White Teardrop Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier, 1 Gallon Auto Shut-Off for Large Room, Baby Nursery, Bedroom Office, Clear & White

This is the second one of these I bought. Needed one for another room and had no reason to try another. Works well, easy to use, easy to disinfect, and it's appropriate for the size of the rooms I needed them for. The only caveat I would suggest is that if you're running this on the night table next to your bed, don't keep your phone on the night table next to it, because you're liable to end up with a gritty film on the screen.

This humidifier works great for dry air. It runs quietly, puts out a steady mist, and helps with dry skin and stuffy nose. The tank lasts through the night, and it shuts off automatically when empty. It’s easy to refill and clean. Overall, a good value for the price and perfect for bedrooms or small rooms.

I purchased the Crane cool mist humidifier in Dec'10 and have used it, with great success, for many months. With all the negative reviews (about 20%) I almost didn't purchase this machine. But I'm glad I did, because it works really well for what it is: a mid size/capacity humidifier. First of all: ***this humidifier has a 2.3 gallon per day maximum output, with a .9 gallon tank.*** Amazon's initial title for this (and many other humidifiers) mentions daily output capacity rather than tank size... this may be confusing, although the correct specs are prominently listed on the Amazon page - fifth bullet point in the "product features" section. As for Crane (the manufacturer), their package clearly states a 2.3 gallon daily output, and .9 gallon tank size... The reviewers complaining about the "misleading name" should try emailing Amazon suggesting a title change on their website... instead of writing a 1 or 2 star review of the product. That would be more helpful and more fair. As for the product itself: A few buyers obviously received defective machines; this has to be expected on some level with any manufacturer. But having read over the negative reviews, I realized that most of the complaints were due to improper use of the machine. It is essential to read the instruction manual and use the machine as intended by design. Doing so will avoid the pitfalls described by most of these 1-2 star review writers. For reference, I have addressed their most common complaints below: 1) White dust buildup in the room: use filtered or distilled water. This is important if you have hard tap water. (85% of American homes do.) I run my tap water through a Brita filter; the exchange ion resin lowers the concentration of calcium carbonates, accordingly softening tap water. It also helps keep the humidifier cleaner by removing organic impurities, and I have had no white dust buildup. ***If your water is particularly high in mineral content, you should use distilled water, or else opt for a vaporizer-type (humidifying) machine, which creates water vapor free of white dust.*** 2) Limited effectiveness: you are trying to humidify too large a room. In my 500 square foot living room level the machine helps a little; in my 150 square foot bedroom the machine is more than adequate. 3) Height of machine: the manual directs you to put the humidifier *at least* a few feet off the ground; there's no reason you can't place it even higher up if you wish. Doing so will disperse the mist more effectively. 4) Machine runs out of water: try turning it down to about 2/3 power instead of full power. The machine is practically noiseless at this setting and the water tank if actually filled to the rim will last at least 8-10 hours. 5) Machine makes bubbling noise on high: see #4 above. 6) Wet area forms immediately around humidifier: you have the machine turned up too high for the conditions in your room. This is explained in the instruction manual: you need to make sure the mist isn't falling down onto the surfaces around the machine; otherwise moisture will accumulate on those surfaces. Turn the power dial down until the vapor stream is fully evaporating in the air. 7) Machine leaks: Take care that the water tank fits snugly into place, with no gaps. Also, make sure you have the clear rubber ring that fits inside the tank cap. During my initial setup, this little (1 1/2" diameter) ring came loose and rolled away, and I almost didn't notice. The ring ensures a tight seal on your water tank cap; without it, I'm pretty sure the machine would leak. 8) Machine gets moldy: you are not following the correct cleaning routine, as described in the manual. You need to empty and rinse out the tank daily, and empty the bottom part of the unit too. Once a week you should use a white vinegar/warm water mixture in the tank and bottom of unit (see manual). I hope this was helpful. If my humidifier breaks down I will certainly update this review.

I knocked this down to a 4 only because you can’t clean the inside (you can disinfect to it with vinegar + water and swish around) with a brush. Otherwise, I really love this product. It held up to three fall/winter seasons being run almost 24hrs a day. This will be the second one I have bought. I think it is worth the money. The water capacity will last a full two-three days if you run it on the lowest setting- maybe a day and a half at its highest. Easy to use, but you have to fiddle with the dial and figure out where exactly works for you. No fancy buttons or automatic setting, but it works well and I like how you can spin the top piece to direct the mist.

