Cigar Oasis XL Short Refill Cartridge

I like this short tank because it fits in the top tray of my humidor. I've had a cigar oasis for over 10 years now and it still works great. Can't have a humidor with a cigar oasis. The cigar oasis keeps my stogs in great condition.

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Air-O-Swiss AOS 7146 Travel Ultrasonic Humidifier - Cool Mist

This unit is the original travel/portable humidifier. I shopped around and looked at the several imitators, but decided to go with the Air-O-Swiss name/reputation that I know and love.

This unit is tiny, and comes with a power adapter with both US and European plugs and a soft cloth carry bag.

I use it at McMurdo Station, Antarctica where the average humidity is in the single digits. It puts out less water than my full-size Air-O-Swiss unit at home, but a remarkable amount for a unit this size.

The blue light that others have complained about is fairly bright as most blue LEDs are but it's no brighter than most night-lights, and hasn't bothered my sleep. The blue light switches to a red light when the water runs out... kind of a nice heads-up feature if you don't have the output set high enough to see the "steam" coming from the spout.

Overall, I wouldn't hesitate to make this purchase again, and I'd replace this unit with the same if needed (unless or until Air-O-Swiss comes out with their own new replacement/upgrade). There are a couple other copies that are less expensive, but I haven't tried them I went with the quality/service that I trusted at the cost of the higher price tag.

PROs: operates very quietly and very compact great for travel and personal use by bedside at home. Bottle neck adapter has two (2) size fittings for use with standard plastic bottle. Adapter is very tight inside bottle's neck so water does not leak out. When turned upside down, metal ball stopper is water tight. Fold out 'feet' to mitigate tipping though it may not be sufficient to prevent tipping with larger bottles eg: one liter bottles. Has variable humidity adjustment which works reasonably well too.

CONs: bottle neck adapter fits into inside of bottle mouth it is not a 'screw on' adapter. A positive about this is that it'll work with standard sized bottles (supports two sizes) however removal and insertion of adapter into bottle neck is VERY tight. Some plastic bottles are very thin walled. Press fitting the adapter can be problematic as bottle's wall may collapse from applied pressure during insertion. Therefore thicker walled plastic is recommended esp. if/when larger bottle is being used. Seniors with limited hand mobility may also find it difficult to manipulate due to tight fit. NOTE: though unit comes with stabilizing pullout feet, filled bottle is simply inserted into receptor there is nothing to 'clamp' adapter and bottle to hold it in place ergo care should be taken as bottle can be knocked off unit easily. The water tight adapter will prevent the water escaping from the bottle however weight from falling bottle can/might cause damage to surrounding objects.

WARNing: Due to relative ease with which unit might tip, use of glass bottle is not recommended. Use in child's room may also not be recommended.

SUM: at price point and intended use, pros out weigh cons and therefore worthwhile purchase. Had adapter come with rubber 'O' rings for easier insertion and if adapter could have been clamped in more securely, it would have deserved 5 stars. CONs however only earns it 4 stars IMHO.

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After my government issued ID and money, this amazing gadget is the third key thing I would take on a trip to a dry place. After three miserable trips to Phoenix where my eyes were dry and red and I felt tired and miserable, I brought this portable humidifier for the fourth trip (in as many months). What a difference it makes to sleep with the thing lacing the air with balmy droplets of water. I wish I had had it on other trips to other arid places (including, incidentally, Beijing), but also the many arid places in the Middle East, such as Riyadh. I also plan on taking it to any place cold enough to require forced air heating in winter. I really like shoes, but will leave a pair behind to accommodate this humidifier in my usual complement of carry-on baggage. It's that good!

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This review is for the Air-O-Swiss Portable Travel Humdifier (7146).

I bought this unit to help when I travel as I often have troubles with overly dry air. The unit comes with a nice felt carry bag, the nebulizer, the power supply, cleaning brush, and bottle adapter, all of which easily fit in the bag.

I have tried this unit out a few times, and it works well, but, you have to remember that it is a very small unit, and will not turn a large room into a steamy sauna. It is however enough to make a regular sized (300-400 sq foot) hotel room or office comfortable and "take the edge off." It will do about 500 mls in roughly 4-5 hours of time on full output.

It is very quiet, with more noise being made by the occasionaly "burp" of air into the bottle (kind of like a mini water dispenser) than anything else. The mist output is very fine, and evaporates rapidly into the air without leaving a soggy mess beneath it, (though I still wouldn't place it on any important papers).

