Good Humidifier, Low Maintenance

This humidiifer uses a filter similar to the Honeywell unit that I had on my house furnace. It is easy to operate and has low maintenance. Since it is evaporative, you don't need to worry about dust in the air. I fill the unit once in the morning and once at night. The holding basin should be cleaned out once per week to avoid mineral build-up.

There appears to be a design/manufacturing problem with the pump on the original unit I received. After one week, the pump started making noise. Not exactly the quiet operation they had advertised. I received different information on how to get the unit repaired from Hunter Customer Support. The first person I talked to wanted me to return the entire unit at my expense. A week later, another person sent out a replacement unit free-of-charge. The new unit is working ok so far.

The original unit I had a problem with was manufactured in August 2003. The new unit just arrived in Hunter's inventory, so hopefully the noise problem should be resolved.