My wife and I purchased this because the air at home is very dry which really aggravates my sinuses leading to sometimes intense pressure and congestion. I wanted one that did not require replacement filters or high maintenance. This product stood out to us because of it's cool tear drop design and high number of positive reviews. I have to say, it's been great. Using it nightly and during the day in my office, I've slept better, haven't woken up congested and next to no sinus pressure issues outside of significant weather changes. I love that it's super quiet, has a gentle glowing LED light to let you know it's on and has water in it's tank. Speaking of which, I think it's also great that it turns red and shuts off the function when the water runs out. Noise level is really quiet. I hear a gentle whirring which is actually relaxing to me. I barely hear it. The only other sounds that I hear is when water is being directed into the base to keep the supply flowing but it's not so loud that it's disturbing at all. Please be advised that if you hear a dripping sound, your tank may not be 100% secured onto the base the way that it needs to be. It's super easy to fill up and to clean. Simply taking the mist spout off, lifting the tank up to empty and clean and emptying out the base to let it dry takes all of 2 minutes. I rinse mine and dry with a paper towel or other dry cloth just to keep any film or mold from developing. One small thing I need to mention is regarding the red rubber O-Ring under the tanks screw cap. Mine came fully inserted from the factory but somehow came loose and despite inserting it correctly with the ridged side facing up, it would not allow me to reinstall it into the underside of the cap. It's as if the diameter of the ring was too large. After several days of trying to squeeze it in and thinking I had it only to have the other side pop out, I decided to cut a small section of the ring off. Now the ring stays inside of the cap without coming out and all is good. I do not necessarily recommend anyone else do this and to be honest, I was able to use the unit without any issues from not having the rubber ring installed at all. It's there for a reason so my recommendation is if yours comes out and won't go back in, just order a replacement tank cap with the ring pre-installed. This was just my solution to what I was dealing with at the time. All in all, I'd like to say Great Job to Crane and I would recommend this product to my friends and family that could benefit from having a small profile humidifier for their needs.

PLEASE READ THE VERY BOTTOM FOR THE LATEST UPDATE: A lot of the lower star reviews say that this thing only last a few months, but I sincerely hope that's not the case with all of them. My advice if you haven't already, is to read the 1 star reviews and decide if those issues are enough to matter to you. AFTER 1.5 WEEKS OF constant RUNNING: Pros: It really puts out a heavy stream of vapor that is visible. I love that. It was VERY easy to fill and assemble It makes no sound at all, except for the occasional bubble of water when the valve refills Runs for about 10 hours before needing to be refilled, but shuts off if it runs out of water Does NOT leave a big wet mess on the floor beneath or on the furniture Cool looking Cons: MAJOR CON: Made with VERY cheap and thin plastic ( I am very careful and gentle with my things, especially after reading reviews about how this machine cracks very easily. IT DOES! I put it down in the sink very carefully, with two hands still on it for weight support to fill it, and then I noticed while putting it back on the base that it was cracked around the top. I cannot believe it! I was so careful. I also just noticed that it's now cracked on the inside of the vapor valve. No water is leaking yet, but I just cannot believe how easily it cracks. No bumps or pressure, just cracked from the weight of the water I suppose. Unbelievable! DO nOT sit this thing down, or it will crack. There's a little light glowing in the tank, You can't turn it off, this may aggravate some during the night, but it's very dim in my opinion There's a handle on the tank, but it says not to use it when the tank is filled with water. I'm not sure why you would need it otherwise. Cord is a little shorter than I prefer, you'll need to sit it close to the plug. Water drips everywhere when you take it apart to refill it. It drips off of the top and the bottom, so no matter how you carry it to the sink, you're going to have a trail of drips. My advice is to take the entire thing to the sink before you pull the tank off to refill. (pretty aggravating) These are all preliminary cons, as I've just started using it and the excitement has not worn off yet. Will update. UPDATE: OKAY! SO NOW THE REAL STORY... MINE STOPPED WORKING ALSO! I THOUGHT THAT I HAD GOTTEN AWAY WITH A PRODUCT THAT I COULD MAKE WORK FOR A WHILE, BUT NO, IT STOPPED PUTTING OUT VAPOR THE OTHER DAY after only a couple of weeks. IT ALSO LEAKED OUT ALL OVER THE PIECE OF FURNITURE IT WAS ON, CAUSING IT TO BUBBLE UP. IT SOAKED A DIAPER BAG FULL OF BRAND NEW "NON-CHLORINE" HONEST COMPANY DIAPERS (THAT ARE VERY EXPENSIVE AND HAVE TO BE ORDERED ONLINE). I was furious, and contacted Amazon. They responded quickly and said they would credit back the cost of the humidifier to my card within a couple of days. That hasn't happened yet, but I sincerely appreciate Amazon's attempt to remedy the problem. They even said I could keep it or throw it away, not to worry about the hassle of returning, which I thought was impressive. I was about to throw it away, when I decided to mess with it some. I took it apart, fiddled with the valve and let it dry out for couple of days. I put it back together, and voila, it's working again. I don't know if one of the electronic parts got wet or what, but drying it out seemed to do the trick. The stream of vapor isn't as thick as it was, but at least it's working. I would love to have it for free, but my conscience wouldn't let me, so I emailed amazon and told them that it was working again. Hopefully it won't do this again, but I'm telling you right now, it's not worth the hassle of broken parts, messed up furniture and other stuff from leaks or having to send it back. Don't be mesmerized by it's cool looking body, go with a different humidifier. It's neat and works beautifully at first, but it is made so cheap, it's just a temporary humidifier. 2ND UPDATE: It quit working again. I'm throwing this piece of junk in the trash.