Assembly is easy, plug the wall wart in to your power source, and then into the back of the unit and flip the legs out on the bottom. Get a small 500ml (17-20oz) water bottle, fill it with water, firmly push/twist the adapter into the open top, and then gently invert onto the unit, flip open the mist output, and turn it on. The output control knob is on the same side as the power cord, which is opposite the mist output.

There's no latches or anything to hold the bottle in place so make sure the unit is on something flat and stable. The adapter has a steel ball valve in it to keep the water from rushing out uncontrolled, but still allow it to "burp" as the unit needs more water.

The only thing I did not like about the unit was that while on it has a *very* bright blue LED on it that lights up the mist output to show you it's working. Unfortunately it lights up the room as well. If you're sensitive to such things, it may make it difficult to sleep as it is really bright, however some black electrical tape or a sharpie could easily fix that issue. The LED will turn red when the unit is out of water, and of course the output will cease.

Pros: Small, relatively lightweight, quiet, very fine mist output.

Cons: Bright LED lighting.

Edit: May 2011

Just came back from a long weekend in Las Vegas where it was very windy and dry. I had set up the unit to run while I was out of the hotel room, and when I came back I could easily notice the humidity in the room when walked in a few hours later. Again, not a steamy sauna, but definitely a noticeable difference from the dry desert air and the air-conditioned casino air. It's currently in my office at work in SD where we are having a very dry and windy few days, and the small hygrometer I have in my office shows about a 10% increase (from ~35% to ~45%) from when I turned it on a couple of hours ago.

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I bought this for travel about a year ago, but find that I use it at home as well despite having 3 full-size humidifers I could use instead.

I have two full size air-o-swiss ultrasonic humidifiers and a vicks ultrasonic at home. However, this unit is so easy to use and takes up such a tiny bit of space that I have been using it at home as well as traveling. My other big units are just collecting dust in the garage now.

Part of the beauty of this unit is how easy it is to fill you just use one of your empty water bottles. No big heavy container to lug to the sink and hope you don't spill on the way back. In addition, it is super easy to keep clean because it is so tiny. you just need to brush the small chamber where the ultrasonic membrane is located and it comes with a little cleaning brush. The large humidifiers have so many nooks and crannies that they're a real pain to keep clean. Even those with the ionic silver that supposedly retards microbe growth still get gross inside.

I highly recommend this as both a night time at home and travel humidifier. If you live somewhere dry and need a humidifier 24/7,then perhaps it's not the right one for you. But for intermittant use it is perfect!

NOTE: I first tried the similar unit by sunpentown and it had very poor performance so I returned it for this one. Perhaps I just had a bad unit, but based on that experience I cannot recommend the sunpentown unit despite the similar look and size to this one.Sunpentown SU-1051W Travel-Size Personal Humidifier, White

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Classic Lattice Top Woodstove Steamer Mister Humidifier - Porcelain coated Cast Iron - BLACK w SPEC

This woodstove steamer is very nice and very well made. It looks great and very effective at putting moisture into the room. I'm very happy with this product and the shipping was fast as well.

I don't know if it is the porcelain coating or what, but this woodstove steamer does not work as well as the last one we had. It also does not hold as much water. Not very happy with it.

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Vicks Advanced Soothing Vapors Waterless Vaporizer

We purchased this for our baby's room when she was teething and having trouble sleeping at night. The plug-in itself is great because you can adjust the intensity of the aroma; you can also insert one VapoPad or two, which further controls the intensity. It also has a soft green night light.

The VapoPad has very soothing aromatic vapors: Rosemary Oil, Eucalyptus Oil, and Lavendar Oil. These aromas are all ideal for calming, relaxation, and sleeping. The unit comes with four VapoPads. You can purchase refills when you have used all of them: Vicks Soothing Vapors Replacement Pads.

My husband loves it so much we purchased one for our room!

*It should be noted that this particular Vicks product is not for congestion, but rather for soothing and comfort.

I don't know if this is a glorified air freshener or not but whatever it is my son hasn't made a peep for the last 2 nights we have used it. He was sleeping horribly because of a nasty cold. The night we plugged this in he rolled over, closed his eyes & we didn't hear from him til morning, as well as the next night. Maybe he was feeling better, maybe he was just that exhausted and it's a coincidence but I can't say anything negative about them. Oh... well, the aroma is a bit overwhelming at first but that didn't seem to bother my son. The low setting is high enough.

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I really love this product. The amount of light that it gives off is just right, and the scent does work to keep my son snuffle-free at night. I really do hate the smell of the pads that are used, however. I like the smell of menthol that the vaporizer gives off, but the pads themselves smell awfully, and I dread having to change it!

