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cands wrote:

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.

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.

The only way this could have any effect is using passive humidification with the setting 'off'.

cands wrote:

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.

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.

The only way this could have any effect is using passive humidification with the setting 'off'.

Uncle_Bob wrote:

cands wrote:

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.

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.

The only way this could have any effect is using passive humidification with the setting 'off'.

Passive humidification is what I am using, no heat for the chamber.