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Problem for Honeywell HE220A1019 Whole House Humidifier Humidifier

Lack of humidity

By garts on Dec 28, 2007

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Hi, I recently installed a Honeywell whole house humidifier. It does everything correctly but does not add enough humidity to the air even with the control turned to max. Water passes through correctly and out of the drain while the furnace is on. I thought that I attached the bypass hot air to close to a direction change in the duct work and did not have enough air flow so I moved it and now if feels like I'm getting good air pressure from the hot side and it draws air into the cold. I checked the humidifier pad and it seems OK. It is easy to see light through it. Let me know if you have any thoughts.
Thanks Gene

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Clarification Request

Posted by chowmix66 on Dec 22, 2008

The humidistat should be mounted on the return duct,higher than the humidifier (if mounted on the return), or higher than the by-pass duct. If it mounted lower it will sense the humidity right out of the unit instead of the house which will turn the humistat off due to satisified humidity level. Also The flo thru humidifiers will have water running out the drain tube. These humidifiers can go through 8 and up gallons per day.

Posted by chowmix66 on Dec 21, 2008

where is the humidistat located?

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Dec 07, 2008

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Dec 07, 2008

- I have the same problem as all above have explained with two furnaces and two humidifiers. Both serviced ares are dry - dry - dry. Professionals that have installed these units are of no help. Are there any solutions? - Guest

Mar 30, 2008

- Ditto, I have the same problem. Everything seems to be working as designed. I even feel the humid air when I open the humidifier unit, but when I go through the house, the air is still dry heat; humidity gauge doesn't go above 22%. Humidifier is installed on the supply (hot air) side and the duct work is connected to the cold air return side. I made sure the humidistat was installed at the required 6-8 inches above the duct work and humidifier. I don't get it, what's wrong????? Can someone help?- Rozcoe

Mar 04, 2008

- I also have the same problem with the same type of Honeywell humidifier. A friend of mine is in the same boat. I'm not sure what the issue is... It will raise the humidity to about 25%-28% and that's it.- JPT5000

Feb 26, 2008

- I have the same problem... Water runs through it, and all seems to be working. At the furnace I installed the humidistat in the cold air side just below the humidifier on the furnace. humidity seems to be going up at this point on the cold air side of the furnace. But when I measure the living level humidity I can't get it above 26% after installing this puppy....

I'm still perplexed??????????????/
- gainesma

Solution #1

posted on Dec 25, 2008

WeeFix

Rank: Apprentice
Rating: 100%, 1 votes

Try the following test, ( I will resume this is a flow through humidifier)

Spray water directly oin the filter make sure it is saturated. Some water should leak from the bottom. After 10 min measure the Humidity to see if this helped. If there is a higher level of humidity the pbm is that not enough water is saturating the filter. Check the level of the filter & water feed nozzle.

Option 2 is to connect the water feed tube to a Hot water source.

Hope this helps.

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