ComfortBreeze CB777 Atomizing Humidifier

I saw the other customers product review and thought I should share my experience as a contractor. We installed the older version of this humidifier in a high end cigar humidoor in a clients house about 8 years ago. Cigars must be kept at a consistent temperature and humidity level at all times. So we used this unit set up with a humidistat, its own water supply, ro water filter system, drain lift pump and flood stop sensors, all built into a water proof basin and installed in a attic behind the humidoor. It has basically ran non-stop for 8 years without any problems (yeah 8 years, appliances don't last that long these days, everything is disposable cr ap, washer dryer central air, you name it, it has a 6year life. So 8 years on this little guy is great as far as I'm concerned, But back to the review). It does however get some barnacle looking funk build up in it after awhile, easily cleaned buy taking the upper part outside or to a sink and rinsing it out once or twice a year. Now it is installed directly behind the humidoor, not far to push the humid air. It you expect this to push air to your whole house, it won't, its not meant to. I would suggest setting it up inline with your hvac system, so it pumps the humidity into the duct and the air handler pushes it threw the house. The float switch works fine and seems adequate to me. It was slightly noisy due to vibration, to resolve we put it on a foam drawer liner and used a few squeeze clamps on the top and bottom pieces. For water supply we used 1/4" tubbing at normal house pressure (fyi thats typically around 35psi at the meter), no problems with a leak ever, although we still took the precaution of the flood stop sensors. After 8 years the motor has finally died, which is why I'm here to purchase a replacement unit. Good productif you set it up correctly.

I've order this unit to use as a whole house humidifier. From a description it looked like a "the one" product I was looking for. Boy, what a surprise it was when I got the package and opened the box. Where do I start. Are you ready? it came in nicely packed box, and that the only positive thing I can say about it. Upon ignition evaluation, I was looking for UL label and couldn't find one. It definitely didn't peal off as I've check the box and it wasn't there. That tells me that this product was NEVER UL listed. If you're HAVAC pro like myself, installing it for a customer would be a bomb waiting to go off. If they get electrocuted or burn down the house, it would be your fault. But I was gonna install it in my own house. So I was gonna take a chance. What could possibly go work with such as primitively designed humidifier? After all, it looked like I've received a half working prototype, cause nobody in their right mind would try to mass produce it and hope sucker me would buy it, right? So, I assembled it, hooked up cord, added water and turned it on. I manually filled with a water, as I didn't have too much faith in built in float switch. Flimsy valve with a float didn't look liked it would hold 60psi city water pressure. It had overflow hole with a metal bushing, but it must be a metric size, as I couldn't find a hose that would fit it. Humidified is using direct drive motor with centrifugal plastic fan that sucks water from plastic tray and mixing it with air and discharge from the top. Any excess water drips back around motor back into tray. Simple design with a primitive execution. Centrifugal fan is plastic and unbalanced. High RPM and sucked water make it vibrate like it's category 5 earthquake. Plastic tray comes with a wire rack that you supposed to attach to furnace plenum. Designers forgot that these vibrations will carry via metal duct system throughout whole house.