I've been using the Crane 24 hours a day for two months now (since December). It works great and my hygrometer shows how it definitely increases the humidity in the room. While the humidifier definitely helps prevent a dry mouth and throat in the morning, my main reason for buying it is because I have an expensive acoustic guitar that is very sensitive to low humidity, even when I use a wet sponge hydrator inside the guitar body. Late last winter the two wood halves of my guitar's soundboard started to separate because of the dryness in my room. I had to pay $100 to the repair shop to have my guitar reinforced. The repair guy said that this kind of separation in a guitar's soundboard tends to happen in the winter when the heat in the house has been on for a while and has been drying everything out. After the guitar was repaired I began using a wet sponge hydrator inside the guitar body to help humidify it some, and with the heat being on less in the late winter, I saw no further signs of wood separation so I thought all was well. However, early this winter, even with the sponge hydrator I again saw a slight separation happening with the guitar's wood halves, so I immediately bought the Crane humidifier because I know that when the humidity level in the room is up above 40% or so, the guitar shows no sign of wood separation. When the humidity level is down in the 30's or lower, I start to see a crack between the guitar's two soundboard halves below the sound hole. Without the humidifier, my room goes down to 25% or lower in the winter, so it's very important to have the humidifier. The guitar manufacturer recommends keeping the room humidity between 45% and 55%. With the Crane, I keep my room at a minimum of 45% all the time. The guitar functions beautifully, the way I want it to for a very long time. Like others, I don't understand some of the negative reviews this Crane humidifier has gotten, unless some of those people had defective units or something. One thing to watch: I have found that when you return the filled water tank to the base unit, you have to place the filled tank 100% snugly and firmly on the base or water will not flow from the water tank into the base unit. After you put the filled water tank on the base unit and turn the humidifier on, if the water tank is not 100% perfectly situated on the base you may still see mist coming from the humidifier, but the only water that's producing the mist is the little amount that still remains in the base's holding area, which will last for only a short while. If you were to leave the house immediately after improperly putting the water tank on the base unit, even though you see mist coming from the humidifier while leaving, you will return home later to find a full tank of water with no mist coming out, and a room with decreased humidity level. So make sure you carefully check that the filled water tank is sitting 100% perfectly snug on the base unit. Other reviewers have mentioned the white dust that can accumulate on furniture over time, which they said could be remedied by using filtered water instead of tap water. Because they mentioned this, initially I used filtered tap water from the filtration unit on my sink. But I found even with filtered water my TV screen still collected some white dust over time that I would have to wipe off periodically. This was no big deal. Because my sink's water filter unit slows down the water flow out of the faucet significantly, which makes filling the humidifier's water tank time-consuming, a few weeks ago I tried using regular tap water which flows much faster out of the faucet into the humidifier's tank. For my room, I found that the tap water caused no noticeable increase in white dust over the filtered water. There is some white dust accumulation, but not any annoying amount. Mainly, I have to wipe the dust off my TV screen periodically and that's no big deal. Now that I use tap water to fill the tank, it only takes a few seconds to fill up, whereas with filtered water it took a minute or more. Since it is cone shaped, you have to hold the humidifier's tank the entire time you are filling it because it will not sit flat in the sink, so the less you have to stand there and wait the better. The other benefit in using tap water is that I don't use up my sink's water filter as quickly as I did the first month and a half I had the humidifier when I was using about two gallons a day from it. (Each filter lasts for 100-gallons.) The only consideration I have about this Crane humidifier is that cleaning the entire unit thoroughly takes some time. I clean it once a week as recommended. For the base unit and the top, bottom, and flow chamber of the water tank I use wet paper towels dipped in a small pot of water with one teaspoon of bleach mixed in. For the inside of the water tank, I fill it halfway with bleach water and cap it up and shake it vigorously. I have found that a teaspoon of bleach seems to prevent pink mold build-up on my humidifier's base unit better than a teaspoon of white vinegar did. A small amount of pink buildup by the end of the week occurs, and that's why cleaning the unit weekly is very important. If using bleach, just be careful to fully wash your hands afterward because bleach can irritate or even burn your skin if left unwashed. I have noticed something interesting: Tap water seems to last a few hours longer than filtered water in the humidifier. I bought the Crane 2.3 gallon cool mist humidifier based on its price and the many positive Amazon reviews it had. I agree that it is really only approximately a one-gallon tank, so the 2.3 number is misleading. Why they have to do this, I cannot fathom. I guess they're insecure unless they shoot big numbers at you. That aside, this unit has worked great these last two months, and now I know that my expensive guitar is not in any danger due to humidity level issues in the house. For the price it's a great unit.

