“Did you just buy a humidifier and… turn that into content?” Guilty as charged! But also, it’s been a surprisingly large quality-of-life improvement for me and the topic turned out to be worthy of exploration. I look forward to all the weird towel contraptions you’ll no doubt devise! *On that note! Important extra info lies below!* I was trying to avoid describing one type of humidifier as universally better than another, but I'm not sure I succeeded. Which kind will work the best for you is very, very situational. What struck me most about the evaporative style is simply how effective it is for how simple it is. But, a thing that I totally didn't address (and I, for real, pinky-promise meant to but simply forgot) was the cooling effect of evaporative humidifiers. After all, if it's the same thing as a swamp cooler, doesn't that mean it cools a bit? Well.... kinda. It's complicated by the fact that the ability of swamp coolers to cool depends on how dry the air is, so once these things have brought the humidity up to anything appreciable, that cooling effect is very mild. But it is indeed true that the water "stole" some heat from the air in order to evaporate, so some cooling inevitably occurs. I'll talk about this more casually on Connextras: kzread.info/dash/bejne/epp6o8t8fa-wYZc.html

@ZGryphon

3 жыл бұрын

And now you can write it off as a business expense! Clever. :)

@Prestonshow

3 жыл бұрын

hi

@davidt8087

3 жыл бұрын

Fuk I'm not first

@Ck-iq1up

3 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on water purifiers? Please

@JonesNate

3 жыл бұрын

For what it's worth, dry air gives me nosebleeds.

This channel is secretly a scheme to turn Alec's new homeowner costs into tax deductions. Next week: "how do roofs work?"

@3nertia

3 жыл бұрын

That's actually not a terrible idea xD

@CryptoRoast_0

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing 😂😂

@letsburn00

3 жыл бұрын

I just realised why every KZreadr who does nerdy stuff went for the Tesla roof and battery option.

@chriss31

3 жыл бұрын

10/10!

@LoveStallion

3 жыл бұрын

And I only now just learned the host's name after many, many videos.

"I bought a humidifier last week."- Now has 4 humidifiers.

@aronfejes

3 жыл бұрын

Five***

@artificernathaniel3287

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the guy buying one humidifier off of amazon and amazon kept offering him ads for his newfound humidifier collection 😂 If Technology Connections has 5 of them then I guess it works on some people! 😂

@JoshHeidenreich

3 жыл бұрын

Next week it'll be 16

@christo930

3 жыл бұрын

Thank God for steam heat. I've never need a humidifier with my 'fill the air with water' steam heat. Steam heat runs with the baseboards open until the radiator gets hot enough to close a valve. This dumps a lot of steam into the air around the baseboards. It also means anything cold in the house sweats.

@atomlib

3 жыл бұрын

For at least some of them, he clearly bought them used or borrowed them from someone. The ultrasonic one has signs of use.

Light dim decal?! Such a thing exists?! OMG I got so excited I had to pause the video and go looking for some. No longer will I have to put black electrician's tape over the bright-enough-to-burn-your-eyes-out LED displays which sort of, you know, negates the convenience of actually having a display to tell you what's going on. The room air purifier we have is particularly egregious, but I've also taken the tape to routers and computer towers. Thank you soooooo much.

@gunshotNrun

Жыл бұрын

you can also just get a roll of cheap window tint film and cut small squares to fit whatever you need

@IamCoalfoot

Жыл бұрын

Ironically, the blue led's on my bedside clock are so dim I can't see them half the time. Seriously, manufacturers, our eyes just aren't made to see blue light clearly; it scatters too easily, and blends in with morning sunlight. =_=

@qwertykeyboard5901

Жыл бұрын

@@IamCoalfoot WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BLASPHEMOUS CLOCK!?

@raspberryjam

Жыл бұрын

I was so annoyed at the light in my computer tower's power button I just straight up traced the button and busted out the arduino male female wires to just disconnect them and so now I have a little band of rainbow in my pc :3

@RAndrewNeal

8 ай бұрын

Kapton tape is especially good, without the need to buy a specialized product. With its amber color, it greatly dims blue LEDs. I use it on almost anything with a bright blue LED, and it can of course be stacked if one piece isn't enough.

I like that he just throws in “quicklier” without skipping a beat.

11:20 "its brown" correction "its orange with context"

@drakorez

3 жыл бұрын

Well done my friend

@Ktulu789

3 жыл бұрын

I see you are a man of culture!

@markwright3161

3 жыл бұрын

*dark orange

@MrRoeler

3 жыл бұрын

Wisdom is spreading thanks to Technology connections 👌

@nitehawk86

3 жыл бұрын

If there is anything that Technology Connections and Regular Car Reviews have in common, its *HOT BROWN*

"It is brown, and therefore excellent." I agree, dark orange is my favorite color.

@billagedad1

3 жыл бұрын

brown is still weird....

@mdr48371

3 жыл бұрын

*with context

@marks6663

3 жыл бұрын

I think he has gone black, and he is not going back.

@heshiram1188

3 жыл бұрын

You mean Dark Yellow Red

@digitalfootballer9032

3 жыл бұрын

I think he and Mr. Regular from Regular Car Reviews would get along well with their mutual affection of BROWN 🟤🟤🟤

As someone who also has to suffer through Illinois winters, and who also has a humidifier set up and running not five feet from his desk, I can 100% agree, humidifiers are a necessity.

@riordanparata4339

Жыл бұрын

Oh god I live in the subtropics of the north island of New Zealand so we all have central dehumidifiers not cooling or heating just dehumidifi.

@byeFofiko1

Жыл бұрын

I feel like everything got so much drier when I moved to Boston, is Illinois supposed to be worse?

@Supreme_Lobster

10 ай бұрын

A necessity for what?

@lunathecutest6652

10 ай бұрын

Try living in Nevada. Its almost always 0% humidity. No matter the season.

@SubvertTheState

10 ай бұрын

​@@Supreme_LobsterIt actually helps the air inside retain heat. Water has a very high thermal intertia, I've noticed such a huge difference that my heater runs less than half as often when my air has been humidified. I just run my drier outlet into the house in the winter though, I hate to waste all of that heat and humidity when it's 11°F outside.

