Am I an idiot or will this make distilled water? It's a humidifier with a tube capturing the evaporated water.

Am I an idiot or will this make distilled water? It's a humidifier with a tube capturing the evaporated water.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That's the basics of distillation. You should have the collection vessel in another larger container with cool water in to keep the collection end cool, to promot condensation, but that'll do it. Don't know how efficient it is, or why you need to do this, when distilled water is cheap and easy to find.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Well I use a lot of distilled water for my carnivorous plants and I hate to keep buying all those plastic water gallons.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why do they need it? I bought a venus fly trap the other day

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          yea they cannot drink water with minerals in it.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          They grow in environments so nutrient poor that their roots are hyper sensitive to almost anything dissolved in water. Tap water will kill them over time.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If you're going to keep carnivorous plants long term, just get a RO system. Carnivorous plants love that shit.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    youre going to blow up your house

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just grab the water that comes from the AC.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      how do i take it from the ac?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ask nicely

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Typically theres a pan under the filter with a pipe drain leading outside. Just open and put a bucket there.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It should work. Another option would be to boil water (can also do this while cooking pasta, potatoes, ect.) and then collect that water on the cover of the piy with a sponge or a cloth. Or drill through the pot cover and install a copper spiral to cool the water vapor like a moonshine stil. Pic related

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ...please tell us you didn't already plug that in

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    just don't drink it

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Your air conditioner also makes the forbidden juice, fortified with heavy metals
    I wouldn't drink it.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It won't
    Ultrasonic humidifiers are not evaporating the water.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You can add water moisture to air without evaporation, room temp IQ.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >You can add water moisture to air without evaporation, room temp IQ.
        >water moisture

        OP's pic is an ultrasonic humidifier. Collecting/condensing the output from that unit will not give you distilled water; it will give you essentially the same mix that was in there to start.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          anyone itt heard of legionnaires disease? i wouldn't trust any room-temperature evaporation and condensation of water for that reason.

          >ultrasonic
          lol nevermind

          https://i.imgur.com/EH9q9v9.jpg

          It boils it real good though.

          do those have a compressor to pull the heat back out of the condensing water?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    damn I should've done this instead of buying an $800 water distiller.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >$800 to boil some water
      wat

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It boils it real good though.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If you use a lot of distilled water (say, for your drinking water) then it's absolutely worth it to invest in a quality stainless steel distiller like

        https://i.imgur.com/EH9q9v9.jpg

        It boils it real good though.

        rather than buying some plastic shit that will break after a few months.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It seems to be working. I added some ice underneath it. Pretty slow process so far.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Make sure your humidifier is a heating type. That looks like an ultrasonic type which will just blow water into the air minerals and all. Why nit capture the drain off your ac or use a dehumidifier?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yea it looks like youre right. it is an ultrasonic humidifier. i guess this doesnt work then.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No you dumb frick, that thing produces mist not steam
    Distilling won't happen unless you fully evaporate the water into steam, and then recondense the steam

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    anon, that's how you make mustard gas!

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you can make it from some copper pipes and kettle but it's all about efficiency
    i am looking for solid fuel water distiller and

    looks intresting
    anyone else has some easy to make ideas that use solid fuel ?
    i want solid fuel so in case of chimpout i can just chop trees of my neighbour and use them to distill water

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You can get close to distilled water with some reverse osmosis filters. At least in my experience total dissolved solids in the output water is extremely low. Fluoride is also filtered out. I use an AquaPure countertop RO unit for drinking water, for humidification using an ultrasonic humidifier and for a CPAP humidifier.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No. That humidifier doesn't boil the water, there is no temperature separation, it is an ultrasonic evaporator using soundwaves, it is a physical separation. You will just put the same tapwater into the jar you put into the humidifier.
    Also you should be using distilled water in that humidifier to begin with to keep it nice an clean.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No it won't.
    The water needs to pass from liquid to gas to be distilled.
    Humidifiers use ultrasonic to break water into thousands of little droplets, but they are still in liquid form and contain all substances that the water contained in the first place.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      caveat, *some* humidifiers use ultrasonics, and while they're getting more common, they're far from the only method out there. they spit salts and microbes into the air so they're not exactly ideal for air quality unless you're buying distilled water for them.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if it's an ultrasonic humidifier, it's vapourising the water but not distilling out other molecules.
    The point of distilling is to separate based on evaporation temperature differences, which you won't do with ultrasound.

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