Essick Air 4-Speed Tower Humidifier, D46 720

by Essick Air

Product Features

• Keeps multiple rooms humid while taking up very little space
• Digital controls offer precise humidity monitoring and control
• 4-speed motor humidifies up to 1300 square feet
• Dual water tanks hold 3 gallons
• 15 x 15 x 26.5 inches; 1-year limited warranty with 2-year warranty on motor

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 14.5 x 26.2 inches ; 15.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0012KO7DS
• Item model number: D46 720
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,439 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)
  • #65 in Home & Kitchen > Heating, Cooling & Air Quality > Humidifiers & Vaporizers

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Keep several rooms or even your entire home comfortable with the Essick Air 4-Speed Tower Humidifier. Its 4-speed motor can humidify up to 1300 square feet, and its quiet nighttime setting won’t disturb your sleep. The attractive tower unit takes up very little space too. The digital controls are easy to use, and the automatic humidistat lets you monitor and control the humidity to your liking. The dual easy-to-fill water tanks hold 3 gallons total. Their handles and locking clips make them easy to fill. 15 x 15 x 26.5 inches. 1-year limited warranty with 2-year warranty on motor.

Product Description

This attractive tower unit is cabable of humidifying multiple rooms while taking up minimal space. It's digital controls offer precise humidity monitoring and control. Humidifies 1300-square feet with 3-gallon total water capacity. Uses dual super wick model 1040 for high output and long lasting.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

106 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Full-Featured Digital Humidifier, January 8, 2010

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Satis Superque "SSQ" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Essick Air 4-Speed Tower Humidifier, D46 720 (Kitchen)

Overall, this is a great humidifier.

SIZE: The tower shape of the unit makes it perfect for environments where there is more wall space to consume than floor space. It's fairly large: as a point of reference, it rises a little higher than the arms of my living room sofas and it's rectangular shape is about the size of a magazine, plus about 1.5" on each side for the two tanks.

CONTROLS: The digital controls makes it pretty easy to operate. It's a simple, two-button interface with an easy-to-read display. The automatic humidistat can be set from 25-65% (at 10% intervals). The current and desired humidity level are shown side-by-side on the display using indicator bars. When set a desired humidity level, the automatic humidistat will run the unit until the current humidity reading is 10% higher than your preference, then turn it off until the current reading drops to 10% lower than your preference. This is a pretty nice feature - it saves power and conserves water so you don't have to refill the reservoirs as frequently. You can also choose to run the unit continuously by not setting a preferred humidity level.

FAN NOISE: There are four fan speeds. The first three speeds are all very quiet and wouldn't be disruptive (or even noticeable) in most settings. The fourth and highest setting is more noticeable, sounding something like a microwave oven but slightly softer and quieter. It might be enough to make you turn up the TV a little while watching the news, but really no worse than that.

DISPLAY: The display also has a green power indicator and a red indicator to let you know when both reservoirs are empty (the unit will stop when this is the case until at least one reservoir is refilled). I did find it kind of odd that the product uses LED bars to display the humidity levels and two-digit numeric readout for the fan speed (even though the highest speed setting is only 4). It almost seems to me that these should be reversed, but that doesn't really reduce the effectiveness of the unit and the interface is still pretty easy to read and use as designed.

SETUP & USE: The unit is fairly easy to setup and maintain. The two wick units and the plastic grill covers that enclose them can be a little cumbersome when snapping them in and out of place. This is not a particularly big problem, since the wick units only need to be replaced at the beginning of each season to avoid mineral buildup.

The two reservoirs, on the other hand, are very easy to remove and replace while the unit is operating. Each is the full height of the unit and about 2 inches thick with a simple click-latch fixing them snugly to the unit's sides. Despite their large and odd shape, they're surprisingly easy to fill even at a small bathroom sink. They each can hold a little more than their rated 1.5 gallons when topped off and the fill-caps hold this amount without leaking. The instructions say that the water level in these tanks is "easily visible" from the sides. The water level can be seen from the sides, but I wouldn't describe it as "easily"; the dark tint makes it pretty difficult to see from any distance. I often have to gently rock the unit a little to find the surface of the water move before I can judge.

When this unit is running continuously at full speed, it can run through both reservoirs twice in a single day (that two times each, or 6 gallons total). Unless your environment is *extremely* dry, I think that's about the max. With more practical and conservative settings, they only need to be filled every 2-4 days, which is a much more relaxed refill schedule to keep.

The unit does work well even for larger, dryer spaces. You'll be able to notice an immediate difference in the air near the humidifier as soon as you start it, and the effect radius grows pretty quickly - especially on the highest speed setting.

SUMMARY: All in all, this is a nice multi-room humidifier that looks good, fits easily, works well and is easy to operate with a nice feature set for it's price range.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Humidifiers I have tried, February 28, 2010

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A. V. Smith - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essick Air 4-Speed Tower Humidifier, D46 720 (Kitchen)

I've tried several humidifiers and this one is the easy to use and is easy to fill.
The design makes it very easy to find a place that is out of the way. The high(4) fan speed is noisy, but the 3 speeds below that are quiet. I set the humidity to one below the max with fan speed at 3 and it goes through one tank every 4-5 hours. I also use a Protec cartridge placed in the base of the reservoir and have had no problems with mildew so far. This one is a keeper.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Satisfied!, March 10, 2010

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J. Kent (Wakefield RI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essick Air 4-Speed Tower Humidifier, D46 720 (Kitchen)

The first Humidifier I received, did not work properly. I called the "800" listed on the insert if you encountered a problem. Actually a live person answered. I explained the problem, she knew exactly what was wrong, said it was defective, send it back and we'll ship a new one.

I received a new humidifier within a week. Put it together and it works perfectly. You can set the percentage of humidity you would like and the humidifier shuts on and off to keep the humdity at the selected level. I like the fans 4 speeds. Setting number 1& 2 are very quiet, although 3 and 4 are not bad. The humidifier covers 1300 sq feet which is perfect for my entire downstairs. There are two water tanks, I fill them every other day, but the humidifier shuts off and a red light appears when it is out of water.