I had a large humidifier many years ago that had a towel "loop" on a roller. When it ran, a motor rolled the towel down through the water and up in front of the fan. Extremely effective and it held LOTS of water (days). Yes, you could clean the towel (not really a towel but cloth of some sort). The only problem was that once I set it up too high and at night my setback thermostat let the temperature drop below the dewpoint and it rained inside my house. We woke up wet!

"It's brown, and therefore, excellent." Definitely one of the best Alec quotes ever. Right up there with So-ny.

@theramblingnerd723

3 жыл бұрын

That immediately struck me. I think you're right.

@TheLegoPerson

3 жыл бұрын

Wait, what video is So-ny from? I don't remember that one

@Tokkemon

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLegoPerson CED part 5 I think.

@thomas316

3 жыл бұрын

"Brooooooooooooown" - Regular Car Reviews

@deviationblue

3 жыл бұрын

The brown video is my favorite of Alec's works

This man's impression of water glugging at 18:05 is first rate.

@wernerfritsch6436

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, how long has he practiced that?

@hassanila

3 жыл бұрын

We need bloopers

@mikerichards6065

3 жыл бұрын

Worthy of an Emmy at the very least.

@3nertia

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, his sound effect sounded *more* like water "glugging" than the humidifier did!

The device you are looking for is a clothes drying rack, what my parents used before we had a clothes dryer (and after too.) FYI If the console ever fails to maintain the desired humidity level, roll it near a hot air furnace vent to improve the rate of evaporation. Be prepared to fill the tank more than once a day. When mine goes dry I fill both the tank and the reservoir!

@hanneswiggenhorn2023

Жыл бұрын

But for the desired functionality, you want a clothes drying rack placed in a way that the clothes on top stay wet from another water source, like a bucket or bowl

@atk05003

Жыл бұрын

@@hanneswiggenhorn2023 Depending on the height of the drying rack and the type of material, just the one bowl might be enough. If not, some drying racks have parallel rails, so placing a board across higher rails could provide a platform for a second bowl.

@dav786

4 ай бұрын

Throughout Europe, drying racks are still super common, more common than dryers. Also in most of Europe, Luft is a thing. We open windows and doors in the house everyday for 10 minutes, no matter if it's summer or winter. This is to reduce mold.

In your dissection of how to improve upon your humidifier, I reckon rather than add complications like a pump to increase capacity, fine-tuning the wicks to float at near buoyancy might work as a more mechanically simple solution. Like a toilet tank, you could sit the wick on rails and calibrated bouys so it would travel evenly down the water reservoir until emptied. You could probably mock it up with pink insulation foam and some cabinet tracks if you felt so compelled. Thank you as always for an interesting video about things we take for granted!

@hengineer

5 ай бұрын

You could probably use a tank, reservoir system similar to some pet water fountains have.

@AsTheStarsFallDown

3 ай бұрын

That may cause a positive feedback loop, though. If the wick dries out, it would become lighter, causing it to sit higher in the water, causing it to get lighter, causing it to sit higher, etc..

"It's Brown, and therefore, excellent." Technology Connections continues to be a man of refined and elegant taste

@thatguywithabodyoof6248

3 жыл бұрын

it's contextual orange tho

@I_Santos_

3 жыл бұрын

I came here as soon as he said it and I wasn’t disappointed.

@Gharcan

3 жыл бұрын

This guy and Lindybeige should do a video on the topic of which colour being better: Brown or Beige... I'm sure they could come to an agreement of some sorts ^^

@Silentshot0617

3 жыл бұрын

BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN

@Krahazik

3 жыл бұрын

with an eye piercing display

"IT'S BROWN, AND THEREFORE, EXCELLENT" Technology Connections, the American James May

@StudioBrock1337

3 жыл бұрын

Actually though James is the one who owns all the bright coloured cars, wears super bright running shoes, and is Captain Slow. They're kind of opposites who both really love how things work. :P Also I'd love to see them do a show together, talking about camping stoves, or wind mill turbines, or ball bearings or something. Would be excellent.

@mattvw9287

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man, this one got me good.

@MarioDiNicola

3 жыл бұрын

Came for this comment

@dregenius

3 жыл бұрын

YES. YES, YES YES.

@lefear2

3 жыл бұрын

I think he meant to say dark orange

I really appreciate that you explained why the air indoors is so much drier in the winter although the air outdoors might be really humid (>90%). It didn't occur to me that the relative humidity decreases dramatically once the cool outside air is sucked into the home by the ventilation system and heated up to room temperature.

The Vicks Warm Steam Vaporizer IS an Electrode Boiler. That is why it requires descaling quite often if you have high mineral content in your water. It can also be manually descaled, but the boiler chamber isn't really designed for end user maintenance. If there is too much minerals or salt in your water, this thing will spit water all over the place.

“it’s blue. Why is it blue?” Yes, damn it, WHY?!? There goes your night vision, and it’s straining on the eyes. It’s like they get the blue LEDs for free and a subsidy for every LED they can cram into their product.

@KairuHakubi

3 жыл бұрын

I believe blue LEDs were the hardest to produce, and the most expensive for a while. That's why they're slingshotting to using them constantly now that they're finally cheap and available. That and most people like blue best. As far as I'm concerned, the problem's the intensity

@robertbackhaus8911

3 жыл бұрын

It is their higher voltage drop. This helps with the design. They want to control those 14 LEDs using the fewest umber of processor pins, so they can use the cheapest little micro controller. Today's microcontrollers can set their pins to three states - high or on, low or off, and as an input, which lets the pin float to any value. They can use these three states to make a small number of pins control a large number of LEDs, using something called tri-state multiplexing or charlieplexing. Look it up, but the key point here is that you need the voltage to make the LEDs you are using to turn on to be more than half the voltage of the processor. This is important because charlieplexing will, to light various single LEDs, often end up putting power across two other LEDs in series. If the voltage drop was low, those two would also light up. Processors generally run on 5 volts, and blue LEDs need 3 volts to turn on. 2 blue LEDs in series would need 6 volts to turn on, so there's no problem. Red, amber and green LEDs run on 1 to 2 volts. If a product wants to use other coloured LEDs, they would use a blue or even a near ultra-violet LED to pump a coloured phosphor. But this is more expensive. So blue LEDs are used because, for the design, they are cheapest.

