I Thank you for the many hours you have invested into the products you engineer, as well as posting excellent tutorials, that are easy to follow. On behalf of my late husband that was a big fan of your channel year after year, I'll say "Well Done". : ) Warm ((Hugs)) and holiday wishes to you and yours, from a Nor Cali Gal.
Very interesting, was looking for a way to change an old humidifier from the big fat white wick that has to be bought and replaced. Might try to adapt to this with the screening and water sprinkling and use the built in fan. The pump could be small and just need to pour water on the screen pad. I am so glad you thought of this.
This thing works! I just built one very similar to yours and it works SO much better than the medium room ultrasonic humidifier I was running. We have (softened) hard water and I had to buy and fill it with distilled all the time. I can run straight tap water with this and it humidifies a LOT faster too. I used zip ties and hot glue to suspend the bug screen across 2 horizontal layers and an inline duct fan I had to force air through. It's a lot bulkier than what I had but I just rinse and run vinegar through it a couple times a week and it's been rock solid the past 6 weeks. Thank you for sharing your design, much appreciated!
What if you used a fan over some of the holes to help draw the humidity out? Maybe a paddle connected to the fan blades so the falling water could turn the fans and save on power costs?
Just made one of these bad boys. Ended up using two 80 GPH pumps, one per leg of the PVC (so I used an additional tee + barb). After 6 years of operating a evaporative wick humidifier I've had enough. The wick gets disgusting within a week of buying a new one. The ultrasonic style is a total health disaster unless you use distilled water. Then there are steam console humidifiers but they're expensive and inefficient. Finally, the few non-wick evaporative humidifiers are insanely expensive and complicated (like the Venta Air ones). It's all so ridiculous! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with this build. Excited to see how it performs. I'm sure I'll do another iteration or two.
hi there. it's great that you made it! sounds like you've got a great unit. different pump but that should be okay (as long as you get strong water flow). one tip is that i think you can use much stronger fans (to get even more humidity faster) if you want. that would be something to experiment with.
hi there. i hadn't thought of that use. now that i think about it there are probably lots of uses for these units. the only thing i was thinking at the time was something to get rid of the winter dry skin itch. btw, thanks for subscribing.🙂👍
Yea here in Florida we get a lot of humidity but extra for a greenhouse especially orchids would be great. Not to mention the sound of the water. Great videos really enjoy then.
I was curious what you think of an idea to intensify the cooling. 1) Is it needed? 2) Would my idea work? If there were a large enough cavity in the middle to fit frozen half-gallon or gallon bottles, would they impede the functionality? If not, perhaps three pipes on each end with a pipe going down one side connecting the two sections would have a similar amount of surface area for water droplets - just colder. Regarding sound proofing, I'm assuming the bulk of the noise is from the water falling eighteen inches onto other water, so what if its drop was reduced? What if the screen was angled down from the sides, catching water similar to how people try to collect rain water outside. That would reduce the distance any water would fall, but would it impact the operation? In any event, I've watched a few of your videos, so thanks for the wonderful ideas!
hi. since it's an evap. humidifier there is no need for any ice. ice would cool the air coming out but that won't increase the moisture output. in terms of the sound, you can adjust the screen inside the unit to make it sound pretty much how you want it to sound. (from nearly silent to a 'water trickling' sound). it's all in the way you position it inside of the unit. the unit has a very soothing sound to the ear either way. it's only louder if you don't use any screen material.
I Thank you for the many hours you have invested into the products you engineer, as well as posting excellent tutorials, that are easy to follow. On behalf of my late husband that was a big fan of your channel year after year, I'll say "Well Done". : ) Warm ((Hugs)) and holiday wishes to you and yours, from a Nor Cali Gal.
hi there and thank you for the kind words. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you too! (sorry to hear of your loss)🙏🌹
While I don't need a device like this myself, I still very much enjoy all the DIY idea you share with us. Thanx and keep'em coming.
