Ultrasonic humidifier and water calcium

[zztop]

I've been looking into getting ultrasonic humidifier for my cheese cave. I've recently come across posts that talk about how they disperse calcium that would be in the water. Ultimately you end up with a fine coat of calcium dust on everything.

Does anyone have any experience with this ?

Is this something I should be concerned about ?


Now one of the ways to deal with this is to distilled water.  This can be really inconvenient and costly depending on how much water your humidifier uses. So another question:

How much water does your humidifier use on a daily basis ?

Regards,
Mike

[ellenspn]

How big of a humidifier?  How large of a cave? 

[Hande]

You can try store bought natural water.
That cheap one what is in large 1-2gallon bottle.
I use it , and 5 litre bottle goes at 6 days. and it cost 1.8 euro.

Hande

[DeejayDebi]

I have a cheap "Pure" water fillter on my tap and it seems to work well for cleaning water for cheese making and sausage making.

[ArnaudForestier]

I can only offer my experience using them in my home, in what was once a fairly extensive plant collection (tons of palms, etc).  I hated them, for precisely the reason you mention.  For what it's worth, I'm quite happy with my cool-mist humidifiers, holding 3 gallons, with an internal digital humidistat going up to 90% RH.  I find I can tweak out another 5% or so by an odd assembly of pans and suspended cloths (in the pans), so my cave maintains a regular 94-96%.  I just use tap water.  Lots of people are obviously very happy with UH's, though...(imagine DeejayDebi and Hande use them - right, guys? - and both are accomplished craftspeople) so just wanted to toss in my experience.

[DeejayDebi]

Actually I tryied using an UH for a few months and only got more mold. I imagine that is because my stage one fridge is a small cube type that sits on my microwave. I went back to the hanging cheesecloth and stray water on it when my gauge starts to drop. It's worked for 30 years why mess with success?

[ArnaudForestier]

30 years....man, had no idea.  Congrats, Debi.