@KairuHakubi

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertbackhaus8911 Fascinating, thank you!

@Roalethiago

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it's cheaper to build, and since i can't read anything in bright blue (seriously, i have a clock with a blue 7 segment display only for show bcouse its just impossible for me to read), i really miss the old red leds on stuff...

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic

3 жыл бұрын

@@Roalethiago Red lenses were used by the military for flash lights, since red light damages one's "night vision" (natural ability to see in the dark with minimal light, anyways) less than other colors, and blue light has been proven to stimulate the brain and hinder the release of melatonin (a chemical that helps you sleep). I'm totally down with "vintage" red on every LED. 👍

"It's brown and, therefore, excellent." Ah, I missed you, Alec.

@nickcarter4006

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent advice for buying vintage televisions and hi-if stereos!

@whotookgetinthebag

3 жыл бұрын

Imma going to make one that is completely LED blue and has a wood grain LCD display.

@NinJestre

3 жыл бұрын

This line just makes me want to see him & Lindybeige together

@jeffc5974

3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it's just dark orange.

@potman4581

3 жыл бұрын

@@whotookgetinthebag You, my friend, are a psychopath.

The mist ones which throw minerals can also throw sodium into your air. I had one for a while and all the natural gas flames in the house turned orange. A lighter inside and outside indicated it was in the air and not the gas, so a little armature spectroscopy let me work out sodium with my HPS lamp as a reference. That was a satisfying day.

@pickledfur

Жыл бұрын

Use pure distilled water, that way there won't be any minerals in it.

@Cobalt985

11 ай бұрын

@@pickledfur spotted the cheese grater connoisseur

@pickledfur

11 ай бұрын

@@Cobalt985 :]

@fackloar

5 ай бұрын

Is it bad for you to have sodium in the air?

@JoranGroothengel

5 ай бұрын

@@fackloar The main problem is that all of the minerals in the water that evaporates will turn into dust, very very small dust at that. It might be fine, it might depend on the specific minerals in your water, or it might just be a big problem. All the studies so far mainly seem to point out that, yes, if you use an ultrasonic humidifier with tap water you get a massive increase in very small dust particles in the air. It's problem a good idea to stick to the safe side and either not use ultrasonic humidifiers, or use them with demineralised water. Keep in mind, this isn't the same as water-softening, some water softening systems still leave plenty of minerals in the water, just not the ones that cause scale.

I'be been growing mushrooms for almost a decade now, and they for example require a minimum of about 86% humidity to fruit, and close to 91% to primodia pin. I've used almost every type of humidity, from slashing water on textured ground, to cheap humidifiers, to ultrasonic discs and even low psi high pressure misting pumps. It is a great point to share how the humidity acts between warm and cold weather, which is why I always have a charging room before my grow rooms where I'll have a diy swamp cooler in conjunction with a heater to add some base level humidity, then the air volume gets pushed past the ultrasonic discs to help it effectively add the bulk of the humidity more easily, since mushroom grow rooms need 6 cycles of air per hour, since mushroms breath oxygen and produce carbondioxide that needs to be removed with a fan, which makes holding high humidity hard since it can be so fleeting depending on outdoor temps. Something to consider in regards to limescale in humidifiers, the cheap ones can get clogged if you use it excessively, and the safety off switch when they run out of water can get jammed from the scaling, which causes the device to continue operate even without water. This can cause fires if the device is designed to cool itself with the water in it's reservior, and provides a nice electrical fire smell to watch out for. The best humidiier is an ink bird humidiy meter with a house of hydro 3 disc ultrasonic, in a bucket with a 120cfm CPU fan blowing into it (with a air flow check valvue, aka flap of aluminum) and a timer for 3-4minutes on 6-7min off, this setup will turk a 8x10x8ft room into 86%+ humidity with a 160cfm fan pushing air constantly. I use a float value in there too, and have a flow and psi meter incase a hose breaks

@jojustjo370

3 ай бұрын

Year later but still. Since you have experience, how do you deal with minerals in water for ultrasonic humidifier? Noone seems to mention it. Do you use distilate only? Or water softening filter? Or HEPA at the air exit port? Don't you have that "heavy" breathing feeling there when air is full of stuff previously dissolved in water?

@baildude12

2 ай бұрын

​@@jojustjo370how I deal with it in my ultrasonic humidifier is I prefilter the water through a zerowater filter. Their claims are 0ppm after filtering and project farm reviewed the filter ang got the same results. It's worked great for me so far

Not gonna lie, the term "whole-house humidifier" gives me some serious "full bridge rectifier" vibes.

@Tharmin.124

2 жыл бұрын

*F U L L B R I D G E R E C T I F I E R*

@Alex-lo6yt

2 жыл бұрын

WhOOOOOOOLE hOUSe huMIDIFYAAAA

@calebdrake9953

2 жыл бұрын

Electrolux

@calebdrake9953

2 жыл бұрын

Wait no Boom !

@Tharmin.124

2 жыл бұрын

@@calebdrake9953 Lmao

11:20 No, it’s not brown. It’s orange with context.

@sivalley

3 жыл бұрын

Nice throwback. 😎

@cezarcatalin1406

3 жыл бұрын

Not fair ! You changed the output colour by observing its context !

@OrangeC7

3 жыл бұрын

As someone who would have no bias towards this issue, I approve the decision to rename "brown" to "orange with context"

@renagonpoi5747

3 жыл бұрын

@@OrangeC7 but isn't orange just brown without context?

@iCarus_A

3 жыл бұрын

@@renagonpoi5747 brown without context is orange, but orange can remain orange regardless of context, so no

Instead of the soap dispenser, you could use a bettix bottle to accurately measure your dosage each time. These are commonly used by brewers and aquarium owners. Many people may have seen a similar concept to these with mouthwash bottles marketed for kids. You squeeze the bottle and liquid flows up to where it can be measured. This can then be dispensed by pouring out.

why is this channel so soothing

"Here's where things get slightly interesting!" Should be a catchphrase on this channel, which I mean in the best way possible.