I really like this thing! I wanted to get a humidifier for my room because i noticed that when i wake up in the morning, my throat and nasal passage often feels insanely dry. Also a lot of times i have sip water while i'm trying to get to sleep, because my nasal passage felt so dry that I couldn't swallow. I like this particular humidifier in that the mist is instant and it's cool - it's also such a fine mist that you can put your hand 4-5 inches away directly in line of the output, and your hand won't get all drippy with condensation. This means it's such a fine mist that you don't really have to worry about everything around it becoming wet and drippy if you run it for a long time. This is particularly great if you're resting this on wood based surface, or it's placed in such a way that it's got other things around it. I put it on my night stand next to my lamp and i put my phone and my handheld game system right next to this/near where the mist falls down/settles without any fear of my phone, game system, or even my lamp shade getting wet. I also like that this has such a large container, so i can fill it and let it run for quite a while. On a completely full container, I believe I can run it for over 12 hours on highest setting. On 3rd of a tank (bottom third), it can go all night until morning when i get up and turn it off. It also has auto shutdown/stop setting so when it gets too low in the water, it automatically stops so I don't have to worry about burning or whatever that happens when it gets low on water if I have it running overnight. There is a light inside the tank that tells you its water level (i mean you can see through the water tank but the light also tells you stuff too. Green means it's got plenty of water. When it flashes green and red it means it can still run but it's starting to become low. Red is when it auto shuts off. The light isn't very bright/blinding either, so running this at night when you're trying to sleep won't be an issue. My nightstand is higher than my bed, so even though I have so close by, I don't really notice the light (it helps that the color of the tank is blue so it mutes the green light a lot. This thing also runs very quiet - but you WILL hear some random burbling of water drops. If you have this in a super silent room, you're going to hear it burble. However in my case I have an air purifier that I have running on low 24/7, as well as a fan that I run whenever I'm in the room (so overnight as well) because it's hot during the summer. With those two, there's enough white noise that I don't really register the water burbling. I do still hear it some because it's on my nightstand therefore really close by, but it doesn't cause me to unable to sleep. The water holding thing uses the same kinda mechanism as your toilet water tank - it's basically a stopper that when you put it onto the stand, it raises the stopper to let water through. But instead of pulling at the stopper from the top (like your toilet water tank), the base of the humidifier has one part that sticks up, which forces the stopper to be raised when you have the tank properly placed on it. So far I haven't noticed any leaking problems with mine. If you do have a leaking problem, you should check that there's no leaks in the base itself, and make sure that you're fitting the tank onto the base properly. If it's misaligned, it would easily leak.