Honeywell Easy-To-Care Cool Moisture Humidifier

I've had the HCM-710 for four months and it works very well to humidify a medium size bedroom (approx. 12x15 ft). I love how easy it is to fill with water! The HCM-710 "Top-Fill" design is so much easier and convenient to fill than the "removable-tank style" designs that nearly every other humidifier manufacturer pushes to market.

In addition, the "removable tank" styles of other humidifiers will often produce a loud gurgle every so often as the water is consumed, and this disturbs light sleepers like myself (think of how an office water-cooler gurgles when you fill your cup). The HCM-710 sounds like a fan, a constant white noise, and the open tank design will never produce a gurgle.

The HCM-710 makes no white dust, since it is an evaporative style humidifier. Ultrasonic style humidifiers create white dust when using tap-water - even if the product info says they do not. Unless one uses distilled water, dust will be generated because there's no easy way to remove the minerals without proper filtration. The white dust gets all over everthing, especially TV screens, and is hard to remove - not to mention probably bad for some allergy sufferers. 

Mild Complaint: The HCM-710 has a BRIGHT Blue LED, which helps indicate the water level, but is intrusive to sleeping - a few layers of black electrical tape over the LED dimmed it down to tolerable levels - but now one cannot easily see the water level. I wish the LED would automatically turn off after running for a few minutes - one could see the water level, read a few pages of a book by the LED light ;), and then go to sleep once the LED shuts off.

Overall: I love the HCM-710 and would buy it again. It costs less than most other products. It's easy to use and fill. It doesn't make dust. It doesn't gurgle. I wish the LED turned off, but some people may like it as a night-light. There are no fancy controls and I like this - add water, turn it on, and let it work. Thanks for a great product! 

So far the unit seems to be working very well.  Of special value to the owner, an 87 year old lady, is the top-fill feature.

So far I really like this product.  It is very quiet.