My current RH is 30%. I have hard tap water and buying distilled water all the time is not practical for me. I wonder what other people do?
can putting a pot of water on my harman p68 help with humidity levels.
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Jason Knapp
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I have a teapot on the top of my stove that evaporates, so I assume it's humidifying. I also use small humidifiers that I use too. I fill them with water from our refrigerator which has a water filter. I don't think you need to use distilled water.
F4jock
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Get a humidifier. The pot method helps but it won't get you enough moisture to be effective and the evaporation will leave enough residue behind to eventually ruin the pot. If you want, get a Zero Water pitcher and use it to produce water for the humidifier but I just change the filter every few weeks when breaking up and rinsing off the calcium and magnesium deposits becomes ineffective.
RKS130
Minister of Fire
I don't think the top of my Harman get hot enough to really make a humidifier out of a pot of water. We use the evaporative humidifiers we bought when our kids were babies. One right in front of the stove and one in our bedroom. We are surely putting several gallon of water into the air every day.
Find some friends with city water and fill your jugs, thats what I do to the tune of around 21 gallons every 4 days or so. I use RV water totes, 7 gallons each. Available at Wally World. Have spouts to fill with too.
i have terrible water too. I use water from our reverse osmosis system to fill the humidifier. actually i did that for 2 years then got tired of waiting for it to fill up since it takes longer than the tap. I wound up putting a tee in the line and rigging the humidifier with a float switch. Now it fills itself with the RO water. the filters last a lot longer but they do seem to pick up a lot of pellet dust.
The top of my p61 gets hot enough that I can refill a steamer pot that I got at TSC a couple of times a day when it's cold out. It doesn't do a lot, so I also run a whole house humidifier for much of the winter.
I started a concurrent thread about humidity btw.....
It's quite doable, installing an appropriate K&N washable/cleanable filter on any stove or a dry pleated filter like a Fram by measuring the intake flange and available space and sizing the filter accordingly. Attachment is as easy as a tarp strap. I have a washable K&N on my USSC 6031HF that eliminates most of the dust. I wash it 2 times a season but it's just as easy to use a dry element filter and blow it out (outside). Most blower intakes will readily accept a 'Shop Vac' pleated dry paper filter (the one that goes in a shop vac in the top. I just happen to use a K&N because I'm a K&N dealer
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