Humidifiers: Simpler is better?

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The air. It holds water! And how much it holds matters! A lot, in fact. Sometimes we need to adjust it in the upwards persuasion. Learn why and how in this little ol’ video!
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@TechnologyConnections 3 года назад

“Did you just buy a humidifier and… turn that into content?” Guilty as charged! But also, it’s been a surprisingly large quality-of-life improvement for me and the topic turned out to be worthy of exploration. I look forward to all the weird towel contraptions you’ll no doubt devise! *On that note! Important extra info lies below!* I was trying to avoid describing one type of humidifier as universally better than another, but I'm not sure I succeeded. Which kind will work the best for you is very, very situational. What struck me most about the evaporative style is simply how effective it is for how simple it is. But, a thing that I totally didn't address (and I, for real, pinky-promise meant to but simply forgot) was the cooling effect of evaporative humidifiers. After all, if it's the same thing as a swamp cooler, doesn't that mean it cools a bit? Well.... kinda. It's complicated by the fact that the ability of swamp coolers to cool depends on how dry the air is, so once these things have brought the humidity up to anything appreciable, that cooling effect is very mild. But it is indeed true that the water "stole" some heat from the air in order to evaporate, so some cooling inevitably occurs. I'll talk about this more casually on Connextras: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HfFAiCMLJ14.html

@ZGryphon 3 года назад

And now you can write it off as a business expense! Clever. :)

@Prestonshow 3 года назад

@davidt8087 3 года назад

Fuk I'm not first

@Ck-iq1up 3 года назад

Can you do a video on water purifiers? Please

@JonesNate 3 года назад

For what it's worth, dry air gives me nosebleeds.

@ketralnis 3 года назад

This channel is secretly a scheme to turn Alec's new homeowner costs into tax deductions. Next week: "how do roofs work?"

@3nertia 3 года назад

That's actually not a terrible idea xD

@CryptoRoast_0 3 года назад

Amazing 😂😂

@letsburn00 3 года назад

I just realised why every RU-vidr who does nerdy stuff went for the Tesla roof and battery option.

@chriss31 3 года назад

10/10!

@LoveStallion 3 года назад

And I only now just learned the host's name after many, many videos.

@christopherpedersen1820 3 года назад

"I bought a humidifier last week."- Now has 4 humidifiers.

@aronfejes 3 года назад

Five***

@artificernathaniel3287 3 года назад

Reminds me of the guy buying one humidifier off of amazon and amazon kept offering him ads for his newfound humidifier collection 😂 If Technology Connections has 5 of them then I guess it works on some people! 😂

@JoshHeidenreich 3 года назад

Next week it'll be 16

@christo930 3 года назад

Thank God for steam heat. I've never need a humidifier with my 'fill the air with water' steam heat. Steam heat runs with the baseboards open until the radiator gets hot enough to close a valve. This dumps a lot of steam into the air around the baseboards. It also means anything cold in the house sweats.

@atomlib 3 года назад

For at least some of them, he clearly bought them used or borrowed them from someone. The ultrasonic one has signs of use.

@rosehawke2577 Год назад

Light dim decal?! Such a thing exists?! OMG I got so excited I had to pause the video and go looking for some. No longer will I have to put black electrician's tape over the bright-enough-to-burn-your-eyes-out LED displays which sort of, you know, negates the convenience of actually having a display to tell you what's going on. The room air purifier we have is particularly egregious, but I've also taken the tape to routers and computer towers. Thank you soooooo much.

@gunshotNrun Год назад

you can also just get a roll of cheap window tint film and cut small squares to fit whatever you need

@IamCoalfoot Год назад

Ironically, the blue led's on my bedside clock are so dim I can't see them half the time. Seriously, manufacturers, our eyes just aren't made to see blue light clearly; it scatters too easily, and blends in with morning sunlight. =_=

@qwertykeyboard5901 Год назад

@@IamCoalfoot WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BLASPHEMOUS CLOCK!?

@raspberryjam Год назад

I was so annoyed at the light in my computer tower's power button I just straight up traced the button and busted out the arduino male female wires to just disconnect them and so now I have a little band of rainbow in my pc :3

@RAndrewNeal 7 месяцев назад

Kapton tape is especially good, without the need to buy a specialized product. With its amber color, it greatly dims blue LEDs. I use it on almost anything with a bright blue LED, and it can of course be stacked if one piece isn't enough.

@hingedelephant Год назад

I like that he just throws in “quicklier” without skipping a beat.

@kitsunekaze93 3 года назад

11:20 "its brown" correction "its orange with context"

@drakorez 3 года назад

Well done my friend

@Ktulu789 3 года назад

I see you are a man of culture!

@markwright3161 3 года назад

*dark orange

@MrRoeler 3 года назад

Wisdom is spreading thanks to Technology connections 👌

@nitehawk86 3 года назад

If there is anything that Technology Connections and Regular Car Reviews have in common, its *HOT BROWN*

@jjackandbrian5624 3 года назад

"It is brown, and therefore excellent." I agree, dark orange is my favorite color.

@billagedad1 3 года назад

brown is still weird....

@mdr48371 3 года назад

*with context

@marks6663 3 года назад

I think he has gone black, and he is not going back.

@heshiram1188 3 года назад

You mean Dark Yellow Red

@digitalfootballer9032 3 года назад

I think he and Mr. Regular from Regular Car Reviews would get along well with their mutual affection of BROWN 🟤🟤🟤

@60sSam Год назад

As someone who also has to suffer through Illinois winters, and who also has a humidifier set up and running not five feet from his desk, I can 100% agree, humidifiers are a necessity.

@riordanparata4339 Год назад

Oh god I live in the subtropics of the north island of New Zealand so we all have central dehumidifiers not cooling or heating just dehumidifi.

@byeFofiko1 Год назад

I feel like everything got so much drier when I moved to Boston, is Illinois supposed to be worse?

@Supreme_Lobster 9 месяцев назад

A necessity for what?

@lunathecutest6652 9 месяцев назад

Try living in Nevada. Its almost always 0% humidity. No matter the season.

@SubvertTheState 9 месяцев назад

@@Supreme_LobsterIt actually helps the air inside retain heat. Water has a very high thermal intertia, I've noticed such a huge difference that my heater runs less than half as often when my air has been humidified. I just run my drier outlet into the house in the winter though, I hate to waste all of that heat and humidity when it's 11°F outside.

