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I’m dealing with dry air, and the humidifiers I had bought before got the tiniest grits of dust or something in them and leaked their whole tank of water. Turns out they needed purified water or distilled water to function long term.

I just want to put tap water into a thing and get humidity into the air. Any suggestions?

Edit, they were indeed ultrasonic humidifiers.

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I couldn’t remember if it cycled water or not and peeked at the user manual which is linked on that page. It says to use tap water and if it is working to slowly to add some salt!

      It does have directions for cleaning if hard water causes issues, and I remember it being pretty easy to clean as we did so once a month or so.

      You don’t have to add any of the vicks stuff either. We just used it as a plain old humidifier.