Very interesting, was looking for a way to change an old humidifier from the big fat white wick that has to be bought and replaced. Might try to adapt to this with the screening and water sprinkling and use the built in fan. The pump could be small and just need to pour water on the screen pad. I am so glad you thought of this.
Plenty of humidity in Florida but thankful ever so much for your sand heaters!! I just bought land yesterday.
Great video! Thank you! Excellent description of use.
hi and thank you! 🙂
So here's the good part... I built your design for the solar air conditior so this also basically that unit easly converted for either use. !:- )
This thing works! I just built one very similar to yours and it works SO much better than the medium room ultrasonic humidifier I was running. We have (softened) hard water and I had to buy and fill it with distilled all the time. I can run straight tap water with this and it humidifies a LOT faster too. I used zip ties and hot glue to suspend the bug screen across 2 horizontal layers and an inline duct fan I had to force air through. It's a lot bulkier than what I had but I just rinse and run vinegar through it a couple times a week and it's been rock solid the past 6 weeks. Thank you for sharing your design, much appreciated!
hi and thank you too! and thanks for sharing your experience. sounds like it's working very well for you.
What if you used a fan over some of the holes to help draw the humidity out? Maybe a paddle connected to the fan blades so the falling water could turn the fans and save on power costs?
Another brilliant Vid! Thanks for the info!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
hi do you think its possible to sound proof this? i would have to run this all day because i live in northern europe and it gets very very dry here
Just made one of these bad boys. Ended up using two 80 GPH pumps, one per leg of the PVC (so I used an additional tee + barb).
After 6 years of operating a evaporative wick humidifier I've had enough. The wick gets disgusting within a week of buying a new one. The ultrasonic style is a total health disaster unless you use distilled water. Then there are steam console humidifiers but they're expensive and inefficient. Finally, the few non-wick evaporative humidifiers are insanely expensive and complicated (like the Venta Air ones). It's all so ridiculous!
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with this build. Excited to see how it performs. I'm sure I'll do another iteration or two.
hi there. it's great that you made it! sounds like you've got a great unit. different pump but that should be okay (as long as you get strong water flow). one tip is that i think you can use much stronger fans (to get even more humidity faster) if you want. that would be something to experiment with.
Good for orchard rooms in Fl. Cool idea.
hi there. i hadn't thought of that use. now that i think about it there are probably lots of uses for these units. the only thing i was thinking at the time was something to get rid of the winter dry skin itch. btw, thanks for subscribing.🙂👍
Yea here in Florida we get a lot of humidity but extra for a greenhouse especially orchids would be great. Not to mention the sound of the water. Great videos really enjoy then.
I thought evaporative coolers weren't effective in high humidity areas
I like the concept but you did not mention the air temperature which this evap cooler gets to once the evap cooler reaches peak operation?
I was curious what you think of an idea to intensify the cooling. 1) Is it needed? 2) Would my idea work?
If there were a large enough cavity in the middle to fit frozen half-gallon or gallon bottles, would they impede the functionality? If not, perhaps three pipes on each end with a pipe going down one side connecting the two sections would have a similar amount of surface area for water droplets - just colder.
Regarding sound proofing, I'm assuming the bulk of the noise is from the water falling eighteen inches onto other water, so what if its drop was reduced? What if the screen was angled down from the sides, catching water similar to how people try to collect rain water outside. That would reduce the distance any water would fall, but would it impact the operation?
In any event, I've watched a few of your videos, so thanks for the wonderful ideas!
hi. since it's an evap. humidifier there is no need for any ice. ice would cool the air coming out but that won't increase the moisture output. in terms of the sound, you can adjust the screen inside the unit to make it sound pretty much how you want it to sound. (from nearly silent to a 'water trickling' sound). it's all in the way you position it inside of the unit. the unit has a very soothing sound to the ear either way. it's only louder if you don't use any screen material.
My shower makes so much steam the fire alarm in the hall goes on.
i had that same issue with an older alarm. hasn't happened with the new alarm... yet