Your English is perfect to me! Not even a spelling mistake!

Evere notice those electrode steamers will not work with distilled water as
it is an insulator to electrical currents? You have to clean them. No way
around it.


"Vlad" wrote in message
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On 15 Feb 2005 09:41:13 -0800, (Nagliar) wrote:

In this case GimmieButt is totally correct. The type that uses heat,
as he stated, to evaporate the water are called "vaporizers", not
"humidifiers". Some may call them kettles also :)

Why would you feed that brainless troll M II? He never has anything of
value to add or even wants to discuss the topic.

There is a also forth type that has live electrodes in the water and
creates steam that way.

Anthony Matonak wrote in message
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m II wrote:
Gymmie Bob wrote:

Portable humidifiers do not typically use heat to evaporate the
water.
The
heat from the room is used.
...
They DON'T use the heat in the room. Well, maybe in Gymmy Land, but
nowhere else.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/iyh/p...umidifiers.htm

Well, surprising as it is, GB is 2/3 correct. As that webpage
indicates, there are three types of humidifiers. One uses a
hot coil to boil water and create steam. One uses an ultrasonic
driver to suspend tiny water droplets in the air and one uses
an atomizer to spray tiny water droplets into the air. The
last two rely on the fact that the tiny water droplets will
evaporate. This evaporation uses heat from the air.

There are also the swamp cooler style humidifiers where air
is blown through/past a wet pad. These also use the heat in
the air to evaporate the water. Typically they aren't portable
though.

Anthony

You mention ANY type of humidifier and I can tell you that I have
tryed them all, My stainless kitchen sink has black spots from the
type that uses the conductivity of the water to generate steam. Call
them vaporizers humidifiers or super life savers if you want.

Large humidifiers use mainly steam because it adds vapor generated by
distilled water into the rooms. Most of the unwanted garbage that
comes on the water, bacteria included, stays on the boiling container
and must be cleaned, usually, once a year.

The type that stores the water on the surface of some material and
them operates like your clothes dryer is probably the worse for
bacteria grow and distribution. Your dryer does a good job because
you replace the wet material every time it dries.

There are the so called vaporizers that use an ultrasonic transducer
and a small blower, but they also disperse the unwanted garbage in
the water. Same people use distilled water but the cost and
inconvenience are too much trouble.

The first thing to do is removed the top of the cover . We don't need
it and we must have room to install the a water level sensor, wich is
the main problem with the kettle. We need a mechanism tah will
maintain the water level at the proper level, not a trivial task since
the water is in constant ebullition. At the present I am using an
encapsulated mercury switch attached to a lever with a floating bulb
at the end. That operates an electric valve connected to the water
supply. The bulb breaks if simultaneously exposed to different
temperatures like cold water. By making a loop on the copper tube
that supply the water inside of the kettle, to raise the water
temperature before it's release and reducing the water flow to a
trickle the problem is solved.

I had two minor floods during the last 5 years. The first was caused
by a cracked bulb caused the system to "think" that the water was at
low level and continued to supply water until the problem is
corrected. The second was caused by a rusted component on the same
mechanism.

Kettles have their on safety system that protects them from over
heating if there is no water. Late models use a sealed popping sensor
that does a good job. Easy to test. If you power a kettle without
water, it will click on and off for days and will not likely create
any problem.

As a extra precaution I have installed a larger tray under the kettle
with a drainage tube that exhausts the water if the float fails.
Of course, since I installed this, the system never failed.

Sorry for my poor English but it isn't my mother's language.
Some times and don't even understand it myself.

Vlad