Anyone uses one of these? How is it working for you? I was thinking about a room humidifier and if that can work in my small 1 BR apartment.
I've recently relocated to Chicago and it's currently -14C / 7F outside, which is unheard of for an Australian. In my apartment with the HVAC the air is so dry and I'm trying to find a way to stop my guitar moving like crazy. I won't do a sponge style humidifier because I absolutely won't keep my guitar shut up in the case, I don't like that.
Don't know what the humidity in here is but I've just gone on ebay to order a digital hygrometer, somehow my eyes glossed over the digital ones and I ended up ordering
this gnarly looking thing instead. Well hopefully it will still be accurate to +/- 5% because Bob said as long as your between 40-60% you're golden.
But my concern is that the HVAC and the room humidifier would just fight it out all the time and the HVAC would probably win this battle.
Advice/suggestions?
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Its a 4 gallon thing with 2 side tanks. Very quiet and as effective as it needs to be .
I'm heating my little studio with a small Pelonis heater which pushes air past a heated element.
Very drying.
So the Vornado takes care of things and because its a 4 gallon lasts for days. If thats too big go for the smaller model. The big one is quieter though.
http://www.ufox.fi/ilmankostuttimet
With one of these I can keep the humidity around 50%.
One thing you need to know about digital hygrometers is that they can show a reading that can be much lower than the actual humidity is. I have a calibrated analog hygrometer and I've compared my digital hygrometer to it and it can show for example 25% even though then analog shows 40%.
Swang on,
http://www.kenmore.com/kenmore-humidifier-with-14-gallon-daily-output/p-03215420000P
http://www.essickair.com/humidifier-831000.html
You better do something Wim or else your guitar will start to sound like a cigar box pretty soon.