Have had one of these small dehumidifiers for some years and it was last used around three years back to dry out re-plastered rooms and it seemed to be working fine at that point. It has been languishing in the garage since - and I have just stripped it down and cleaned the filter and the evaporator and condenser matrix as they were full of crud.
Running it up (in the warm house, not the garage!) with the case off, all looks and sounds well. Fan runs, compressor runs, evaporator is cool/damp to touch, condenser is warm, good airflow in/out - but it doesn't seem to draw out as much moisture as I was expecting. We don't have any damp problems in our house but I would still have expected more than I got - which was so little, the drip tray was just a bit damp.
The drip tray on these machines has a lip around the drain hole into the water tank, so it needs to fill the drip tray deeper than you might expect before you actually see water coming through into the tank, and I'm used to this delay when the machine hasn't been used for a while and the tray has completely dried out.
So to try and do a more meaningful test, when I got a shower this morning, I filled the drip tray up to the point water started to come through into the tank, and left the machine running and the shower extractor off to increase the humidity. I was seeing a drop of water into the tank every five seconds after this. So I'm thinking it's OK'ish but have nothing to compare it to.
Checking the evaporator matrix temp, it's 8.5 degrees C where the thermistor is clipped on, with a room temp of 22 degrees C so I just wondered if anyone can confirm whether that is normal? These machines probably aren't worth re-gassing if that is what it needs.
Thanks.
Running it up (in the warm house, not the garage!) with the case off, all looks and sounds well. Fan runs, compressor runs, evaporator is cool/damp to touch, condenser is warm, good airflow in/out - but it doesn't seem to draw out as much moisture as I was expecting. We don't have any damp problems in our house but I would still have expected more than I got - which was so little, the drip tray was just a bit damp.
The drip tray on these machines has a lip around the drain hole into the water tank, so it needs to fill the drip tray deeper than you might expect before you actually see water coming through into the tank, and I'm used to this delay when the machine hasn't been used for a while and the tray has completely dried out.
So to try and do a more meaningful test, when I got a shower this morning, I filled the drip tray up to the point water started to come through into the tank, and left the machine running and the shower extractor off to increase the humidity. I was seeing a drop of water into the tank every five seconds after this. So I'm thinking it's OK'ish but have nothing to compare it to.
Checking the evaporator matrix temp, it's 8.5 degrees C where the thermistor is clipped on, with a room temp of 22 degrees C so I just wondered if anyone can confirm whether that is normal? These machines probably aren't worth re-gassing if that is what it needs.
Thanks.