I must be crazy for giving three stars. Here is a brief history of my experience with Oskar Humidifier:
FIRST UNIT. Works fine for one month, then the "no water" light came on even when the unit is filled. (Memo: Do not order from "Wizard Electroland." Seller refuses to reimburse shipping even though the item is defective. Amazon kindly intervenes.)
SECOND UNIT. Order from Amazon. Happy to have my brand new humidifier. Fill gently with water to the exact specified point. Turn "on." Item does not turn on. IT DOES NOT TURN ON.
THIRD UNIT. Order from Amazon. Kind of happy to have my brand new humidifier. It works fine for three days. Then last night at 5 a.m. it wakes me up with a tisk, tisk, tisk, risk sound. Sound mysteriously disappears; I fall back asleep and have bad dreams about humidifiers.
I also must be crazy for ordering three of these, but here is why: It is nearly impossible to find a non-ultrasonic humidifier. The design and size are perfect for my apartment. Cleaning and refilling (the most onerous parts of humidifying) are easy. It is made by a Swiss company (used to mean something) and they have very good customer service. (I contacted them for more detailed cleaning instructions than the manual provides.)
I don't know what else to say. In theory it is the perfect humidifier, but order at your own risk.
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I can't think of any product I've been more disappointed in that I've purchased from Amazon. This humidifier is all aesthetics and zero quality. For $150 you'd expect a certain amount of build quality from a humidifier, not cheap flimsy plastic that feels like the slightest stress could break it. The design of the humidifier makes it very easy to spill water if you bump into it, there's nothing keeping the water in the reservoir other than gravity. Most disappointing, the blue LEDs are slowly dying one at a time... I'm down to 3 left, soon I'll have no idea what fan speed or humidity level I have selected. I've noticed that the slightest bump can fool this thing into thinking it's out of water, which is a bad thing if you have kids or pets in the house since it will automatically shut off when empty. You could easily pick up a humidified for 1/3 the price that will do the exact same job. I may as well have burned a $100 bill... DO NOT waste your money on this one, anything is better than this.
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We've tried a number of different humdifiers for our daughter's room. Most of them are loud, spew white dust (hard water here), are difficult to fill, and don't automatically shut off.
The Oskar, while more expensive than many others, addresses all of those concerns.
Pro's
-It's amazingly quiet
-You can fill it without taking it apart
-You can turn down the blue LEDs
-Doesn't fill the room with white dust
-Unlike another reviewer, I thought it was pretty easy to see the fill line (but that could be my room's lighting)
-Stylish!
Cons
-Spendy
-It's lightweight plastic, which isn't immediately apparent from the pictures. Not a major con, but I though it would be more substantial.
Overall, it's amazing. So much so that I bought another one today.
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So far, I like this humidifier. I have two. The other is an Air-O-Swiss U650. The OSKAR is very quiet (though the Air-O-Swiss is, too), and since it is evaporative, there is no mist and no white dust (which the Air-O-Swiss does produce). The OSKAR emits cool air, which does seem to cool the environment a tiny bit, but that's not a big deal. I did, however, read somewhere that heating may do a better job of killing bacteria. Anyway, the OSKAR does a great job of reaching the targeted humidity level. My only complaints are that its features aren't that helpful there are only a few buttons, it doesn't tell you the current humidity level (the Air-O-Swiss does), and you have to remember what one bar, two bars, three bars, etc. mean (each one corresponds to a specific target humidity level). Lastly, one thing I really don't like is that it's very difficult to see inside the unit and to tell how much to fill it with water. It says to fill it to the top of the stick, but squinting and looking inside, it's hard for me to tell when I've reached that point, and I've overfilled it, which leads to flooding. However, I do like the fact that you can fill it without having to remove a big tank and carry it to the kitchen sink (which you do have to do with the Air-O-Swiss it spills water as I am walking, so it creates a mess). You can put water in the OSKAR without even moving it. Overall, it's light on functionality but looks nice and does a good job.
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It is great product. No leaking, very quite and pretty design.
I like it very much, so I am ordering 2 more for each of my children rooms.