@Toobula 4 месяца назад

I had a large humidifier many years ago that had a towel "loop" on a roller. When it ran, a motor rolled the towel down through the water and up in front of the fan. Extremely effective and it held LOTS of water (days). Yes, you could clean the towel (not really a towel but cloth of some sort). The only problem was that once I set it up too high and at night my setback thermostat let the temperature drop below the dewpoint and it rained inside my house. We woke up wet!

@Tokkemon 3 года назад

"It's brown, and therefore, excellent." Definitely one of the best Alec quotes ever. Right up there with So-ny.

@theramblingnerd723 3 года назад

That immediately struck me. I think you're right.

@TheLegoPerson 3 года назад

Wait, what video is So-ny from? I don't remember that one

@Tokkemon 3 года назад

@@TheLegoPerson CED part 5 I think.

@thomas316 3 года назад

"Brooooooooooooown" - Regular Car Reviews

@deviationblue 3 года назад

The brown video is my favorite of Alec's works

@fell5514 3 года назад

"It's Brown, and therefore, excellent." Technology Connections continues to be a man of refined and elegant taste

@thatguywithabodyoof6248 3 года назад

it's contextual orange tho

@I_Santos_ 3 года назад

I came here as soon as he said it and I wasn’t disappointed.

@Gharcan 3 года назад

This guy and Lindybeige should do a video on the topic of which colour being better: Brown or Beige... I'm sure they could come to an agreement of some sorts ^^

@Silentshot0617 3 года назад

BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN

@Krahazik 3 года назад

with an eye piercing display

@stevenpeck5949 2 года назад

The device you are looking for is a clothes drying rack, what my parents used before we had a clothes dryer (and after too.) FYI If the console ever fails to maintain the desired humidity level, roll it near a hot air furnace vent to improve the rate of evaporation. Be prepared to fill the tank more than once a day. When mine goes dry I fill both the tank and the reservoir!

@hanneswiggenhorn2023 Год назад

But for the desired functionality, you want a clothes drying rack placed in a way that the clothes on top stay wet from another water source, like a bucket or bowl

@atk05003 Год назад

@@hanneswiggenhorn2023 Depending on the height of the drying rack and the type of material, just the one bowl might be enough. If not, some drying racks have parallel rails, so placing a board across higher rails could provide a platform for a second bowl.

@dav786 4 месяца назад

Throughout Europe, drying racks are still super common, more common than dryers. Also in most of Europe, Luft is a thing. We open windows and doors in the house everyday for 10 minutes, no matter if it's summer or winter. This is to reduce mold.

@aidenwilliams5487 Год назад

In your dissection of how to improve upon your humidifier, I reckon rather than add complications like a pump to increase capacity, fine-tuning the wicks to float at near buoyancy might work as a more mechanically simple solution. Like a toilet tank, you could sit the wick on rails and calibrated bouys so it would travel evenly down the water reservoir until emptied. You could probably mock it up with pink insulation foam and some cabinet tracks if you felt so compelled. Thank you as always for an interesting video about things we take for granted!

@hengineer 5 месяцев назад

You could probably use a tank, reservoir system similar to some pet water fountains have.

@AsTheStarsFallDown 3 месяца назад

That may cause a positive feedback loop, though. If the wick dries out, it would become lighter, causing it to sit higher in the water, causing it to get lighter, causing it to sit higher, etc..

@Ashpool37 3 года назад

Not gonna lie, the term "whole-house humidifier" gives me some serious "full bridge rectifier" vibes.

@Tharmin.124 2 года назад

*F U L L B R I D G E R E C T I F I E R*

@Alex-lo6yt 2 года назад

WhOOOOOOOLE hOUSe huMIDIFYAAAA

@calebdrake9953 2 года назад

Electrolux

@calebdrake9953 2 года назад

Wait no Boom !

@Tharmin.124 2 года назад

@@calebdrake9953 Lmao

@erikhansen8291 3 года назад

This man's impression of water glugging at 18:05 is first rate.

@wernerfritsch6436 3 года назад

Yes, how long has he practiced that?

@hassanila 3 года назад

We need bloopers

@mikerichards6065 3 года назад

Worthy of an Emmy at the very least.

@3nertia 3 года назад

Honestly, his sound effect sounded *more* like water "glugging" than the humidifier did!

@sandybeach95 5 месяцев назад

I really appreciate that you explained why the air indoors is so much drier in the winter although the air outdoors might be really humid (>90%). It didn't occur to me that the relative humidity decreases dramatically once the cool outside air is sucked into the home by the ventilation system and heated up to room temperature.

@2024WhatNow Год назад

The Vicks Warm Steam Vaporizer IS an Electrode Boiler. That is why it requires descaling quite often if you have high mineral content in your water. It can also be manually descaled, but the boiler chamber isn't really designed for end user maintenance. If there is too much minerals or salt in your water, this thing will spit water all over the place.

@TomatoBreadOrgasm 3 года назад

"Here's where things get slightly interesting!" Should be a catchphrase on this channel, which I mean in the best way possible.

@moonlad3835 3 года назад

@@egesanl1 old timey *brown font

@harmon802 3 года назад

Came for the interesting, stayed for the slightly interesting!

@Dong_Harvey 3 года назад

That would make it Quite Interesting if it was British

@Zeero3846 3 года назад

@@moonlad3835 *ahem* dark orange

@harrylane4 3 года назад

"Here's where things get slightly interesting!" is a really good tagline for this whole channel

@ArtofRanael 3 года назад

Yes but actually, yes.

@runnerr000 3 года назад

super easy barely an inconvenience ...

@madhououinkyoma Год назад

@@runnerr000 LOL, wrong channel?

