Vornado EV100 Evaporative Whole Room Humidifier with SimpleTank, 1 Gallon Capacity, White

It just works. No fuss.
This type of humidifier works on a very basic principle, and as such it’s a very simple device. It’s a bowl of water with a sponge and a fan. The humidistat is the most advanced piece of tech in it, but this is literally something you can just make yourself using household items. Obviously this product is designed for optimal airflow and evaporation and noise and convenience and so on, but the underlying idea is just: let the water freely evaporate into the air.It doesn’t heat the water, so it doesn’t heat your room or consume much power at all. It doesn’t vibrate the water, so it doesn’t sprinkle mineral dust all over your room either. You can dump plain tap water in it, and the cost of upkeep is replacing the $14 sponge-like wick every couple months instead of buying distilled water constantly. It’s quite good value for your money compared to other humidifier types.Of course it works. If you set a giant bowl of water out in your room, eventually it will all evaporate. This thing distributes a small amount of the water across the wick to increase its surface area, and then pulls air across it with a fan, which speeds up the evaporation process. It works. Of course it does.Ugh, reading humidifier reviews is so annoying, because all of the critical reviews say stuff like, “It used up a whole tank of water, but the air in my room didn’t get more humid, so it doesn’t work. 1 star.” Where do you think the water went?? If you don’t know, all of the objects in your room have to absorb humidity first, before the air can increase in humidity. The bed, the chair, the couch, the curtains. Wooden tables, cabinets, dressers, doors. The drywall that makes up the walls. They all pull water out of the air. And if your HVAC system is circulating the air in your room to other parts of your house, then you’re trying to make this little thing humidify your entire house.It does work. I set it to 40%, it eventually brought my room to 40% and kept it there. I set it to 50%, it eventually brought my room to 50% and kept it there. It takes time for the moisture to distribute evenly throughout everything. I started from 13% humidity in a 9’x12′ bedroom and it took two tanks of water. I also keep the door and window closed most of the time, so that I’m not humidifying the rest of the house, or the rest of the world. You’d need something a bit bigger for that.It’s easy to clean. All the surfaces that touch water are curved with no corners. You can’t throw it in the dishwasher, but you don’t need to. Just wipe it down with some soap in the sink whenever you feel like it needs it, don’t overthink it. Don’t use stuff that scratches plastic, etc.It’s not silent. It doesn’t make the watery glorp noise every time a bubble enters the tank, but the fan is noticeable. It’s a small fan inside a cylindrical housing that directs the airflow, but also works like a resonant chamber, so it makes a constant whirring noise while it’s operating. If your house is completely dead silent, you will notice this thing turning off and on. But if there’s normal background noise, you’ll hardly ever notice it. I think the quality of the noise is quite comforting and soothing; it has a nice white noise profile that isn’t harsh or distracting. There’s no sudden click or attack when it turns on. You may even want to buy this humidifier specifically for the background noise to help you sleep. I bought a loud air filter for that, after all.The shape of the thing is elegant and modern, but it looks like a medical device, with its bright white body accented with gray. The white makes it easier to tell when there’s algae starting to grow in it, so I understand. But the white is still kinda ugly. For the price and functionality, it’s well worth it.My only point of criticism is that the UI uses the world’s brightest blue LEDs. I will never understand why corporations feel like spamming blue LEDs into all of their products. They are very uncomfortable to look at, and I’m pretty sure you could use these ones by themselves to light your whole room. The LEDs dim after a few seconds, but they’re still ugly and piercing. Buy some LED dimming stickers to put over them, you can get packs here on Amazon for like $4. This isn’t enough for me to lower my score by a star, but I’m still gonna complain about it. Enough with the blue LEDs!!

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It’s noisy as the heater sound of the house, but it works so good. All the ultra sound humidifiers need to be cleaned everyday, but this one is ok to use longer than that without cleaning. Air circulation in my room is a plus!

I have a hygrometer that I use to check the humidity of in my apartment.It can get as low as 11% humidity in my apartment. So after I threw out my old ultrasonic humidifier I decided to pick this one up. In the interim, I would boil water in the kitchen to raise the humidity to a comfortable 40% as my hygrometer would show me. When I got this humidifier, I filled it up and plugged it in, heard the fan going and set it to 60% humidiity. After several hours the humidity level did not rise 1%!OK lets give it 24 hours. After 24 hours, it used up all the water, I checked that the wick filter was damp and the fan was working but still no rise in humidity! I filled up the tank again, let it run for another 24 hours and used up all the water and still no rise in humidity! But soon as I start boiling some water, in less the a few minutes the humidity would start to rise and I can hit 30% humidity within an 1 hour so. This product does not work! If anyone else has a hygrometer and has this product, let me know if it works for you. It didn’t look or sound defective as all the fan speeds were adjusting to the the level of humidity I was setting but it just wasn’t doing anything. I sent it back for a full refund. Getting another ultrasonic and testing it out.