Possible scam?

[Cpapian]

I have wondered why I haven't noticed the awful smell others complain of. My humidity is set to auto. I wonder if the device adjusts to the lack of water before the scorching.

[Pugsy]

I have wondered why I haven't noticed the awful smell others complain of. My humidity is set to auto. I wonder if the device adjusts to the lack of water before the scorching.

No. It has no way of knowing how much water is in the water chamber.
I think a lot of factors have to come together before the smell gets really awful. I have experienced the bad smell and also not experienced it with a dry water chamber.
I suspect how long it stays dry is a factor, what the heater is doing (low setting vs high setting) is also a factor...and very possibly just how sensitive our nose might be at that time also.

[D.H.]

Really you'd have to show an injury, not just "it smells burning."

BTW, the heat really should cut off if there's not enough water.

[Cpapian]

I have wondered why I haven't noticed the awful smell others complain of. My humidity is set to auto. I wonder if the device adjusts to the lack of water before the scorching.

No. It has no way of knowing how much water is in the water chamber.
I think a lot of factors have to come together before the smell gets really awful. I have experienced the bad smell and also not experienced it with a dry water chamber.
I suspect how long it stays dry is a factor, what the heater is doing (low setting vs high setting) is also a factor...and very possibly just how sensitive our nose might be at that time also.

Oh well ..... I can sleep through smoke detectors, 60% leakage, husband acting out his dreams, cats on my chest ..... why not a bad smell. I wonder if the smell of freshly brewing coffee would wake me up ....... hummmmm

[Legrunt]

I don't get the burning plastic smell thingy... Mine just runs out of water and cuts off the heat. If I sleep for more than 8 hours, I am guaranteed a dry tank, so I run mine dry almost every weekend.
I don't smell anything, just wake up with a drier than normal throat.

Perhaps there exists some machines with a temp sensor thats faulty, but I really cannot imagine any machine designed that way from the start.

[chunkyfrog]

I think I know what I have smelled, and why.
I do not compulsively clean my tank daily, weekly, or even monthly.
(Only when I see "floaters" . . . )
Traces of nature are almost always present in my tank.
Full tank--nothing detectable.
Nearly empty--the funk is concentrated enough so it assails my old nose.
Hey, I garden; there is nothing that has not been all over my flippers.
And I am still alive!

[Bookbear]

I usually smell something "off" slightly before the tank goes dry.
It tends to wake me up--most unpleasantly.

I hate the smell of burning metal in the morning......

[Keeska]

I've had a few occurrences of that acrid smell waking me up. I've had to turn the humidifier setting down so the water lasts all night. Grrr…. I just hate that smell!

[chunkyfrog]

I just wake up and add water.
My "pipes" need moisture--especially since they are rationing the senior flu vaccine.

[Goofproof]

I usually smell something "off" slightly before the tank goes dry.
It tends to wake me up--most unpleasantly.

I hate the smell of burning metal in the morning......

"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know .

I miss my morning Napalm. Jim

[ragtopcircus]

I have never run a tank dry (yet), but I do sometimes get a strong whiff of warm (not burned) plastic when I first turn the air on.

[Bookbear]

"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
I miss my morning Napalm. Jim

^5's to Jim for getting the reference!
Mark

[BrianMoser]

To be honest, it's more looks like spam thank scam. Just improve the registration process with few anti-spam technologies, I guess it must affect such posts

[prodigyplace]

To be honest, it's more looks like spam thank scam. Just improve the registration process with few anti-spam technologies, I guess it must affect such posts

If you have concrete suggestions, please private message Pugsy or Carolyn

[zonker]

To be honest, it's more looks like spam thank scam. Just improve the registration process with few anti-spam technologies, I guess it must affect such posts

can you be a little more vague?