@emilymiller7827 Год назад

why is this channel so soothing

@yearofthegarden Год назад

I'be been growing mushrooms for almost a decade now, and they for example require a minimum of about 86% humidity to fruit, and close to 91% to primodia pin. I've used almost every type of humidity, from slashing water on textured ground, to cheap humidifiers, to ultrasonic discs and even low psi high pressure misting pumps. It is a great point to share how the humidity acts between warm and cold weather, which is why I always have a charging room before my grow rooms where I'll have a diy swamp cooler in conjunction with a heater to add some base level humidity, then the air volume gets pushed past the ultrasonic discs to help it effectively add the bulk of the humidity more easily, since mushroom grow rooms need 6 cycles of air per hour, since mushroms breath oxygen and produce carbondioxide that needs to be removed with a fan, which makes holding high humidity hard since it can be so fleeting depending on outdoor temps. Something to consider in regards to limescale in humidifiers, the cheap ones can get clogged if you use it excessively, and the safety off switch when they run out of water can get jammed from the scaling, which causes the device to continue operate even without water. This can cause fires if the device is designed to cool itself with the water in it's reservior, and provides a nice electrical fire smell to watch out for. The best humidiier is an ink bird humidiy meter with a house of hydro 3 disc ultrasonic, in a bucket with a 120cfm CPU fan blowing into it (with a air flow check valvue, aka flap of aluminum) and a timer for 3-4minutes on 6-7min off, this setup will turk a 8x10x8ft room into 86%+ humidity with a 160cfm fan pushing air constantly. I use a float value in there too, and have a flow and psi meter incase a hose breaks

@jojustjo370 3 месяца назад

Year later but still. Since you have experience, how do you deal with minerals in water for ultrasonic humidifier? Noone seems to mention it. Do you use distilate only? Or water softening filter? Or HEPA at the air exit port? Don't you have that "heavy" breathing feeling there when air is full of stuff previously dissolved in water?

@baildude12 2 месяца назад

@@jojustjo370how I deal with it in my ultrasonic humidifier is I prefilter the water through a zerowater filter. Their claims are 0ppm after filtering and project farm reviewed the filter ang got the same results. It's worked great for me so far

@potman4581 3 года назад

"It's brown and, therefore, excellent." Ah, I missed you, Alec.

@nickcarter4006 3 года назад

Excellent advice for buying vintage televisions and hi-if stereos!

@whotookgetinthebag 3 года назад

Imma going to make one that is completely LED blue and has a wood grain LCD display.

@NinJestre 3 года назад

This line just makes me want to see him & Lindybeige together

@jeffc5974 3 года назад

I'm pretty sure it's just dark orange.

@potman4581 3 года назад

@@whotookgetinthebag You, my friend, are a psychopath.

@BestEdmontonMall 3 года назад

The only channel where I would say "Oh! Humidifiers! I gotta watch!", and actually mean it.

@plwadodveeefdv Год назад

Instead of the soap dispenser, you could use a bettix bottle to accurately measure your dosage each time. These are commonly used by brewers and aquarium owners. Many people may have seen a similar concept to these with mouthwash bottles marketed for kids. You squeeze the bottle and liquid flows up to where it can be measured. This can then be dispensed by pouring out.

@Jake-bt7ig Год назад

The mist ones which throw minerals can also throw sodium into your air. I had one for a while and all the natural gas flames in the house turned orange. A lighter inside and outside indicated it was in the air and not the gas, so a little armature spectroscopy let me work out sodium with my HPS lamp as a reference. That was a satisfying day.

@pickledfur Год назад

Use pure distilled water, that way there won't be any minerals in it.

@Cobalt985 11 месяцев назад

@@pickledfur spotted the cheese grater connoisseur

@pickledfur 11 месяцев назад

@@Cobalt985 :]

@fackloar 5 месяцев назад

Is it bad for you to have sodium in the air?

@JoranGroothengel 4 месяца назад

@@fackloar The main problem is that all of the minerals in the water that evaporates will turn into dust, very very small dust at that. It might be fine, it might depend on the specific minerals in your water, or it might just be a big problem. All the studies so far mainly seem to point out that, yes, if you use an ultrasonic humidifier with tap water you get a massive increase in very small dust particles in the air. It's problem a good idea to stick to the safe side and either not use ultrasonic humidifiers, or use them with demineralised water. Keep in mind, this isn't the same as water-softening, some water softening systems still leave plenty of minerals in the water, just not the ones that cause scale.

@polygondwanaland8390 3 года назад

"IT'S BROWN, AND THEREFORE, EXCELLENT" Technology Connections, the American James May

@StudioBrock1337 3 года назад

Actually though James is the one who owns all the bright coloured cars, wears super bright running shoes, and is Captain Slow. They're kind of opposites who both really love how things work. :P Also I'd love to see them do a show together, talking about camping stoves, or wind mill turbines, or ball bearings or something. Would be excellent.

@mattvw9287 3 года назад

Oh man, this one got me good.

@MarioDiNicola 3 года назад

Came for this comment

@dregenius 3 года назад

YES. YES, YES YES.

@lefear2 3 года назад

I think he meant to say dark orange

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic 3 года назад

“it’s blue. Why is it blue?” Yes, damn it, WHY?!? There goes your night vision, and it’s straining on the eyes. It’s like they get the blue LEDs for free and a subsidy for every LED they can cram into their product.

@KairuHakubi 3 года назад

I believe blue LEDs were the hardest to produce, and the most expensive for a while. That's why they're slingshotting to using them constantly now that they're finally cheap and available. That and most people like blue best. As far as I'm concerned, the problem's the intensity

@robertbackhaus8911 3 года назад

It is their higher voltage drop. This helps with the design. They want to control those 14 LEDs using the fewest umber of processor pins, so they can use the cheapest little micro controller. Today's microcontrollers can set their pins to three states - high or on, low or off, and as an input, which lets the pin float to any value. They can use these three states to make a small number of pins control a large number of LEDs, using something called tri-state multiplexing or charlieplexing. Look it up, but the key point here is that you need the voltage to make the LEDs you are using to turn on to be more than half the voltage of the processor. This is important because charlieplexing will, to light various single LEDs, often end up putting power across two other LEDs in series. If the voltage drop was low, those two would also light up. Processors generally run on 5 volts, and blue LEDs need 3 volts to turn on. 2 blue LEDs in series would need 6 volts to turn on, so there's no problem. Red, amber and green LEDs run on 1 to 2 volts. If a product wants to use other coloured LEDs, they would use a blue or even a near ultra-violet LED to pump a coloured phosphor. But this is more expensive. So blue LEDs are used because, for the design, they are cheapest.

@KairuHakubi 3 года назад

@@robertbackhaus8911 Fascinating, thank you!

