pretty much.cands wrote:Putting ice in the humidifier chamber and having the humidifier 'on' makes no sense, in my opinion. I imagine all this does is to make the heating element work harder to melt the ice and bring the water up to the right temperature to maintain the dialled in humidity.SewTired wrote:I tried putting ice into my brother's humidifier and it made no difference. He still complained the air was too hot, but if I turned the humidifier OFF, it wasn't enough humidity.
The only way this could have any effect is using passive humidification with the setting 'off'.
Putting ice in the humidifier
Re: Putting ice in the humidifier
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Re: Putting ice in the humidifier
Passive humidification is what I am using, no heat for the chamber.cands wrote:Putting ice in the humidifier chamber and having the humidifier 'on' makes no sense, in my opinion. I imagine all this does is to make the heating element work harder to melt the ice and bring the water up to the right temperature to maintain the dialled in humidity.SewTired wrote:I tried putting ice into my brother's humidifier and it made no difference. He still complained the air was too hot, but if I turned the humidifier OFF, it wasn't enough humidity.
The only way this could have any effect is using passive humidification with the setting 'off'.
Re: Putting ice in the humidifier
Cool! Pun intendedUncle_Bob wrote:Passive humidification is what I am using, no heat for the chamber.cands wrote:Putting ice in the humidifier chamber and having the humidifier 'on' makes no sense, in my opinion. I imagine all this does is to make the heating element work harder to melt the ice and bring the water up to the right temperature to maintain the dialled in humidity.SewTired wrote:I tried putting ice into my brother's humidifier and it made no difference. He still complained the air was too hot, but if I turned the humidifier OFF, it wasn't enough humidity.
The only way this could have any effect is using passive humidification with the setting 'off'.
I don't see how it could do any harm. I might even try it when it gets hot here in January and February...
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