@moonlad3835

3 жыл бұрын

@@egesanl1 old timey *brown font

@harmon802

3 жыл бұрын

Came for the interesting, stayed for the slightly interesting!

@Dong_Harvey

3 жыл бұрын

That would make it Quite Interesting if it was British

@Zeero3846

3 жыл бұрын

@@moonlad3835 *ahem* dark orange

The only channel where I would say "Oh! Humidifiers! I gotta watch!", and actually mean it.

also, I read an article a week or so ago that said: new research might show that dry, cold air negatively impacts the native microbe flora in our noses, making it easier for pathogens to get into our bodies and make us ill. I didn't read the study myself but this would definitely make sense to me! Yay humidifiers

When you use something sometimes advertised as an air cooler to make your heated air more comfortable in the winter, you know you’re living the life

@googiegress7459

Жыл бұрын

[PHOTO OF DICAPRIO TOASTING AND WINKING]

7:46 "I've apparently uncovered something of a mist-ery" I see what you did there...

"Here's where things get slightly interesting!" is a really good tagline for this whole channel

@ArtofRanael

3 жыл бұрын

Yes but actually, yes.

@runnerr000

3 жыл бұрын

super easy barely an inconvenience ...

@madhououinkyoma

Жыл бұрын

@@runnerr000 LOL, wrong channel?

When the air is too dry I take a shower.

I had a friend with an expensive Schimmel piano. The room where it was kept had a humidifier and a dehumidifier. That humidifier was a console with a large, slowly spinning, perforated disk. It had one side basically summerged and rotated as a fan blew on it. It reminded me of a small-holed of an old-fashioned bubble blowing machine. It seemed to work very quickly.

Nice evaporators will have a couple features these lack: 1) a shallow trough just high enough for the wick to draw from rather than a big basin (reduces "unusable" water volume) 2) a UV light which will sterilize the water in the trough to keep it sanitary for longer periods

@andspenrob

3 жыл бұрын

@@toastedbuuns13 The one I have is a small (one-room) model. Honeywell HCM-350. (out-of-=stock currently?) www.honeywellstore.com/store/products/honeywell-uv-cool-moisture-germ-free-humidifier-black-hcm-350b.htm

@TDREXrx9

3 жыл бұрын

yeah I use A huge one for my house and use RODI water with it but always add anti bacteria stuff because that stuff is a breading ground but not as bad as the real ultra sonics.

@CleverClothe

3 жыл бұрын

@@andspenrob I have that one and I can recommend it. I live in Seattle and it has plenty of capability to keep a 800 sq ft condo comfortable in our weather.

@MagicznaPanda

3 жыл бұрын

UV lights are off dubious efficacy. The problem is that they can't really work once there's a buildup of limescale. So you still need to clean it regularly (once every 3 days or so). The nice thing about HCM-350 is that many of the parts are dishwasher safe, so it makes it easier to clean. There's some pricier humidifiers that require much less frequent cleaning thanks to additives, like the Venta LW15/25. Generally speaking, evaporative humidifiers are going to be easier to clean - but ultrasonic ones can humidify quicker - whereas most evaporative ones have the advantage of staying at 40-60% (ideally you prob. want 50).

@johnpossum556

3 жыл бұрын

@@toastedbuuns13 I got a taotronics that cost about $50 that uses a sonic disc to put the water out. Output is seriously large, like a gallon in a couple of hours. It has changed my life! I usually had once side of my nasal passages clogged all my life until now.

“Quicklier” “Simulated wood-grain excellence”

@marwinthedja5450

3 жыл бұрын

Must be Americanish English ;)

@aguyandhiscomputer

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment. Quicklier?!?

@mattmguitar

3 жыл бұрын

"Quicklier" is my second-favorite comparative adverbjective. My favorite adverbjective is "Easilier."

@witnessingdaily4327

3 жыл бұрын

Wordreference . Com says it's not a Word. Every other website says "it is but isn't".

I have an amazing air humidifier too. It's called a laundry rack, and it saves energy on both drying the laundry and humidifying the air! Neat!

I recently moved from the very rainy Portland area to the mountains of the BC interior. I was not prepared for how dry the winter would be. We managed to find a steal of a deal on a lightly-used Honeywell single [large] room unit, and while the proprietary wicks are ridiculously expensive, they don’t need to be replaced very often because the humidifier has a genius feature: a UV bulb that sits over the water pool just before the wick! It never gets musty, and the wick only develops very faint mildewy smell after a couple months of daily use. You can really only smell it if you bring it right up to your nose, and a good rinse will almost completely get the smell out. I love this thing, it’s so low maintenance and easily keeps our bedroom at 50-60% with the door cracked open.

"adding salt" was a dead giveaway that it's an electrode boiler.

@xiro6

3 жыл бұрын

it have two carbon rods with electricity running from one to the other by the salty water.

@puckcat22679

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone here a fan of DiodeGoneWild? MORE SAAAAALT!

@xiro6

3 жыл бұрын

@@puckcat22679 its the method used for maintaining the swimming pools,you add table salt,apply the electrical current by electrodes,and voila,you chlorinated water NaCl + H2O + ENERGY → NaOCl + H2 they also used it to produce sodium hypochlorite from seawater.

@mysock351C

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is from the owners manual. I have to go buy one, now. "Mooorreee SAAAALLLLTT"

@bcubed72

3 жыл бұрын

So basically, a "stinger" heater, like convicts make with an extension cord?

“I traveled to the exotic lands of, Walmart” It really feels that way sometimes

@yankeeclipper4326

3 жыл бұрын

Its like a safari full of strange evolutionary dead ends.

@sOriginalMan-bw8de

3 жыл бұрын

Outside my house is exotic lands

The fact that you called out the bright-ass LED display lights got me instantly to subscribe. Drives me insane, I feel like a crazy person putting tape on all my electronic devices just so they stop using up my brain's attention pointlessly.

I did the “wet towel” budget humidifier once when I didn’t have access to a real one - it worked like a charm! Though it required hanging three damp bath towels in a small room…definitely a “cheapskate college kid” solution, but it’s vindicating to see the same thing recommended here!

