TOO_Pellet Stove Humidifier

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Controlling the humidity level at home is really important. It can prevent bacterial ang viral growth and a number of respiratory issues. The range between 30 and 60% relative humidity (at normal room temperatures) provides the best conditions for human occupancy (Sterling et al. 1985) [https://www.ashrae.org/file%20library/technical%20resources/covid-19/si_s16_ch22humidifiers.pdf] That said I have a pretty severe humidity issue at home. It's super dry. For years I solved my problems heating up a big pot of water on the stove and then placing it in my bedroom, but this wasn't optimal. To solve my issue in a nicer way I came up with this idea of using the really hot exaust pipe from my pellet stove to humidify the house and it seems to work nicely. Obviously I couln't go for an easy design so I spent something like 30 hours over engineering it just for the fun of it. The water cavity is split in two paths, one only serves the scope of storing water, the other part (the one closest to the exaust pipe) is where the evaporation takes place. These two zones are separated by a 6mm insulating wall that is ment to be printed with a low infil to provide the best insulation. I hope you find it useful and interesting! I'm thinking of making a range of these humidifiers, a simple one, an aestetic one and of course the overengineered one (TOO) I'm publishing now. Let me know what you think about this idea.