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Question: How much heat does this generate? Any way to duct the heat used to regenerate the desiccant outdoors?
Document: Bought this for the TV room in our basement. Our old dehumidifier was loud enough that it disrupted our TV watching experience ... it also made the room very hot. The SD-014V is significantly quieter and doesn't generate nearly the same amount of heat keeping the room much more comfortable. It mostly does what I expected it to do.Pros:* Quiet ... really quiet. Just the sound of a small fan and periodic gurgling as water drains. * Not a heat generator.
I was looking for a dehumidifier for a small room that became very over heated with a traditional dehumidifier. The desiccant system takes the humidity out of the air and creates significantly less heat. Only minor problem has been that the hose/tank connection is easily disconnected. A very good product so far. I recommend it.
In the 40% RH mode, it would begin to run. I just switched to manual.Our unit makes a short, tiny squeak whenever the desiccant wheel makes a complete revolution (once in approx. 2 min). It's not annoying, but I do notice it. You can also smell the heating element at times. It's not an obnoxious smell, but it's there.The unit is attractive and well made.
Puts out a little funny smell at times. But I definitely prefer it to the compressor kind. It's expensive though but effective, quiet on low and puts out a little less heat.
It would throw off just enough heat to keep our 31' sailboat from icing up, and it would keep the cabin dry. The drain tube could be run to the bilge, where the condensate would be ejected by the bilge pumps. We might try that in the future.For other uses (e.g.
There's no BUT, I'm just reluctant to give it a 5star because I've only had it for a month. It works well in a 1000sq ft apt and extremely well in a room. Too well. Way too dry and hot. Humidity at 70%, gets dropped to 46% by the end of the day or so. Maybe a little longer. Regardless, it's tank fills up in a day if left on in high humidity.
We saw this device as being useful for putting just a tiny bit of heat in the building (for the water pipes), while staying on top of the humidity problem. And for this purpose it seems to be working very well. I pulled out a gallon of water and dropped the RH by about 10% after one day of running on medium speed (45 degF, 70% RH initially). I'm satisfied with that.
Win-win.That said, it's not the most efficient device in the world. If you can run a dehumidifier in higher temperature air and don't mind the noise of a compressor-type humidifier, you can pull out MUCH more significant quantities of water in shorter time with the same electricity. How efficient is this dehumidifier?
Update 2/3/2014: We actually bought two of these units. The first one, described below, works fine. The fan in the second one stopped running when set to medium speed. The heating element would run, but without any air movement to cool it. I shut it down very soon after discovering the problem. I would HOPE there is some sort of thermal breaker to shut down the unit in this scenario before it starts smoking/burning. I am returning the second unit for a replacement.
The room remains comfortable.Cons:* Not a power house. It extracts water from the room but its not what you want for a large or particularly humid area. * The humidity level sensor seems to keep the room more humid than my hygrometer would suggest. This seems to be a problem with all my dehumidifiers so not a big ding but would be nice to have a dehumidifier with an accurate humidity sensor.
Answer: I have my unit in the basement and I have not noticed that it produces much heat at all, certainly less than the compressor types. Generating heat isn't that big an issue in Upstate New York. What I like about the unit is that it is very quiet. It cycles on and off indicating that it can keep my basement at a reasonable level of humidity without running all the time. I have no idea how well it might work in climate that is both hotter and more humid.