Re: Room humidifiers and distilled water
I have a distiller from Amazon, it makes one gallon in 4 hours, my 1 gal humidifier uses about 1 gal a day, so it keeps up.
My place is tiny, so a 1 gal warm moisture (boiler) humidifier meets my needs.
Distiller: CO-Z Water Distiller $109
Humidifier: Honeywell HWM-705B humidifier $33
My tap water is very hard, the humidifier would have to be cleaned every gallon. The distiller also has to be cleaned every gallon but it's like washing a pot, much easier to clean than the humidifier. The citric acid distiller cleaners make it easy, I use it about every 3 gallons.
Cost to make a gallon @ $.17 / kwh (4 hours at 750 watts) is $.50. This is cheaper than buying distilled water at the grocery store.
Cost to use a gallon @ 24 hours on low at 130w is $.53.
So about $1 a day total for me.
I was buying distilled water, now I refill those plastic bottles with the distiller.
I only need humidification during winter, which out here in northern CA is about 4 months of the year.
My preferred RH is 50%, both my instruments and my sinuses like it. :-)
WRT to bulk distilled water, we have a reverse osmosis water store near me, it produces essentially distilled quality water, maybe that could work for you. I seem to recall the price per gallon was lower than my $.50 distiller figure, and 3 gallon jugs were the easiest size to manage for me.
Last edited by kurth83; Jan-25-2021 at 1:56pm.
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