An apparatus and method are extracting water from the ambient air comprising drawing air through an particle ionizer grid, evaporator plates of a refrigerant system the system and recirculating the ionized air and mixing said ionized air with ambient air and recycling said mixed air through said ionizer and evaporator plates to extract moisture from the air. The compressor comprises a motor, an inverter, an inverter controller, and a bus voltage detector to detect a bus voltage of the inverter. The blood pressure measurement bladder is wrapped around a measurement site. The support generally comprises an orienting platform, a platform linkage movably supporting the orienting platform relative to the base, and a plurality of manipulators mounted to the orienting platform, wherein each manipulator movably supports an associated instrument. By the present invention, there is provided a release of the active component over a longer period of time than by the use of the active itself.