@Roalethiago 3 года назад

Unfortunately it's cheaper to build, and since i can't read anything in bright blue (seriously, i have a clock with a blue 7 segment display only for show bcouse its just impossible for me to read), i really miss the old red leds on stuff...

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic 3 года назад

@@Roalethiago Red lenses were used by the military for flash lights, since red light damages one's "night vision" (natural ability to see in the dark with minimal light, anyways) less than other colors, and blue light has been proven to stimulate the brain and hinder the release of melatonin (a chemical that helps you sleep). I'm totally down with "vintage" red on every LED. 👍

@Kumofan Год назад

When you use something sometimes advertised as an air cooler to make your heated air more comfortable in the winter, you know you’re living the life

@googiegress7459 Год назад

[PHOTO OF DICAPRIO TOASTING AND WINKING]

@Writer10389 Год назад

also, I read an article a week or so ago that said: new research might show that dry, cold air negatively impacts the native microbe flora in our noses, making it easier for pathogens to get into our bodies and make us ill. I didn't read the study myself but this would definitely make sense to me! Yay humidifiers

@icebearisicebear 3 года назад

11:20 No, it’s not brown. It’s orange with context.

@sivalley 3 года назад

Nice throwback. 😎

@cezarcatalin1406 3 года назад

Not fair ! You changed the output colour by observing its context !

@OrangeC7 3 года назад

As someone who would have no bias towards this issue, I approve the decision to rename "brown" to "orange with context"

@renagonpoi5747 3 года назад

@@OrangeC7 but isn't orange just brown without context?

@iCarus_A 3 года назад

@@renagonpoi5747 brown without context is orange, but orange can remain orange regardless of context, so no

@uberchemist 3 года назад

"It's brown, and therefore, excellent." I love this channel

@jarskiXD 3 года назад

BBC

@brancaleone8895 3 года назад

oh you mean darker orange?

@lotharbeck71 3 года назад

"This is John... I mean... The Wick."

@Fragffs 3 года назад

As soon as i saw it's color i knew he would say something about it. Really like this humor.

@untyrhallsprung569 Год назад

I have an amazing air humidifier too. It's called a laundry rack, and it saves energy on both drying the laundry and humidifying the air! Neat!

@monkey_man70-1 4 месяца назад

The fact that you called out the bright-ass LED display lights got me instantly to subscribe. Drives me insane, I feel like a crazy person putting tape on all my electronic devices just so they stop using up my brain's attention pointlessly.

@ryankohnenkamp8946 3 года назад

7:46 "I've apparently uncovered something of a mist-ery" I see what you did there...

@tiavor 3 года назад

"adding salt" was a dead giveaway that it's an electrode boiler.

@xiro6 3 года назад

it have two carbon rods with electricity running from one to the other by the salty water.

@puckcat22679 3 года назад

Anyone here a fan of DiodeGoneWild? MORE SAAAAALT!

@xiro6 3 года назад

@@puckcat22679 its the method used for maintaining the swimming pools,you add table salt,apply the electrical current by electrodes,and voila,you chlorinated water NaCl + H2O + ENERGY → NaOCl + H2 they also used it to produce sodium hypochlorite from seawater.

@mysock351C 3 года назад

Yes it is from the owners manual. I have to go buy one, now. "Mooorreee SAAAALLLLTT"

@bcubed72 3 года назад

So basically, a "stinger" heater, like convicts make with an extension cord?

@indyola9738 Год назад

I had a friend with an expensive Schimmel piano. The room where it was kept had a humidifier and a dehumidifier. That humidifier was a console with a large, slowly spinning, perforated disk. It had one side basically summerged and rotated as a fan blew on it. It reminded me of a small-holed of an old-fashioned bubble blowing machine. It seemed to work very quickly.

@price.gaines 2 месяца назад

I recently moved from the very rainy Portland area to the mountains of the BC interior. I was not prepared for how dry the winter would be. We managed to find a steal of a deal on a lightly-used Honeywell single [large] room unit, and while the proprietary wicks are ridiculously expensive, they don’t need to be replaced very often because the humidifier has a genius feature: a UV bulb that sits over the water pool just before the wick! It never gets musty, and the wick only develops very faint mildewy smell after a couple months of daily use. You can really only smell it if you bring it right up to your nose, and a good rinse will almost completely get the smell out. I love this thing, it’s so low maintenance and easily keeps our bedroom at 50-60% with the door cracked open.

@MolecularArts 3 года назад

“Quicklier” “Simulated wood-grain excellence”

@marwinthedja5450 3 года назад

Must be Americanish English ;)

@aguyandhiscomputer 3 года назад

I was looking for this comment. Quicklier?!?

@mattmguitar 3 года назад

"Quicklier" is my second-favorite comparative adverbjective. My favorite adverbjective is "Easilier."

@witnessingdaily4327 3 года назад

Wordreference . Com says it's not a Word. Every other website says "it is but isn't".

@XzantozX 3 года назад

Ladies and gentlemen and whoever in between, we have reached Clark Kent levels of hair styling in this one.

@m.degroot6837 3 года назад

Only Clark Kent wears glasses.

@YounesLayachi 3 года назад

@@m.degroot6837 well ok this is superman.

@YounesLayachi 3 года назад

Superman in brown suit

@WastedMeerkat1 3 года назад

I was literally about to comment how great his hair looks in this video

@rutgerb 3 года назад

I think his mom did his hair ;D

@pumpkinpie7254 2 года назад

Absolutely enjoy your videos ... You make your viewers easily understand how “ stuff “ works ... You’re a rockstar of technology and I’m happy to be a subscriber .

@moos5221 Год назад

When the air is too dry I take a shower.

@kelikelvin 3 года назад

That 3 gallon AirCare humidifier is now trending on home depot LOL

@jimjab3631 2 года назад

Airfare is spewing mold

@aaron5847 3 года назад

"That's why they call it John!" I had to pause there cause I was dying at that joke.

@mayonnaise_pillar 3 года назад

just don't kill its dog or it's gonna kill your entire neighbourhood

@josephgauthier5018 3 года назад

OH MY GOD!!! that joke went miles over my head XD. so glad i saw your comment lol

@Fragger-1 17 дней назад

It's funny to me that the episodes on basic household items, which are almost certainly for tax purposes (which is pretty smart), become some of the most interesting content that this channel produces. Microwaves, toasters, coffemakers, heaters, and humidifiers are all fascinating.

