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Pros

It wicks the water very good but it is necessary to rotate your filter with each refill of water by turning it upside down. The only down side is that the city water is from wells, and is very hard. This clogs up the filter rapidly. The outer fiber en...  Read More

The filter is thick and it does the job. Outweighs the filter with the blue protec applied to it.

The honeywell replacement wicking filter e is excellent. The filters perform well. Works great & price is good.



Cons

The blue lining dries immediately and started to detach. It also puts off a very strong “plasticy’ smell that’s quite unpleasant. The smell only slowly dissipates over weeks.

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Quality


So far, i'm really happy with the new version with the blue wrapping around the outside.


These filters with the blue outside hold their form better than the newer ones without it.


Based on my positive experience with the honeywell filters prior to the redesign with the blue shell, i can only conclude that ...  Read More


It may also be due to the quality of the water where i live.

Price


The price was better than in stores and the additional plus was.


The price has really increased but still worth the money.


One other brand lasted as long, but cost 70% more.

Packaging/appearance


We've had our honeywell humidifier (model hev685) for about 3 years now, so i've had enough time to check out different filters...  Read More


We use our well water in our humidifiers, which goes through a salt-based conditioning system to reduce its hardness, iron, and...  Read More


This will keep the whole filter completely saturated.

Competitiveness


No joke… and i don’t have to put the extra protec balls or fish in the tank!


However, i only have to do this about 2 times in a 3-month period, so i believe the filtering benefit of the blue layer outweig...  Read More


Haven't had to flip the filter once, but had to flip competitors frequently because they dried out on the top half.

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    last, blue, good, better and tried.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 166.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,976 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 31 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    At first i thought i had ordered the wrong filter as it had a blue outer lining that was not on the previous version


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The old version daily dried out on top and lasted less than a month before becoming hard and crusty a problem as these filters are a bit expensive


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    One other brand lasted as long but cost 70 more


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I wasnt overly happy with the previous version as it tended to rip apart at the seam after about 3 weeks one time even after two


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    They also got pretty disgusting and clogged up after about 3


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    So far this one has lasted six weeks already


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Also it has discolored or become clogged up with 34gunk34 yet either

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