Hi,
I have a humidifier attached to my furnace hot air duct. I think my
humidifier is the simplest kind of humidifier that I have found in my
local home department store. Water pours into a container, and hot air
(part of it) would pass over the accumulated water. This causes water
evaporates. There is no any humidity adjusting option. Now I am
thinking of gettng a new and more advanced humidifer. My local Home
Depot store sells AirKing and HoneyWell brands. The one that I am
interested in allows water trickles over a metalic mesh. It has two
connection, one to cold air duct (inlet to furnace) and another to hot
ait duct (furnace outlet). I assume the cold air sucks into the
humidifier as soon as the furnace kick in. Is that correct? The
manufacturere(Honewell) says that the humidifer is good for a house
with up yo 2800 sq. ft. Mine is about 2000 sq ft. Is this humidifier
really adds up the air water content, or there is not a big difference
from what I have now. I don't want to spend money and ends up with no
improvemnet.

thanks in advance for your help
Fardin

On 19 Jan 2004 14:47:35 -0800, (FardinA)
wrote:

Hi,
I have a humidifier attached to my furnace hot air duct. I think my
humidifier is the simplest kind of humidifier that I have found in my
local home department store. Water pours into a container, and hot air
(part of it) would pass over the accumulated water. This causes water
evaporates. There is no any humidity adjusting option. Now I am
thinking of gettng a new and more advanced humidifer. My local Home
Depot store sells AirKing and HoneyWell brands. The one that I am
interested in allows water trickles over a metalic mesh. It has two
connection, one to cold air duct (inlet to furnace) and another to hot
ait duct (furnace outlet). I assume the cold air sucks into the
humidifier as soon as the furnace kick in. Is that correct? The
manufacturere(Honewell) says that the humidifer is good for a house
with up yo 2800 sq. ft. Mine is about 2000 sq ft. Is this humidifier
really adds up the air water content, or there is not a big difference
from what I have now. I don't want to spend money and ends up with no
improvemnet.

I have a Honeywell unit as you describe and it works great in my 4500
sq ft house. II have a humidistat mounted on the main floor next to
the thermostat - I can easily adjust the humidy for different outside
air temperatures and it maintains a good minimum level.

Here is a link to the Honeywell site.

http://content.honeywell.com/yourhom...y/humidity.htm

Here is the specific model:
http://content.honeywell.com/yourhom...lowthrough.htm

Be aware that if you have hard water, you have to replace the media
every season, as it gets really gunked up with minerals. I have a
water softener and the media gets caked with salt, but soaking a few
hours in the laundry tub gets it all off. Servicing is quick and
simple. You should have a manual air damper installed in the supply
duct so you can shut off the airflow in summer.

John Davies
Spokane WA USA

I like the ones with a drain under them -- the water flows through, and into
the drain. That helps prevent buildup of minerals and scale on the media
pad.

--

Christopher A. Young
Jesus: The Reason for the Season
www.lds.org
www.mormons.com


"FardinA" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a humidifier attached to my furnace hot air duct. I think my
humidifier is the simplest kind of humidifier that I have found in my
local home department store. Water pours into a container, and hot air
(part of it) would pass over the accumulated water. This causes water
evaporates. There is no any humidity adjusting option. Now I am
thinking of gettng a new and more advanced humidifer. My local Home
Depot store sells AirKing and HoneyWell brands. The one that I am
interested in allows water trickles over a metalic mesh. It has two
connection, one to cold air duct (inlet to furnace) and another to hot
ait duct (furnace outlet). I assume the cold air sucks into the
humidifier as soon as the furnace kick in. Is that correct? The
manufacturere(Honewell) says that the humidifer is good for a house
with up yo 2800 sq. ft. Mine is about 2000 sq ft. Is this humidifier
really adds up the air water content, or there is not a big difference
from what I have now. I don't want to spend money and ends up with no
improvemnet.

thanks in advance for your help
Fardin