@JFMNBright 4 месяца назад

I did the “wet towel” budget humidifier once when I didn’t have access to a real one - it worked like a charm! Though it required hanging three damp bath towels in a small room…definitely a “cheapskate college kid” solution, but it’s vindicating to see the same thing recommended here!

@vordevan258 3 года назад

“I traveled to the exotic lands of, Walmart” It really feels that way sometimes

@yankeeclipper4326 3 года назад

Its like a safari full of strange evolutionary dead ends.

@sOriginalMan-bw8de 3 года назад

Outside my house is exotic lands

@chili42us 3 года назад

"And the fan makes this go even quicklier". You sir, are a treasure.

@DennisSantos Год назад

Surprised you never mentioned those big consoles, similar in appearance to your brown one. These had a rotating drum with wicking material around it's circumference which dipped in water and the fan... etc, again like your brown one. I remember seeing a few of these in Canadian homes with electric baseboard heating in the 70's.

@theburrowrises8549 Год назад

My grandma had one of those

@battleforevermore Год назад

"Its brown and therefore excellent"

@erinhawkins1950 Год назад

we used to have one of those in our kitchen when I was young.... I wish I could get one now. And the drum is a much better way than a pump because the whole bottom was full of water. My mom would just dump a bucket of water into the thing every once in a while.

@tjmpls4905 2 месяца назад

I had one of those years ago and really miss it. Didn't have to buy expensive wicks every year and the wicking material was easy to clean. Progress.

@Faithful_Tribe Год назад

Your cube wall is inspiring. I imagine bringing in an air hose + attachment to pneumatically ‘dust’.

@andspenrob 3 года назад

Nice evaporators will have a couple features these lack: 1) a shallow trough just high enough for the wick to draw from rather than a big basin (reduces "unusable" water volume) 2) a UV light which will sterilize the water in the trough to keep it sanitary for longer periods

@andspenrob 3 года назад

@@toastedbuuns13 The one I have is a small (one-room) model. Honeywell HCM-350. (out-of-=stock currently?) www.honeywellstore.com/store/products/honeywell-uv-cool-moisture-germ-free-humidifier-black-hcm-350b.htm

@TDREXrx9 3 года назад

yeah I use A huge one for my house and use RODI water with it but always add anti bacteria stuff because that stuff is a breading ground but not as bad as the real ultra sonics.

@CleverClothe 3 года назад

@@andspenrob I have that one and I can recommend it. I live in Seattle and it has plenty of capability to keep a 800 sq ft condo comfortable in our weather.

@MagicznaPanda 3 года назад

UV lights are off dubious efficacy. The problem is that they can't really work once there's a buildup of limescale. So you still need to clean it regularly (once every 3 days or so). The nice thing about HCM-350 is that many of the parts are dishwasher safe, so it makes it easier to clean. There's some pricier humidifiers that require much less frequent cleaning thanks to additives, like the Venta LW15/25. Generally speaking, evaporative humidifiers are going to be easier to clean - but ultrasonic ones can humidify quicker - whereas most evaporative ones have the advantage of staying at 40-60% (ideally you prob. want 50).

@johnpossum556 3 года назад

@@toastedbuuns13 I got a taotronics that cost about $50 that uses a sonic disc to put the water out. Output is seriously large, like a gallon in a couple of hours. It has changed my life! I usually had once side of my nasal passages clogged all my life until now.

@mattp.158 3 года назад

"Light dim decal" is a product I didn't know existed and now urgently need.

@300DBenz 3 года назад

They are amazing, last week I put them on all the LED and lit LCDs in my bedroom and that night I had the best sleep I’ve had in a long time. Fell asleep faster.

@dsp4392 Год назад

Got into the humidifier game last year and ended up getting a SmartMi. It's a 4L "smart" model. The nice thing about it is that it doesn't even use wicks. Instead there's a few dozens textured solid plastic discs rotating in the reservoir. The discs pull the water in front of the fan which proceeds to evaporate it. Power consumption is great too: about 8W over 12h to go through the reservoir, or roughly 91Wh/gallon. Very quiet too. The reservoir is one large, square bucket with little to no crannies and nooks, so it is very easy to clean, and the discs can be simply popped into the dishwasher (or hand scrubbed). I also really like the minimal aesthetics of the product. Venta makes similar products, although some of their models have filters and "hygiene discs" that need frequent replacing, and Desert Spring manufactures a Furnace Humidifier, also disc-based and meant to be attached to central HVAC.

@Kitabo27 Год назад

Just got theBrown Aircare Large Console you highlighted in this video! They have completely redesigned the interior. I am certain it is because of this video. No longer any tank… 4 wicks and two fans side by side. Even the Blue LED is not very bright! Well Done!

@Turbine2k5 3 года назад

11:45 "...with simulated wood grain excellence." *Clint Basinger has entered the chat*

@rob5300 3 года назад

LGR also joined the chat

@danem2215 3 года назад

That's who LGR is, Robert

@AntonWongVideo 3 года назад

"Man's greatest enemy is not the devil nor even man, himself, but those darn blue LEDs in home humidifiers" -Kierkegaard (probably)

@RailBuffRob 3 года назад

At least it's not as bad as it used to be, when blue LEDs first hit the market manufacturers would put them in everything, often it wasn't an indicator or anything it was just a random bright blue light just for the sake of having a random bright blue light

@Entropy67 3 года назад

@@RailBuffRob so basically every one if my arduino projects? hehe blue light shiny....

@AddlerMartin 3 года назад

I had a guitar pedal with a blue LED that did illuminate my face on stage very brightly

@gavincurtis 3 года назад

@@RailBuffRob I was in Europe in a nice hotel.... the stupid internet TV box... Superbright white LED was ON when in standby. It would turn OFF when the unit was on. 25,000 MCD 10 degree dispersion ice white LED to light up the room at night.

@mattbartley2843 3 года назад

In a previous job we often tested (TV) set-top boxes. One of them we were working on for a while had a tiny surface-mount blue LED. It was so bright that we'd tape over it so we didn't get after-images looking anywhere near it. Between the common super bright LEDs and the common LEDs that are *on* when the unit is *off* and vice-versa - who came up with that anyway?

