Clogged Carbon Filter from Humidifier

Goes to show, you get what you pay for most of the time. The Air-O-Swiss cost 2x as much and years of running I’ve never seen white dust. This one built it up in less than a week. Going to try these, they pull in the minerals supposedly. But for now, I’m leaving the filter off, no need for it yet.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q1NRGUW/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

LOL, you’d have to bath with it. Bubble bath fun! Like being little with a rubber ducky.

I will be replacing mine in the new year since it’s overkill and requires lots of space but will likely recycle the carbon in it I’ve read a few articles on how to recycle it but needed a back up first and most methods involve baking the charcoal in it messy and time consuming

Doesn’t it need to be crazy high temps?

oven on auto clean since most of what clogs them is organic matter but honestly shit is just easier to buy new filter they are so much cheaper than when they first came out

agreed. I’ve never used my self-cleaning mode in my oven. I’m afraid lol

Update:

I put the filter back on, after flushing water thru it in the tub and drying for a week, and it seems to be working fine again. I won’t use it until flower when I can remove the humidifier. The room will maintain ~40% without it.

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I have the reversible filter. It needs maintaince (that’s the only thing I didn’t do yesterday) and also the pre-filter needs to be washed or changed

does anyone know how well the reversible ones work once you flip them ?

will I be able to get another, let’s say 10 months from it?

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has anyone ever actually reversed one, I guess is what I’m asking ?

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I’m also curious if the carbon wants to spill out when you pull the caps off or is it still somehow contained.