Here in the Netherlands older homes have porcelain water containers hanging on the radiators, which you fill with water so it evaporates when the heating is on. They're pretty old fashioned, but have the advantage of having no moving parts or maintenance. Plus they often have some classy drawing on them, as old porcelain does.

@jinbee2627

3 жыл бұрын

An aunt of mine used to have those here in the UK too.

@epowell4211

3 жыл бұрын

sounds lovely

@sinokoperkowa

3 жыл бұрын

In Poland you can buy them still in many hardware stores.

@penguincpickles225

3 жыл бұрын

My dad, here in the US, had a portable radiator, he just stuck an old pot filled with water on it.

@Niklas_J_L

3 жыл бұрын

Now I want one to complement my tulip vase. Are the water containers also white and blue? (Is all white and blue called Delft porcelain?)

I'm imagining a wick that can traverse up and down with the aid of a pontoon float on its sides... Get that super duper tank capacity and no pump required and no drizzle sound. The wick could float to the top when the tank is full then slowly drop down (always keeping its bottom 1" or 2" submerged) totally silently 😁👍 Loved this video!

@samerm8657

3 жыл бұрын

Smart concept! I myself began thinking of a rotating wick instead.

@matshch

3 жыл бұрын

@@samerm8657, that's exactly how Smartmi Air Humidifier 2 works! They use several plastic disks with hexagonal pattern to catch more water as a wick, and this disks placed vertically in tank of water and slowly rotated. Works great as an idea, but in this particular unit manufacturer hided from software humidity limit setting, so if you are not kind of person who want install modified apps on your smartphone I would not recommend buying this one.

@stickoutofthemud

3 жыл бұрын

@DevianrOllam Glad to see I am not the only one who had this rather obvious thought.

@kryos451

3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, my grandparents had one that was about 4 feet tall with a wick that was essentially a vertical rotating belt. It ran over a fan as it rotated.

@BenjaminCronce

3 жыл бұрын

@@samerm8657 My uncle has one. Large foam wheel that rotates past the fan. Also great that cleaning out the air. Starts to look like a used air filter.

seeing that brown "console" humidifier brought back all kinds of memories from my grandmother's house. I can't seem to find images online of anything similar or remember if it was a humidifier or dehumidifier. I just remember it was really long, rectangular, had some kind of wood grain exterior pattern, and had water and big rotating drum/wheel on the inside.

Got into the humidifier game last year and ended up getting a SmartMi. It's a 4L "smart" model. The nice thing about it is that it doesn't even use wicks. Instead there's a few dozens textured solid plastic discs rotating in the reservoir. The discs pull the water in front of the fan which proceeds to evaporate it. Power consumption is great too: about 8W over 12h to go through the reservoir, or roughly 91Wh/gallon. Very quiet too. The reservoir is one large, square bucket with little to no crannies and nooks, so it is very easy to clean, and the discs can be simply popped into the dishwasher (or hand scrubbed). I also really like the minimal aesthetics of the product. Venta makes similar products, although some of their models have filters and "hygiene discs" that need frequent replacing, and Desert Spring manufactures a Furnace Humidifier, also disc-based and meant to be attached to central HVAC.

That 3 gallon AirCare humidifier is now trending on home depot LOL

@jimjab3631

3 жыл бұрын

Airfare is spewing mold

Ladies and gentlemen and whoever in between, we have reached Clark Kent levels of hair styling in this one.

@m.degroot6837

3 жыл бұрын

Only Clark Kent wears glasses.

@YounesLayachi

3 жыл бұрын

@@m.degroot6837 well ok this is superman.

@YounesLayachi

3 жыл бұрын

Superman in brown suit

@WastedMeerkat1

3 жыл бұрын

I was literally about to comment how great his hair looks in this video

@rutgerb

3 жыл бұрын

I think his mom did his hair ;D

Surprised you never mentioned those big consoles, similar in appearance to your brown one. These had a rotating drum with wicking material around it's circumference which dipped in water and the fan... etc, again like your brown one. I remember seeing a few of these in Canadian homes with electric baseboard heating in the 70's.

@theburrowrises8549

Жыл бұрын

My grandma had one of those

@battleforevermore

Жыл бұрын

"Its brown and therefore excellent"

@erinhawkins1950

Жыл бұрын

we used to have one of those in our kitchen when I was young.... I wish I could get one now. And the drum is a much better way than a pump because the whole bottom was full of water. My mom would just dump a bucket of water into the thing every once in a while.

@tjmpls4905

2 ай бұрын

I had one of those years ago and really miss it. Didn't have to buy expensive wicks every year and the wicking material was easy to clean. Progress.

Years ago, I added a small fountain pump to my circa 1990's Kenmore tabletop evaporative humidifier, with tubing leading to small nozzles distributed across the top of the pad. It makes no additional noise at all and boosted the output of the unit by a factor of about four. Amazingly high output. It also has had the added benefit of keeping the entire pad constantly wet, completely eliminating the buildup of minerals on the pad. Unfortunately, most tabletop models don't have a sufficiently deep or accessible sump to accommodate such a retrofit. I also set the humidistat to have it run constantly from fall until spring. Where I live, 24/7 run time is needed to maintain 50% RH in the winter months.

"It's brown, and therefore, excellent." I love this channel

@jarskiXD

3 жыл бұрын

BBC

@brancaleone8895

3 жыл бұрын

oh you mean darker orange?

@lotharbeck71

3 жыл бұрын

"This is John... I mean... The Wick."

@Fragffs

3 жыл бұрын

As soon as i saw it's color i knew he would say something about it. Really like this humor.

I live in the Western Rockies, on the line where it becomes technically desert, and the indoor humidity stays at 15% year-round My grandparents heat their house with a wood stove, so they just put a pot of water on a brick on top of it to humidify their house

@xmtxx

3 жыл бұрын

And if the pot drip, you can call it a sauna :D

@mikep3226

3 жыл бұрын

I do this as well. Here in Rural Vermont it's called a "Yankee Humidifier".

