Humidifier dusting sealed room

[Green-ninja]

I'm running a sealed room and my humidifier is dusting everything in the room. my waters 100 ppm should the ppm be lower? anyone else have this problem with a humidifier?

 

[avant gardener]

i don't think i understand.
it's dusting your room with what exactly?
anyway it's either something in your room or something in the unit.
find out which it is, clean it out, carry on.
sorry to sound so pedantic but what else could it be?

 

[Green-ninja]

I'm sure what the dust is. The humidifier is new and clean. Could the dust be from the water?

 

[Green-ninja]

im not sure i mean

 

[InstantKarma]

The dust is calcium from the water, 100ppm is too high. Use an R.O. filter or get water from the refill machines in front of grocery stores.

 

[avant gardener]

ohhhhhh... you said humidifier.
here i was thinking it was a DEhumidifier.
i stand corrected.
DOH!

yep. easy fix. clean water.

 

[HushemFlupskluk]

That calcuim does not affect the plants. It does the equipment. My hood f/e lost reflectiveness.

 

[fungzyme]

Yeah, definitely use RO water as close to 0ppm as possible - that calcium will leave a film on everything, especially the glass covering your bulb (or your cooltube, etc). Not good.

 

[Green-ninja]

I set up the ro filter today. Thanks for the help.

 

[knowisking]

I'm going to revive this thread in hopes to finding a solution to my same issue. I'm currently running RO water and still have this white film on everything. Anyone else?