Please redirect if there is a more appropriate community for this question.

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.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    You can add bacteriostatic/algaecide stuff to a tank of water, helps discourage bacteria or algae from growing in it.

    I don’t think I’ve seen it coming up for humidifiers, but for evaporative coolers – which are more-or-less just very-high-throughput humidifiers – I’ve seen recommendations to stick something like that in. I use a very dilute disinfectant, can’t recall the name off the top of my head.