That whole house humidifier is very similar to the one I have, albeit a bit newer, and mine has two water tanks. Same brand too. Pretty cool to have a detailed description of how it works! I have to change my wicks every two months because of the poor quality water around my community. Even with filters and water softeners, it gets nasty and smells like a literal swamp in a couple months. I thought about installing a humidifier with my new furnace but I was worried about mold in my HVAC system.

I watched half of this, realised I'd just bought a DEhumidifier, and knew I should probably should watching as I was learning too many unnecessary things. This guy's brilliant! :D

11:45 "...with simulated wood grain excellence." *Clint Basinger has entered the chat*

@rob5300

3 жыл бұрын

LGR also joined the chat

@danem2215

3 жыл бұрын

That's who LGR is, Robert

"Man's greatest enemy is not the devil nor even man, himself, but those darn blue LEDs in home humidifiers" -Kierkegaard (probably)

@RailBuffRob

3 жыл бұрын

At least it's not as bad as it used to be, when blue LEDs first hit the market manufacturers would put them in everything, often it wasn't an indicator or anything it was just a random bright blue light just for the sake of having a random bright blue light

@Entropy67

3 жыл бұрын

@@RailBuffRob so basically every one if my arduino projects? hehe blue light shiny....

@AddlerMartin

3 жыл бұрын

I had a guitar pedal with a blue LED that did illuminate my face on stage very brightly

@gavincurtis

3 жыл бұрын

@@RailBuffRob I was in Europe in a nice hotel.... the stupid internet TV box... Superbright white LED was ON when in standby. It would turn OFF when the unit was on. 25,000 MCD 10 degree dispersion ice white LED to light up the room at night.

@mattbartley2843

3 жыл бұрын

In a previous job we often tested (TV) set-top boxes. One of them we were working on for a while had a tiny surface-mount blue LED. It was so bright that we'd tape over it so we didn't get after-images looking anywhere near it. Between the common super bright LEDs and the common LEDs that are *on* when the unit is *off* and vice-versa - who came up with that anyway?

Your cube wall is inspiring. I imagine bringing in an air hose + attachment to pneumatically ‘dust’.

Just got theBrown Aircare Large Console you highlighted in this video! They have completely redesigned the interior. I am certain it is because of this video. No longer any tank… 4 wicks and two fans side by side. Even the Blue LED is not very bright! Well Done!

I recently bought a humidifier from AirCare, mostly because of this video, and it looks like someone there watched this video. Most complaints seems to be fixed. It uses a green, less bright display, has a function to run until the water is over (and warns about it on the display) and the entire upper part goes off for cleaning. =D Not perfect but it got better, in my opinion. The model I bought is the AIRCARE MA1201. Thanks for all the information in this video. It helped me a lot since I recently moved to Canada and where I came from we never need a humidifier and I had no idea which one would be a good fit for me.

@Demonslayer20111

2 жыл бұрын

It wouldnt supruse me if this is a parts bin special product made of things they already have a stock of in the factory

@beautheawesome

Жыл бұрын

P

"Light dim decal" is a product I didn't know existed and now urgently need.

@300DBenz

3 жыл бұрын

They are amazing, last week I put them on all the LED and lit LCDs in my bedroom and that night I had the best sleep I’ve had in a long time. Fell asleep faster.

Absolutely enjoy your videos ... You make your viewers easily understand how “ stuff “ works ... You’re a rockstar of technology and I’m happy to be a subscriber .

I bought a version of the console humidifier like yours. My rh was 16%!!! I’ve had this humidifier running on high speed for a few hours and already has the first floor up to 40%. I imagine all of the wood work and floors, piano, and guitars will soak up the moisture, so I set it to 55%. After a week or so I’ll set it to 45%. Thank you!

"To my fellow Midwesterners, Menards..." Hey, he really is one of us!

@Studio23Media

3 жыл бұрын

He knew exactly where he was going with that before he said it. 😂

@keiffitz689

3 жыл бұрын

Ope™

@Lawrence330

3 жыл бұрын

I lived in the Midwest my whole life, or up until a couple years ago, and we NEVER had a Menards. My grandma's town had one, so I knew of Menards, but we didn't have one within 100 miles. I recently went to visit my parents, now they have 2, 2!

@Ziferten

3 жыл бұрын

@@keiffitz689 Spotted the Minnesotan / Wisconsinite!

@DraxTrac

3 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised that they opened up locations in my state, West Virginia.

THANK YOU for the tangent on the unnecessary blue LED lights. I can't STAND LED lights that don't need to be there or that are WAY too bright. Same thing can be said for unnecessary beeps.

@charliebrown1976

3 жыл бұрын

Same thing with cheap, panel-mount voltmeters for batteries and such. Not blue, in my case, but putrid neon green ain't much better. Granted, the only one I regularly use I rarely need to use in the dark and it can be shut off, but still. WHY?

@philipcorner574

3 жыл бұрын

I was once in a hotel that had a motion activated light for the bathroom so you didn't have to turn the light on at night... It was BLUE! Literally the worst colour at night! Style over substance

@BoingoInstaller

3 жыл бұрын

@@philipcorner574 It's not even stylish, because blue LEDs are everywhere, which indicate lack of taste. I personally like green for one color and green/amber or white(dim)/amber. Latter looks more interesting for me

@alexanderthomas2660

3 жыл бұрын

I bought an ultrasonic humidifier a while ago, and it had built-in lighting as an extra bonus. Guess what color scorched my eyes when I turned it on… Who on earth, aside from brothels, wants to use pure monochromatic blue light? It didn't take long before I ordered a set of warm-white LEDs and disassembled the whole damn thing to replace the LEDs. Due to the weird design it was difficult to solder them and I had to fix bad connections twice, but it was absolutely worth it.

@Kalvinjj

3 жыл бұрын

Trying to play anything on a 2DS/3DS at night, you almost wish the battery was low. Set the brightness to anything that doesn't hurt your eyes, and to no avail because of that disgustingly bright blue power LED. That and the display on our cable TV box. They even tried making it dim the panel when it's turned off and showing the clock but... not enough for night. The solution was a piece of X-ray sheet that we flip on top of it to sleep. Still bright enough to see the clock anyway.

