This is easy to use and very sturdy. We are making 2 gallons of distilled water every day for our humidifier. It only takes a few minutes per batch. So much cheaper and more convenient than buying distilled water!

This is the first distiller I have ever used or owned. After reading other reviews I decided to get this unit. But took the advice I had seen in other reviews. DON’T let the distillation process go until all the water is used up. Makes keeping the unit clean much easier to stop and dump the water out at around 3 hours and 20 minutes of distillation. I use about half a cup of white vinegar and fill the reservoir all the way up with hot water - leave the lid off and let the unit heat/boil for about 30 - 40 minutes then dump and wipe to clean hard water scale deposits. I also just wipe clean after each use. So far very happy with the performance - especially for saving nearly $1.50 per gallon of water that I would have to pay at grocery store for distilled water during winter when supplies tend to run short because most people are buying for their home humidifiers.

This distiller works fine for us, and I like it. "True" output is about a quart an hour, once you factor in cleaning time. I get about 2.5-3 gallons if I run it in the kitchen all day.The first couple of batches smelled horrible. The distiller's auto-shutoff doesn't kick in until it boils dry, which vents sulfur compounds into the distilled water. If you add citric acid to descale and let THAT boil dry, the whole house reeks of smoke. DON'T BOIL DRY. It takes about 3.5-4 hours to boil out, so I set a timer and shut it off after 3 hours. It's been working great for us ever since. I bought a 15-amp timer that can cut the power at the 3 hour mark even if I get distracted.I find the water still has a slight smell, so I leave the distilled water uncapped for a few hours to gas off, and then it's fine.It works great for us. Is it perfect? No. Does it crank out as much as they claim? Not sustainably. DOES IT DISTILL WATER ACCEPTABLY? YES.

I've been using our distiller every day for at least a year. Sometimes more than once a day. The distiller automatically turns off when it's done which is good, if I forget to stop it before it's done. However, I try to always stop it while it still has water in it so that the minerals don't scale and stick on the bottom. When it's vool, I just swirl the remaining water in it and dump it out. I change the charcoal filter once a month. We use the water for everything, drinking, coffee, tea, cooking, our dog, our plants - everything. The water tastes great. We never buy water anymore. Our water source is well water and we use Morton Rust Salt in our water softener. The distiller has a nice hum when it runs that is not annoying at all. The machine size, which produces a gallon of water in 3-4 hours, is easy to handle. We metered it to see how much elecrtric cost to run per gallon and it was way less than buying water. For us, the distiller is just the best thing.There is just one thing about it that's no big deal really, but the blue water bottle the distiller fills does not pour well at all. I only use it to take the distilled water and then I take another bottle, put it in the sink, and pour the distilled water into my own water bottle, using a funnel. This is annoying but not a deal breaker. We love our distiller.

This distiller is slightly larger than many, but what attracted us was the on/off switch for AC power. No need to pull the plug to power down. It runs quietly, and was easy to clean up after use. We liked the plastic catch container - no glass to break! Our use is in a humidifier to avoid the white dust, and occasionally in an iron, etc. We do not use the carbon filter, which keeps things simpler, and particularly like the short flexible tube that can be attached to the spout to ensure all the condensate is directed into the catch container, and not dribbling off the edge of the lid with a slight misalignment. A tube of this kind could be added to similar distillers if they don't include one.We ran it on a Kill-A-Watt meter and were surprised to find that it consumed almost exactly the 900 watts at which it is rated, peaking briefly at about 905 watts, then settling down around 890-900 watts. It took about 3.7 kilowatt-hours to produce approximately 1.33 gallons of distilled water. (Note that we do not operate it at "full capacity", from fill line to dry - see next paragraph.)We avoid the overheating shutoff by measuring the capacity of the distiller just below the fill line (where we fill it), and note that level on the catch container. We power it off when the distilled water has filled to an inch or two below that. This leaves an inch or more of water in the bottom of the distiller. By not boiling it dry, we avoid depositing a lot of minerals in the bottom of the distiller stainless steel pot, and also avoid distilling over any small amount of heavy volatiles that boil at a higher temperature than water. We intend to plug it into timer switch capable of switching the 900 watt load, so allowing it to run without checking its progress. It is pretty reliable in timing, if started with the same amount of water, at the same temperature. We use hot water from the tap (actually just warm, as we keep the water heater set low), and our water is softened, which helps avoid lime scale. A cleaning with vinegar removes nearly all the "staining" we get in the bottom of the distiller pot, leaving only a faint stain that penetrated the surface of the steel right away, but is not really darkening with repeated use.Starting with hot water shortens the time before it starts boiling and producing condensed water. This water is heated with natural gas in the water heater, more cheaply than heating it with electricity in the distiller. Leaving some (hot) water in the bottom at the end of each use wastes the electricity used to heat it up. We are talking a few cents here, either way. At our electrical billing, I recall calculating the cost of distilled water at about 30 cents per gallon. (Forgive me if the power usage and cost data are a bit off, I am going from memory.)We are quite happy with this ROVSUN 6L distiller, and can recommend it. Our usage method was inspired both by our own ideas and the reports of other reviewers (thanks to all for reporting your experiences). Operated with a little care, it works fine, does not leak, and is easy to clean.