Air Bear AIR-BEAR-265000-001 Trion Duct Mounted Atomizing 24V Humidifier Mister-MINI 265000-001

**See 2nd home install update at very bottom (December 2016)**I absolutely love this thing! I have a VERY tight furnace closet in our home - a 1150SF two story, 3 bedroom attached living townhome. I could not fit in a traditional whole home humidifier. Really happy that I came across the Trion Mister Mini!I installed one back in January 2013. Installation took about an hour with the help of my brother, who is pretty handy with wiring - so having him around was necessary for me. I couldn't have done it on my own.Because of the Trion Mister Mini, humidity in our home is consistent throughout the dry Chicago winters. During the driest, coldest time of the year, we still have around 30% humidity in our home, which is plenty for how cold it gets outside (indoor humidity needs to be relative to outdoor temperature). I do have to manually adjust the humidity level to a lower level during these times because it is not an automatic humidifier, which reads the humidity and temperature from outside. No worries. I just keep it at 50% during the winter, and then pop it down to 25 or 30% when the outside temperature gets below 10 or 15 degrees F.***Seasonal Maintenance is NECESSARY with these units!**** Trion does not stress this enough in the manual. They do tell you to check the nozzle and clean it each year, but I must stress how important this is! I did not check it after the first winter, and let it run into the 2nd winter (2014). I just turned off the water during the summer.Long and short, at the end of the 2014 season I started seeing white scale buildup all over the edges of my furnace. Water was scaling up. I thought this was a filter issue and just let it be since it was the end of the season.Winter 2015 and I check the nozzle. Turns out it is totally clogged. I rip it apart, and clean the heck out of it, and it streams water into the duct - the nozzle failed and that is what caused all the scale buildup - it stopped misting.Long and short - do 2 things when you install this to prevent scale buildup and nozzle failure:a) install a scale filter into the water line that feeds the Trion (such as a Nu-Calgon Humiditreat - http://www.amazon.com/Humiditreat-Reducing-Inline-Filter-Humidifiers/dp/B005Z4S10C/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1450036219&sr=8-5&keywords=scale+filter - or: http://www.amazon.com/Omnipure-SCL10-B-Scale-Inline-Filter/dp/B00BA9DF4I/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1450036219&sr=8-4&keywords=scale+filter)b) CHANGE YOUR NOZZLE EACH YEAR. Don't try to clean it yourself - they will eventually build up too much deposit and stop working correctly, which could result in a solid spray of water into your furnace rather than a nice, fine mist. Replacement Trion nozzles are about $25, or you can find Thermomist nozzles (part number 46017401) for about $15. Just change it just before each winter. It's not worth the trouble of a clogged/failed nozzle. Failed nozzles will stop misting the water and will create a solid stream, which will cause nasty buildup and flooding in your furnace. So yeah, $15/year is worth the security.That's about it! Learn from my mistake and you'll be good to go! $35/year for new scale reducing filter and nozzle and you'll be good to go with this system!***December 2016 update***We bought a new home - 2200SF home with a much larger furnace, and much larger home.Winter came around and we felt the dryness of air, so I purchased another Trion Mister Mini.Our condenser box is WAY bigger on this new furnace, and we quickly discovered that we installed the Trion in the wrong spot. Why? The heat exchanger blows hot air into the back of the condenser unit (heat exchange is below the condenser in my furnace), so all the hot air comes up on one side of the box that the Trion is in. Some cool air comes up on the other side of the box from the blower fan. None of thr hot air was blowing onto the Trion.I moved the Trion to another side of the box, and it worked, but still wasn't getting enough hot air directly on it. Because of where the furnace exhaust was located, I physically could not put the Trion any closer to the hot air stream.So - I had to make a mod (see photographs attached to see what I'm talking about. One photo shows you where I moved the Trion to, and the other photograph shows the internal furnace mod I made to direct hot air)I added some sheet metal on the inside of the condenser area to direct the hot air from the source right onto the Trion.Now it turns on and stays on and works great.One thing - our new home is so efficient, that the furnace isn't on too often. Because of this, not enough water is pumped into the air because the Trion only runs after the furnace is on and heated up after 5 or 6 minutes. I upgraded to a 1GPH solid cone nozzle to put more water into the air (the included nozzle is .75GPH). Hope this does the trick!

The Air Bear 265000-001 mini mister works good wish I had installed a transformer on the blower relay because I think it sometimes is on without the blower heater on . I have some dripping on the bottom of the duct when it's on a lot. But it works I have a much more comfortable house and it was easyer to install than most humidifiers

We live in a 1920 bungalow which has been heavily updated but has since me challenges. Our previous home was the typical 3 bed, 2.5 bath with the usual rotating evaporative junk pile that many owners fight often.We wanted something no that would marry up nicely with our new high efficiency furnace and not have a trough of standard nag water waiting to grow al manner of "stink". So we bought this unit. The install was as simple as one can hope for. I fired up our system an..............nothing from the Mini. Nothing!.Phase two, test the temp sensor on the unit. System running, unit out to of the plenum, hair dryer blowing.........unit works! The cat ran. I'm ok with that.What I learned: The unit works fine provided it gets 120f temp air to it fast. It works fine if it gets 120f air to it sooner or later. The manual is serious. Ug.My fix: I cut a strip of galvanized sheet 3"x12" and attached it to the unit housing and bent it to direct heated air to the temp sensor.Results: Our system turns on, heats, blows, unit activates at or about 7 minutes into a typical 30 minute heating cycle. Unit shuts off quickly at the beginning of the cool down cycle. I like that.We will run this until spring and see how it went.To the manufacturer. We are in Colorado. This is largely an arid state. We use our furnace fan to filter and more everyday air through the warmer months to move air to balance the house. We also use that feature to move aire independent of heating to again balance the house.What do you think of a more tight mister head that could work with cool (70-80f) air found in our homes during the warmer months so we can raise humidity for greater comfort?

This is a good product however they never mention that it's not good for a high efficiency furnace. With a $10 modification you can make it work by installing a time delay. Otherwise it will have excessive water in your box.They wont tell you how to or give you any information on how to get the other nozzle sizes. They just say go to a supply house. None of mine in the area had any idea what they were talking about. They give no part number or manufacturer so acquiring one is near impossible.Apart from that its a good product if that is your last resort and in a pinch like i am. I have no room for a normal humidifier.It is extremely quiet and maintains the humidity in the house. Over all it is a worthy product.The pictures I upload have a light I installed to know when it is running and the delay timer I installed.

The first unit I installed only worked a few days and the company was great at helping trouble shoot. I went thru all the steps and they said it was a faulty unit so they sent a replacement. I switched out the replacement and it worked well for about 1-2 weeks, humidity was irregular so hard to tell if it was better due to the snow we received or the unit. I have the unit turned all the was up and the last several days have been 28% humidity. Last night I boiled 2 pots of water into the air and we are sitting where I would like to at 44% humidity. I have given up hope that this will work for our household. I even installed the filter/purifier before it to prevent mineral build up. I was hoping this would work as our system does not have enough room for the conventional type humidifier.