Looking to buy a humidifier to prevent skin from cracking during this cold weather and also to re-humidify the AC room during summers.
Priority: Reliable option that work for years on proper maintenance(Distilled water & regular cleaning)
Budget: Open to suggestions, whatever seems right.
Tank capacity/duration: enough to run a night unattended 8-9 hours ideally.
Room size: 130sqft
Unaware of the brands and reliability of the products that are on sale on amazon and Flipkart, the only brand I know is Kent and that has very poor ratings.
I’ve been using this for the past 2 years without any issues. It has a good capacity and is easy to clean too with a brush and I dont even use distilled water.
I will look into this AGARO brand. On amazon the popular brands seem to be AGARO, Reffair, COSTAR,ibell and Bear.
Distilled/Low TDS water is recommended to prevent scaling buildup which might affect the performance overtime or might need more frequent cleaning or preventing white dust(salts/minerals left after the water get’s evaporated.
Purchased the Reffair caligo 500, been using it for quite sometime now.
The things I personally liked is good quality plastic and , unibody with top fill, easy to clean body and auto off when the water level is low.
Warm mist: even thought it’s not that effective in warming up the air, it makes a very small difference. You can only feel the warm mist closer to the mist tube, It looses heat really quick after that. It might improve the moisture retention in the air and maybe even increase the temperature by a very tiny bit or make the mist more bearable if you’re sitting close up, but nothing significant.
Auto humidity(semi auto): this model does not really support a specific humidity range even though the option does exist to set a range it doesn’t work. The brand claims this to be semi automatic the humidifier only turns on when the humidity is lower than 75% and turns off when the humidity hits 85%. I would recommend Reffair caligo 70 plus which allows for you to set a desired humidity level.
Just a few key things to note if you’re buying a humidifier, make sure not to pour water into the air vent, a lot of users haven’t referred to the user manual pouring water in the air vent causes water to leak on the bottom or short circuit. Never over fill the tank, you will increase the risk of water entering the power cord area or the bottom circuit.