Gotta say, as someone who DID grow up in an arid desert, bless swamp coolers! I fondly remember the huge window unit we had. Also remember being a kid and noticing how poorly it worked when it did rain -- love those early science lessons learned through living!

21:34 This design was described to me by my grandfather as a "bush fridge" for keeping food cool while camping! Just rigging up a square frame of sticks and hanging hessian across the top and down the sides into a supply of water with whatever you want to keep cool hanging inside.

When I was little, we heated our house with wood stoves, so there were cast iron kettles simmering on the stove for this purpose.

@michael-ib3kk

3 жыл бұрын

We still use them.

@lanapowell

2 жыл бұрын

We used cake or roasting pans set on the wood stove :)

"And the fan makes this go even quicklier". You sir, are a treasure.

Ngl, the “it’s brown and therefore excellent” comment caught me off guard and had me chuckling for a solid minute. As a fellow midwesterner who has wrestled with the ultrasonic and boil-ey small humidifiers for years, I will be gleefully taking your advice this winter. Great video!

I have had issues maintaining humidifiers for years, I put a fan/bowl of water/towel set up like yours and bam! No more humidifier issues. It's clean, no particle dust, no mold or bacteria issues, no difficulty cleaning hard to reach crevices. Just clean the bowl and wash the towel. My moisture loving ADHD self thanks you.

The blue light display tangent resonated with me, and i'm glad someone feels the same way. It deserves a whole video.

@TH3C001

2 жыл бұрын

And that little piece of like static-cling window tint he applied, made it look so much better!

@abmoore06

2 жыл бұрын

Even worse for clocks. You have to go out of your way to get one with dull red light instead of the bright blue that lights up your entire town.

@Mayaman67

2 жыл бұрын

Here in SE Asia many air conditioning units have the bright light. I can't sleep. Blu Tac helps

@spacecaptain9188

2 жыл бұрын

Same! I cover all of the lights with electrical tape. I set humidity based on comfort, so I don't need to see the number at all.

@Lem_On_Lime

2 жыл бұрын

Blue LED's are the worst.

"That's why they call it John!" I had to pause there cause I was dying at that joke.

@mayonnaise_pillar

3 жыл бұрын

just don't kill its dog or it's gonna kill your entire neighbourhood

@josephgauthier5018

3 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD!!! that joke went miles over my head XD. so glad i saw your comment lol

Somehow, whenever I get curious about how something works I always find a video here on this channel. Thank you

I put one on our forced air furnace. 10/10 would recommend. It's a box that goes between the intake and hot air side of the furnace. It has a honeycomb wick that the water trickles down over. Any water that isn't evaporated drains out the bottom. Thus not harboring mold dust etc. It has a electronic hydrostat as well as a air valve. So you can control when it runs and how much moisture it adds. Sounds even more simple than a stand alone unit. One moving part is the 24 volt water solenoid I also built one of the spot humidifiers with a bucket, an aquarium water pump, a 120mm computer fan, and a off the shelf humidifier pad for a furnace. Water tickles down the wik and to the bottom and back up. Works great for the area our orchids are in.

I remember at my grandmothers house they just used ceramic containers hanging on the radiators.....fill with water and as soon as the heating came on, water started evaporating. They do get gross though.

@allawa

3 жыл бұрын

Same! We also put a pot of water on a wood stove!

@fizzplease6742

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds simpler to clean though, depending on the shape of the container. My problem with humidifiers is all the nooks and crannies that if not cleaned seemed to get slimy and gross.

@TreniFS_

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you just reminded me I have to fill mine!

@elogy890

3 жыл бұрын

I now remember that at my parent's place, we used to have these plastic containers you could hang onto the radiator with hooks and fill them with water. The heat coming off the radiator ended up making the plastic porous and they started leaking. Fun times!

@1873Winchester

3 жыл бұрын

@@allawa we just line dry out clothes inside

"I had a bit of an Epiphany in recent days." Yeah it was January 6th. You think they'd have a stand alone evaporative humidifier with the ability to be hooked up to supply water, but I guess that starts to get into the realm of those installed ones.

It's funny to me that the episodes on basic household items, which are almost certainly for tax purposes (which is pretty smart), become some of the most interesting content that this channel produces. Microwaves, toasters, coffemakers, heaters, and humidifiers are all fascinating.

Great video. You explained beautifully. I understood a few new things. Well thank you. I put a wet towel on the radiator. I fill him with water every night. It will start to stink over time, but if it's just the smell that gets into the air and not the bacteria, it's okay for me. I plan to make a plastic band that I hang on the radiator. The more bandas, or larger bandas, the more moisture and regulates itself according to humidity.

In Germany, we have little ceramic containers that can be hung onto the radiator and are filled with water. But usually it is enough that we dry our clothes indoor in winter...

Currently watching this while I fill my pre wash detergent compartment on my dishwasher. Love how informative your channel is

@jessicaa.6690

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, I saw that video, too. I've been telling everyone that complains about their dishwasher that using the "pods" doesn't work as well because there is nothing for the prewash. I love this channel.

@k4x4map46

2 жыл бұрын

omg so am I LOL

@rachelt2415

2 жыл бұрын

It takes 30 min to fill your detergent how many dishes are you doing?

@yeetboi7694

2 жыл бұрын

@@rachelt2415 he didn't watch the latest video about too much detergent apparently

@blakksheep736

4 ай бұрын

​@@rachelt2415 😆

A plus to the boiler type is that if one is already using electric heat, the unit is just another source of heat. For my home, the best solution I found was a combination cold/warm mist humidifier. To avoid white dust without having to purchase distilled water, I fill it using water from a Zero Water filter pitcher. (Unlike most filter pitchers, the filter for those removes dissolved solids).

I live in Wisconsin and love that we get a taste of all seasons. With that said I always need to use hand lotion in winter because of cracked hands. Although I recently got a dog so maybe for his sake I will finally breakdown and buy one for us. Never knew there was so many things to know about humidifiers! Thanks for the info!

A 3d printer would be a great investment for this channel. Being able to test theories could be valuable for content.

>go to friend's house >he has a humidifier >pour 2-liter of root beer in it >leave

@caedisnightingale5575

2 жыл бұрын

Evil

@deltab9768

2 жыл бұрын

Once upon a time I saw a question on Yahoo Answers. "What would happen if I peed in a humidifier?"