@js5018 Год назад

That whole house humidifier is very similar to the one I have, albeit a bit newer, and mine has two water tanks. Same brand too. Pretty cool to have a detailed description of how it works! I have to change my wicks every two months because of the poor quality water around my community. Even with filters and water softeners, it gets nasty and smells like a literal swamp in a couple months. I thought about installing a humidifier with my new furnace but I was worried about mold in my HVAC system.

@bobjeaniejoey 2 года назад

Years ago, I added a small fountain pump to my circa 1990's Kenmore tabletop evaporative humidifier, with tubing leading to small nozzles distributed across the top of the pad. It makes no additional noise at all and boosted the output of the unit by a factor of about four. Amazingly high output. It also has had the added benefit of keeping the entire pad constantly wet, completely eliminating the buildup of minerals on the pad. Unfortunately, most tabletop models don't have a sufficiently deep or accessible sump to accommodate such a retrofit. I also set the humidistat to have it run constantly from fall until spring. Where I live, 24/7 run time is needed to maintain 50% RH in the winter months.

@clarasnyder7372 3 года назад

"they call it John...I'm sorry, the wick"

@kazlaz4991 3 года назад

finally someone note the joke

@nthgth 3 года назад

Surprised he didn't tie it to the recently mentioned "matrix"

@Dawad2007 2 года назад

Yeah I know right

@abdelnajjar8191 3 года назад

The blue light display tangent resonated with me, and i'm glad someone feels the same way. It deserves a whole video.

@TH3C001 2 года назад

And that little piece of like static-cling window tint he applied, made it look so much better!

@abmoore06 2 года назад

Even worse for clocks. You have to go out of your way to get one with dull red light instead of the bright blue that lights up your entire town.

@Mayaman67 2 года назад

Here in SE Asia many air conditioning units have the bright light. I can't sleep. Blu Tac helps

@spacecaptain9188 2 года назад

Same! I cover all of the lights with electrical tape. I set humidity based on comfort, so I don't need to see the number at all.

@Lem_On_Lime 2 года назад

Blue LED's are the worst.

@APatchworkCanvas Год назад

I bought a version of the console humidifier like yours. My rh was 16%!!! I’ve had this humidifier running on high speed for a few hours and already has the first floor up to 40%. I imagine all of the wood work and floors, piano, and guitars will soak up the moisture, so I set it to 55%. After a week or so I’ll set it to 45%. Thank you!

@PCRage2000 Год назад

I love your videos and the amount of effort you put into each one. I really appreciate all your hard work. Thank you for being you.

@dmitch1983 3 года назад

Currently watching this while I fill my pre wash detergent compartment on my dishwasher. Love how informative your channel is

@jessicaa.6690 2 года назад

Lol, I saw that video, too. I've been telling everyone that complains about their dishwasher that using the "pods" doesn't work as well because there is nothing for the prewash. I love this channel.

@k4x4map46 2 года назад

omg so am I LOL

@rachelt2415 2 года назад

It takes 30 min to fill your detergent how many dishes are you doing?

@yeetboi7694 2 года назад

@@rachelt2415 he didn't watch the latest video about too much detergent apparently

@blakksheep736 3 месяца назад

@@rachelt2415 😆

@Ziferten 3 года назад

"To my fellow Midwesterners, Menards..." Hey, he really is one of us!

@Studio23Media 3 года назад

He knew exactly where he was going with that before he said it. 😂

@keiffitz689 3 года назад

Ope™

@Lawrence330 3 года назад

I lived in the Midwest my whole life, or up until a couple years ago, and we NEVER had a Menards. My grandma's town had one, so I knew of Menards, but we didn't have one within 100 miles. I recently went to visit my parents, now they have 2, 2!

@Ziferten 3 года назад

@@keiffitz689 Spotted the Minnesotan / Wisconsinite!

@DraxTrac 3 года назад

I'm surprised that they opened up locations in my state, West Virginia.

@crazycarl76 2 месяца назад

Somehow, whenever I get curious about how something works I always find a video here on this channel. Thank you

@lookingglass3626 Год назад

seeing that brown "console" humidifier brought back all kinds of memories from my grandmother's house. I can't seem to find images online of anything similar or remember if it was a humidifier or dehumidifier. I just remember it was really long, rectangular, had some kind of wood grain exterior pattern, and had water and big rotating drum/wheel on the inside.

@saladgreens912 2 года назад

A 3d printer would be a great investment for this channel. Being able to test theories could be valuable for content.

@KlaytonCavalcante 2 года назад

I recently bought a humidifier from AirCare, mostly because of this video, and it looks like someone there watched this video. Most complaints seems to be fixed. It uses a green, less bright display, has a function to run until the water is over (and warns about it on the display) and the entire upper part goes off for cleaning. =D Not perfect but it got better, in my opinion. The model I bought is the AIRCARE MA1201. Thanks for all the information in this video. It helped me a lot since I recently moved to Canada and where I came from we never need a humidifier and I had no idea which one would be a good fit for me.

@Demonslayer20111 2 года назад

It wouldnt supruse me if this is a parts bin special product made of things they already have a stock of in the factory

@beautheawesome Год назад

@TheOgi22 2 года назад

Great video. You explained beautifully. I understood a few new things. Well thank you. I put a wet towel on the radiator. I fill him with water every night. It will start to stink over time, but if it's just the smell that gets into the air and not the bacteria, it's okay for me. I plan to make a plastic band that I hang on the radiator. The more bandas, or larger bandas, the more moisture and regulates itself according to humidity.

@neillynch_ecocidologist 3 месяца назад

I watched half of this, realised I'd just bought a DEhumidifier, and knew I should probably should watching as I was learning too many unnecessary things. This guy's brilliant! :D

@TheAnoniemo 3 года назад

Here in the Netherlands older homes have porcelain water containers hanging on the radiators, which you fill with water so it evaporates when the heating is on. They're pretty old fashioned, but have the advantage of having no moving parts or maintenance. Plus they often have some classy drawing on them, as old porcelain does.

@jinbee2627 3 года назад

An aunt of mine used to have those here in the UK too.

@epowell4211 3 года назад

sounds lovely

@sinokoperkowa 3 года назад

In Poland you can buy them still in many hardware stores.

