I foolishly bought one off the top of the best-seller list at Amazon a couple years ago. It was like $35 and came with a little card that said "Hey, if you give us a 5 star review and send proof to SHADY_EMAIL_ADDRESS@gmail we'll give you a $25 Amazon gift card!"
It did work reasonably well, but if you failed to clean it and fully dry it out within 6 hours of using it, it would get an INSANE mildew smell.
Amazon of course didn't bother to do anything about the company when I tried to report them, and they seem to have disappeared/rebranded since then
My teakettle is moist for hours, some of my dishes are moist for hours, they don't smell like mildew. I'm in the bone dry south bay in a warm house
My guess is water is getting trapped somewhere in the device's Chinesium crevices, or maybe they found a way to make plastic cheaper by making it susceptible to mold.
Ours just runs until dry. Pretty sure it’s ultrasonic but it’s cheap and there’s never been a smell. Those are the joys of living someplace you really need a humidifier. Water just disappears.
You have to add bleach or humidistat to evaporative ones or keep them running full time. You also have to replace the media once a month or so. The steam ones are better imho.
It did work reasonably well, but if you failed to clean it and fully dry it out within 6 hours of using it, it would get an INSANE mildew smell.
Amazon of course didn't bother to do anything about the company when I tried to report them, and they seem to have disappeared/rebranded since then