@grahamfisher5436

2 жыл бұрын

@@caedisnightingale5575 Evil...Genius

@lapis8183

2 жыл бұрын

@@deltab9768 Unus Annus pee sauna

@shawn576

Жыл бұрын

@@deltab9768 "this room suddenly smells like my girlfriend's house"

I love your videos and the amount of effort you put into each one. I really appreciate all your hard work. Thank you for being you.

I have an essential oil diffuser. It is filled with water with a couple of drops of oil added. Sometimes I run it with plain water and it just diffuses water into the air for me! Super convenient, and looks nice too!

"it is brown, and therefore, excellent." Ugh, FINE, I'll go watch the "Brown" video AGAIN.

@M8K2E9

3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Regular be like "BROWNBROWNBROWNBROWNBROWN"

@iz723

3 жыл бұрын

Pfft, I think you mean it's dark orange

@drewbrown706

3 жыл бұрын

Can't argue with that logic.

The bright LEDs are my bane, I have masking tape over every source I can manage in my living space.

@FoulOwl2112

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. I thought l had to be the only sane person to do that! Being that you're clearly of a kindred spirit I'll even share my "generation 2.o version" of our masking tape hack. Instead of JUST tape, I've started adding the little colored paper adhesive sticker labels that are for pricing your stuff at yard sales. You can experiment with different combinations of colored stickers to balance out what is usually a horrible color in LED bulbs. A little masking tape, a couple of red stickers, a yellow and an orange one here and there.... And voila! I've actually got a pleasantly warm LED light.

@realjordanbelfort

3 жыл бұрын

FoulOwl ive taken stuff apart and crushed the bulbs

@kirkjones9445

3 жыл бұрын

I bought a roll of 5% window tint and put that over them. Some sources I put 2 layers on.

@spartan117zm

3 жыл бұрын

My computer case has a bright white LED behind the power switch that is only on when the computer is on. The case also has a tempered glass panel on the side and vents in the front and back that you can see through. So let that sink in. Apparently, that bright LED is the only way I could ever possibly tell that my computer is on. Certainly not the fact that I can literally see the fan running and the other lights inside the case come on. I’ve had that power light long since covered with a piece of electrical tape, as I’ll usually leave my computer running overnight to render/upload stuff.

@Adalore

3 жыл бұрын

@@spartan117zm There is a couple power indicators inside the case of mine. on the motherboard. at least I was able to turn off the RGB lights in bios for when the machine is powered down but plugged in.

When this video was released last winter I created a home-made humidifier with a tub of water, a 15" piece of wire shelving that holds a terrycloth hand towel, and a small space heater set on low fan with high temperature so it runs continuously. Worked great then and I just set it up again yesterday, working great again, has put about 2 gallons in the air in 24 hours. Not even worried about the electricity the fan uses because as you pointed out in a video on space heaters, they are 100% efficient. The energy's not wasted because I'm heating the house anyway. Thanks for your content, I always enjoy watching and often learn something useful!

Brilliant vid. Clear, informative and amusing. You're a great host - I'd watched the whole thing before I knew it.

"It's Brown, and therefore, excellent." Brown or, dark orange?

@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@linux2647

3 жыл бұрын

Orange with context

@SemiZeroGravity

3 жыл бұрын

same thing

@HappilyHomicidalHooligan

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352 Darn, you beat me to it...

@Dargonhuman

3 жыл бұрын

As long as it isn't lightish red, we're good.

"they call it John...I'm sorry, the wick"

@kazlaz4991

3 жыл бұрын

finally someone note the joke

@nthgth

3 жыл бұрын

Surprised he didn't tie it to the recently mentioned "matrix"

@Dawad2007

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know right

I have one of those big brown house humidifiers from Sears from 1970’s. No LED display, but the evaporator belt moved through the water in the bottom then up to the top and back down to the water. Humidity was controlled via a dial, fan speed by another dial. Still working.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! For including metric system (Celsius in this case) in your videos.

Chief: "what's that?" Monk: "a humidifier." Chief: "and what's that?" Monk: "a dehumidifier." Chief: "don't they... Kinda... Cancel each other out?" Monk: "exactly!"

@yonatanbeer3475

3 жыл бұрын

everything in balance

@edwardfanboy

3 жыл бұрын

Think about it like this: You can teleport water!

@cezarcatalin1406

3 жыл бұрын

id523a Lmao

cool, but when can we expect a dehumidifier episode coming out? I'd love to hear you ramble about those!

@harpingon

3 жыл бұрын

Running the two devices next to each other is a recipe for all kinds of WINNING

@diegosanchez894

3 жыл бұрын

Thunderfoot bursts through the door "NOT! ENERGY! EFFICIENT!!!!!!".

@diegosanchez894

3 жыл бұрын

@@harpingon Wireless (or pipeless?) water transmission: it's wifi, for water!!

@girishradhakrishnan2699

3 жыл бұрын

@@diegosanchez894 hahahahahaha

that dimming decal looks so incredibly good I can't believe it isn't on it by default...

When I was a kid, we had standing radiators for heat... our standard winter humidifier method was a pan of water on top of the radiator. When we purchased our home with hot water baseboard heat, we got a console humidifier, but ours had two-2.5 gal. jugs, but I discovered that the vents were high enough that I could fill it with 5-gal plus the jugs to provide enough water to get it to run for 24-hours (our house was very dry...). After we renovated, we ended up putting in one that is installed in the basement and is tied into our Nest thermostat. This unit blows humid air through a floor register and has a direct connection to the hot water supply. It has a "wick" in it, but unlike the wick in the console models, this one has the water enter form the top and cascade down it as a fan draws air through it...

"even quicklier" my new favorite phrase!

I've got a hot air humidifier with the tank on the side rather than the bottom that I love. It's also vicks but it is advertised as a humidifier unlike the other one. For just worrying about one space at a time, it's pretty fast at dumping out water and doubles as an OK space heater. I assume it just runs hotter than the one you've got, but there may be more differences.

ok that ending was solid. love to hear a great motivator for diy to test out a concept before buying possible landfill waste