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This vaporizer is good for colds. It clears stuffy noses so we're able to breathe at night while we're sleeping. This is a must have for the winter. I'm very happy with this product.

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Turn on the cool mist humidifier and this little bad boy and close the bedroom door and sleep well. We have used this about 30 times with our little one and although pricey for the replacement pads , your little ones comfort and sleep is worth any dollar amount! Buy the essential oils baby toddler pad replacements for the best most natural way of relieving clogged sinuses and cough. Propping the bed a little helps too along with some all natural chest rub.

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Venta Airwasher Llc 5044536 Lw44 Wht Airwasher

I just bought the double unit because I've always loved my first one, but now live in a bigger house (still small by the Venta sq footage. I've discovered that if you use a much bigger Venta than your room needs for the airwashing, it will also humidify to some extent. The only thing I never liked about the system was the expensive accessory fluids you had to buy to "soften" the water and to clean the inevitable deposits. Can you say disgusting? The "sheeting/softening" stuff is like some kind of water soluable oil/kerosene product that will coat the finely ribbed plastic inner wheel and sticks all the gunk that it has taken out of the air and it CANNOT be scrubbed off. So when I used the Venta Airwasher Cleaner, it mostly came off, but I ended up buying way too much of that stuff and washing it more often than they specified because I could not bear to know all that gunk was in there circulating! I used it without the "sheeting agent" and some kind of naturally occurring orange colored algae stuff started appearing after 3 days. Still hard to clean.

Finally, desperately, I discovered was that the water tub unit and the finicky plastic inner wheel could be put into my dishwasher, run at regular warm temperatures (I use a natural powdered dishwashing detergent) and no more gunk and no more orange algae! I run it once a week and other than that the unit works great. I can see all kinds of things in the water that it takes out and then inexpensively and happily, a clean Airwasher without any scrubbing.

Well the company won't like this, and maybe they will say the unit isn't really doing anything, but I feel it does and now I love this unit (and it's smaller older cousin)

I wish it did not cost so much but this is a great design. It both humidifies and cleans the air. There are no filters to get dirty. What more do I need to say?

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So far this unit has been flawless, quiet to operate, easy to keep clean and to fill, humidifies well even though our room is much larger than its largest capacity, so despite it being quite expensive like a Mercedes it seems to do everything very very well and user friendly

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No more filters, no more fine white dust -just an easy to use, easy to maintain, clean, quiet, efficient humidifier! Why this should be such a rarity should be a question for all the OTHER really bad humidifier manufacturers out there.

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Honeywell Whole House Fan-Powered Humidifier w/ Installation Kit HE360A1075

I've ran this humidifier for over a year now. Despite frequent water pad changes, cleaning, and careful installation, the thing leaks like a sieve on the bottom seam where the two pieces meet. The water draining mechanism is poorly designed and not tolerant to any change in state from 'brand new'. I would strongly recommend considering a different manufacturer. Otherwise, invest in a plastic bucket to put on the floor under the humidifier. Good lord how could they build such a thing and slap their name on it.

Did not use this product as my duckwork was not large enought to mount unit, seemed to be well made with everything included that you would need to install.

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HDC-411 Emerson Humidifier Wick Filter (2 Pack)

I bought these last year for half the price of the HDC-411, but set them aside as soon as I saw that these were NOT Emerson/Essicks HDC-411. Caught with a need to suddenly switch my Emerson humidifier's filters, I've now used them and they STINK!

PROS:

None at all, as in "Golly, these are worthless junk, but at least I save a couple bucks!"

CONS:

Weak won't stand up or support the funnel shroud.

Flimsy not enough material to draw up and hold lots of water the way the Emerson filters work.

Cheaply made instead of layers of fan-fold impressed filter media, this is a cheap stamping of just

a few layers of thin filter paper laminated on each side of thin aluminum core sheets.

Short-lived: I'm used to getting 75-90 days use out of Emerson/Essick HDC-411 filters, but these fail in

JUST TWO WEEKS!! The problem is LACK OF MATERIAL.

Save your money and shell out for the real thing (look closely at the photos and watch out for trick words like "Aftermarket", which often means that the product has NOTHING to do with the product you want!

The filter is very different from the one I have been using. The replacement fits and is working to date. I have yet to determine its performance.

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The vendor performed 100%, prompt shipment, accurate. Product was as advertised. Recommend 100%.

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You cannot beat these for the price. I am going to start ordering a years supply from them, and it would make the deal even better.

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Replaced old ones and fit perfectly. Happy to have the humidifier running again. House is so dry when not running