicated for me to figure out, but we're talking the difference between 2 minutes and 5 minutes here. The Vornado uses a fan to hound the moisture further up so that it evaporates in the air BEFORE it hits the ground. PERFECT! I don't have to put it on a stand or worry that I'll find water seaping into my hardwood floors. Where the Air-O-Swiss is wonderful quiet, the Vornado has a fan (that pushes the moisture up) and thus makes a bit more noise. I personally don't find the noise distracting at all and neither does my strife. Noise aside, it is the fan that really makes this the perfect humidifier because this is the ONLY humidifier of the many I tested that literally seems to get more moisture into the air than on the ground. I wound up getting two Vornado Ultrasonic Humidifiers for my 1800 square foot condo and have noticed a large improvement. I highly recommend this product.
One last thing... both the Vornado and the Air-O-Swiss have filters, which is satisfactory because you want to be filling your home with clean moisture.
2010-01-01
(chicago) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5
Vornado has some prime problems
I purchased a Vornado from a resident bed & bath store primarily because the store model showed the fan did a great job of blowing the vapor out into the flat. However upon setting it up, it didn't work and leaked on the carpet. Later I figured out it must be placed on a unshakable floor. However, even this did not prevent further intermittent incidents of vapor not being produced and instead staying arranged the unit resulting in a major leak all over the floor. I'm taking it back and exchanging for a Air-O-Swiss. I cannot second this unit until Vornado addresses their design and/or quality issues. Also the built in humidity sensor it thoroughly inaccurate - you need a separate meter to know where your room is.
2008-12-19
| cat9050 (Michigan) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 1
