Travel Humidifier for grow tent - What water to use?

TCH

TCH

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I picked up a travel humidifier for my 3x3 tent. It is the kind that you can put in a bottle of water or jar. Every humidifier I ha e ever seen or used has said to use distilled water to prevent buildup and stuff. This one says specifically says to use clean tap water and not to use filtered or distilled water. It is Chinese made and I'm guessing that it may be lost in translation, but want to make sure I'm not wrecking something by using RO water.
 
Smscreations

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I've heard using distilled to prolong the life of it. If you got the one I recommended, I've used straight tap water and have noticed very little buildup anywhere on it. I will say that it no long stays running for 8 hours/or when water runs out. But, it'll cut off whenever it feels like it. Not sure if it's the tap water or the 12$ price tag quality haha.
 
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DCcan

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Old tek that used heat to make steam needed distilled water and a pinch of salt to work propery.
Pure water wouldn't conduct electricity, too much salt/hard tap water made them overheat and steam all your water off.
 
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TCH

TCH

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Smscreations said:
I've heard using distilled to prolong the life of it. If you got the one I recommended, I've used straight tap water and have noticed very little buildup anywhere on it. I will say that it no long stays running for 8 hours/or when water runs out. But, it'll cut off whenever it feels like it. Not sure if it's the tap water or the 12$ price tag quality haha.
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It is the one you recommended. I will try the tap water and see how it does.
 
TCH

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farmerfischer said:
Yeah its asking for distilled water to prevent calcium/lime/iron build up
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Thats the thing. It is asking for tap water. Every humidifier I have ever had in the past asked for distilled water to prevent the scaly buildup. I was just curious because the broken English in the manual makes we wonder if they got it mixed up.
 
farmerfischer

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TCH said:
Thats the thing. It is asking for tap water. Every humidifier I have ever had in the past asked for distilled water to prevent the scaly buildup. I was just curious because the broken English in the manual makes we wonder if they got it mixed up.
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It shouldnt matter with the cheap filter kind.. just hard water might fuck up the filter quickly
 
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ANC

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I've never seen a piezo humidifier last long. The better brands will have a replaceable actuator.
That being said, the water particles being created are larger than ideal. Steam or evaporation is still much better.

Also I have never run a humidifier in a tent. it seems unneccesary.
 
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ANC said:
I've never seen a piezo humidifier last long. The better brands will have a replaceable actuator.
That being said, the water particles being created are larger than ideal. Steam or evaporation is still much better.

Also I have never run a humidifier in a tent. it seems unneccesary.
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Right. In a tent when lights out humidity should climb like a mofo.. not realy necessary unless you have a spidermite problem
 
DCcan

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It never mixes properly in a tent, need to humidify the source of the air, like the lung room.

I put a small humidifier ~2ft away from intake duct in Winter, turns off at lights out.
Don't have to humidify the whole room, just the source of air.
 
DrDukePHD

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DCcan said:
It never mixes properly in a tent, need to humidify the source of the air, like the lung room.

I put a small humidifier ~2ft away from intake duct in Winter, turns off at lights out.
Don't have to humidify the whole room, just the source of air.
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What model humidifier are you guys using? I'm gonna pick one up.
 
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1212ham

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I like my Inkbird Reptile Humidifier. The output is much higher when used in the tent without the hose.

Use RO water in cool mist / ultrasonic humidifiers to prevent mineral deposits everywhere. :wink:

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