@penguincpickles225 3 года назад

My dad, here in the US, had a portable radiator, he just stuck an old pot filled with water on it.

@Niklas_J_L 3 года назад

Now I want one to complement my tulip vase. Are the water containers also white and blue? (Is all white and blue called Delft porcelain?)

@NotRealNamesAgain 3 года назад

This is one of my favorite "the boss is out" at-work channels. Best part: Boss knows, doesn't care.

@sebastianmuller1210 3 года назад

Seems to make a great difference if you watch videos or work...

@a3vus Год назад

that dimming decal looks so incredibly good I can't believe it isn't on it by default...

@AlexDiamantopulo 5 месяцев назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH! For including metric system (Celsius in this case) in your videos.

@Adalore 3 года назад

The bright LEDs are my bane, I have masking tape over every source I can manage in my living space.

@FoulOwl2112 3 года назад

Lol. I thought l had to be the only sane person to do that! Being that you're clearly of a kindred spirit I'll even share my "generation 2.o version" of our masking tape hack. Instead of JUST tape, I've started adding the little colored paper adhesive sticker labels that are for pricing your stuff at yard sales. You can experiment with different combinations of colored stickers to balance out what is usually a horrible color in LED bulbs. A little masking tape, a couple of red stickers, a yellow and an orange one here and there.... And voila! I've actually got a pleasantly warm LED light.

@realjordanbelfort 3 года назад

FoulOwl ive taken stuff apart and crushed the bulbs

@kirkjones9445 3 года назад

I bought a roll of 5% window tint and put that over them. Some sources I put 2 layers on.

@spartan117zm 3 года назад

My computer case has a bright white LED behind the power switch that is only on when the computer is on. The case also has a tempered glass panel on the side and vents in the front and back that you can see through. So let that sink in. Apparently, that bright LED is the only way I could ever possibly tell that my computer is on. Certainly not the fact that I can literally see the fan running and the other lights inside the case come on. I’ve had that power light long since covered with a piece of electrical tape, as I’ll usually leave my computer running overnight to render/upload stuff.

@Adalore 3 года назад

@@spartan117zm There is a couple power indicators inside the case of mine. on the motherboard. at least I was able to turn off the RGB lights in bios for when the machine is powered down but plugged in.

@lonniemcclure4538 5 месяцев назад

A plus to the boiler type is that if one is already using electric heat, the unit is just another source of heat. For my home, the best solution I found was a combination cold/warm mist humidifier. To avoid white dust without having to purchase distilled water, I fill it using water from a Zero Water filter pitcher. (Unlike most filter pitchers, the filter for those removes dissolved solids).

@bobbysenterprises3220 Год назад

I put one on our forced air furnace. 10/10 would recommend. It's a box that goes between the intake and hot air side of the furnace. It has a honeycomb wick that the water trickles down over. Any water that isn't evaporated drains out the bottom. Thus not harboring mold dust etc. It has a electronic hydrostat as well as a air valve. So you can control when it runs and how much moisture it adds. Sounds even more simple than a stand alone unit. One moving part is the 24 volt water solenoid I also built one of the spot humidifiers with a bucket, an aquarium water pump, a 120mm computer fan, and a off the shelf humidifier pad for a furnace. Water tickles down the wik and to the bottom and back up. Works great for the area our orchids are in.

@StickyBit7777 3 года назад

"even quicklier" my new favorite phrase!

@wompastompa3692 2 года назад

>go to friend's house >he has a humidifier >pour 2-liter of root beer in it >leave

@caedisnightingale5575 2 года назад

Evil

@deltab9768 2 года назад

Once upon a time I saw a question on Yahoo Answers. "What would happen if I peed in a humidifier?"

@grahamfisher5436 2 года назад

@@caedisnightingale5575 Evil...Genius

@lapis8183 2 года назад

@@deltab9768 Unus Annus pee sauna

@shawn576 Год назад

@@deltab9768 "this room suddenly smells like my girlfriend's house"

@MathematicPony 3 месяца назад

Gotta say, as someone who DID grow up in an arid desert, bless swamp coolers! I fondly remember the huge window unit we had. Also remember being a kid and noticing how poorly it worked when it did rain -- love those early science lessons learned through living!

@davidarroyo4237 Год назад

Thanks for letting hear the message about needing to be more conscious of air quality in the indoor spaces.

@davidcookmfs6950 3 года назад

When I was little, we heated our house with wood stoves, so there were cast iron kettles simmering on the stove for this purpose.

@michael-ib3kk 3 года назад

We still use them.

@lanapowell 2 года назад

We used cake or roasting pans set on the wood stove :)

@nate8088 3 года назад

".... more sensible humidifier manufacturers call this... John." Oy.... :D That actually did make me snort.

@zyansheep 3 года назад

I am now henceforth going to call my humidifier "John in a Box"

@666Tomato666 3 года назад

I'm gonna call my Babayaga

@pmccraken Год назад

Brilliant vid. Clear, informative and amusing. You're a great host - I'd watched the whole thing before I knew it.

@pyrofful 5 месяцев назад

I live in Wisconsin and love that we get a taste of all seasons. With that said I always need to use hand lotion in winter because of cracked hands. Although I recently got a dog so maybe for his sake I will finally breakdown and buy one for us. Never knew there was so many things to know about humidifiers! Thanks for the info!

@rubysky5359 3 года назад

cool, but when can we expect a dehumidifier episode coming out? I'd love to hear you ramble about those!

@harpingon 3 года назад

Running the two devices next to each other is a recipe for all kinds of WINNING

@diegosanchez894 3 года назад

Thunderfoot bursts through the door "NOT! ENERGY! EFFICIENT!!!!!!".

@diegosanchez894 3 года назад

@@harpingon Wireless (or pipeless?) water transmission: it's wifi, for water!!

@girishradhakrishnan2699 3 года назад

@@diegosanchez894 hahahahahaha

@volcimaster 2 года назад

"even more quicklier" I have a feeling we'd get along great in person

@AdamWutke 2 года назад

I'm behind by 2 months, but oh well. I had to stop the video because I couldn't hear it over my own laughter when he said that.

