In the spirit of fictitious cartoon character1I make the distinction because certain presidents-elect seem unclear on which people are real or not. Grandpa Simpson, I tied an onion to my belt and made my own humidifier by boiling a pot of water on the stove.
Some stats for reference below. This is stuff that will be interesting to no one but me, so I will include a picture of a cat at the end. If you don’t like cats, pretend it’s a dog with funny ears.
- Starting humidity in living room: 24% (low)1
- Time for water to boil enough to change humidity: 15 minutes, rising to 25% (OK)
- After 30 minutes: Humidity is 28% (OK) and about 2 cm of water has boiled away
- After 45 minutes: Humidity is 31% (OK), about half the water has boiled away
- After 60 minutes: Humidity is 35% (OK), water is down to a few cm
- I shut the boiling water off just over one hour in
Our ex-humidifier was cool air and used a wick/filter design. I am wondering now if warm air might be better. Things to ponder.
And now, a cat I saw on Mastodon:
- This appears to be the threshold for when it slips from being OK to Low. ↩︎
