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Were your humidifiers just not good at making air moist? Or were they completely non-functional?

Technology Connections had a good video on the quality of humidifiers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28

I bought the one he didn't like (the electrode boiler) after watching that video (and his tear-down video [1]). (I have hard water and have had trouble with ultrasonic humidifiers.) It works great! You do have to descale it regularly to keep it going.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC9-t47tKts

You don't really need to. It will keep working regardless, just toss some salt in the water.

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