@SushiLady 2 года назад

I have had issues maintaining humidifiers for years, I put a fan/bowl of water/towel set up like yours and bam! No more humidifier issues. It's clean, no particle dust, no mold or bacteria issues, no difficulty cleaning hard to reach crevices. Just clean the bowl and wash the towel. My moisture loving ADHD self thanks you.

@gibbo1112 Год назад

21:34 This design was described to me by my grandfather as a "bush fridge" for keeping food cool while camping! Just rigging up a square frame of sticks and hanging hessian across the top and down the sides into a supply of water with whatever you want to keep cool hanging inside.

@z-beeblebrox 3 года назад

The fight against blue LEDs is more of an uphill battle than you think - these things are so popular, they won their own Nobel prize in physics.

@Aomicplane 3 года назад

It annoys the piss out of me. And it's not even particularly the fact that every appliance manafacturer uses blue leds, but the fact that they're always overly bright and not diffused at all. Some of them are even straight light beams for god's sake... What happened to the days that electronic manafacturers just put normal, nicely diffused led's that just emit enough light to be seen when looked at and not light up any objects in the dark? They're purpose is serve as status indicators for a product, not to be meant for some kind of light show for christ's sake...

@z-beeblebrox 3 года назад

@@Aomicplane It's not for lack of complaint, that's for sure. People have been complaining about overly bright blue light indicators on electronics for quite literally the entire 21st century.

@Aomicplane 3 года назад

@@z-beeblebrox Blue LEDs are usually the worst offenders, but these days they even use other color LEDs that can be as offensively bright. I recently got a coffee machine as a gift, which has both a green LED and red LED. These LEDs are of the SMD kind and are covered by a transparent piece of plastic with 0 diffusing. These literally light the whole kitchen and even part of the living room when the lights are out. Seriously how hard is it for manafacturers to spend like 1 or 2 dollars more on either decent diffusing, a LED which is by itself already diffused (these are actually purposely made to be used as status lights) or if they really want to be cost-saving just a proper resistor?

@patricktrudeau1996 3 года назад

@@Aomicplane Cost efficient circuit design is actually why they are using such strong SMD LEDs. If they used a weaker LED they would need much more robust AC to DC circuitry, especially in the case of a mains device that does not require a lot of DC power (sub 200ma). Cheap buck transformers tend to flicker LEDs at very low currents, even more so on 7 Segment displays (due to the variability of current draw depending on the lit segments). The solution to the induced common ground noise/spurious conduction is simple, yet costly on an economy of scale. You'd have to add at least a few resistors and relays, and then, most importantly, deal with the heat generated. This also would involve additional lot testing, different enclosure and PCB specs. Hence, just make that LED "soak" all the current it can to lessen the possibility of flicker, generated heat, and use less components in the process.

@jrstf 3 года назад

@@patricktrudeau1996 - I'm not buying any of that difficulty of design. I believe the super bright LEDs are used because the stuff is coming from China and there is no feedback from consumer to manufacturer.

@Robbie06261995 3 года назад

"I had a bit of an Epiphany in recent days." Yeah it was January 6th. You think they'd have a stand alone evaporative humidifier with the ability to be hooked up to supply water, but I guess that starts to get into the realm of those installed ones.

@DconBlueZ Год назад

When this video was released last winter I created a home-made humidifier with a tub of water, a 15" piece of wire shelving that holds a terrycloth hand towel, and a small space heater set on low fan with high temperature so it runs continuously. Worked great then and I just set it up again yesterday, working great again, has put about 2 gallons in the air in 24 hours. Not even worried about the electricity the fan uses because as you pointed out in a video on space heaters, they are 100% efficient. The energy's not wasted because I'm heating the house anyway. Thanks for your content, I always enjoy watching and often learn something useful!

@joshuasilker8241 10 месяцев назад

Ngl, the “it’s brown and therefore excellent” comment caught me off guard and had me chuckling for a solid minute. As a fellow midwesterner who has wrestled with the ultrasonic and boil-ey small humidifiers for years, I will be gleefully taking your advice this winter. Great video!

@specialopsdave 3 года назад

I live in the Western Rockies, on the line where it becomes technically desert, and the indoor humidity stays at 15% year-round My grandparents heat their house with a wood stove, so they just put a pot of water on a brick on top of it to humidify their house

@xmtxx 3 года назад

And if the pot drip, you can call it a sauna :D

@mikep3226 3 года назад

I do this as well. Here in Rural Vermont it's called a "Yankee Humidifier".

@hayaokakizaki4463 3 года назад

"This is why it's called John. Sorry, the wick"

@markwright3161 3 года назад

I was very slow with that one before this comment. :) . . . To be fair though, I am awful with names. :)

@quinn799 5 месяцев назад

I have an essential oil diffuser. It is filled with water with a couple of drops of oil added. Sometimes I run it with plain water and it just diffuses water into the air for me! Super convenient, and looks nice too!

@kingkei639 11 месяцев назад

14:24 I love how much this improves the display

@ianmoore322 3 года назад

"An idiot admires complexity, while a genius appreciates simplicity" - Terry A. Davis

@someweeb3650 3 года назад

Average complexity fan vs average simplicity enjoyer

@CubicApocalypse128 3 года назад

This comment glows.

@manaman9625 3 года назад

Man i miss Terry. An unfortunate story for a true genius

@TANMAN9095 3 года назад

So your saying, Idiots admire women?

@ianmoore322 3 года назад

@@TANMAN9095 Well yes if you think about it.

@jinxhijinx1768 3 года назад

1:47 "more sensible humidifier manufacturers call it, *John*- sorry, the *wick*." very clever.

@randywatson8347 3 года назад

😂

@SupernovaSpence 3 года назад

"Did you just make a John... Wick... joke? Haha" That's what I posted. Glad someone else caught it haha

@NightMotorcyclist 3 года назад

Damp Wick... kinda has the same ring to it. He will moisturize you before killing you.

@UpperAquatics 11 месяцев назад

I really love this channel. Its a deep dive into shower thoughts. Thank you for your hard work!

@HxTurtle Год назад

wait a second. I love this channel so much because it's one rare gem where the presenter just always gets it right; but I think, I did spot some minor incorrectness: it's called relative humidity not because it's relative to the human body, or something, but simply because it's relative to the current temperature. it's not an absolute value .. you charge the temperature and humidity will change as well despite the exact same amount of water dissolved into the air .. hence, "relative."