Oh aye but then it comes on to dry washing anyway. Renting on a farm means you don't hang washing out unless you want to be attacked by stable flies and have clothes that smell of muck spread fields We have a tumble drier but I have never rated them tbh.
Same, for the conservatory. I had dried it properly and packed into a corner over summer. But it had to come out because the laundry can no longer go outside. In doors, humidity over last couple of days have gone from in 50's to now 60+.
We live in a granite farmhouse effectively built into a sloping hill. No foundations to speak of; just 2ft thick stone walls resting on mostly clay ground. Of course we also live near a confluence of several rivers, with many underground streams and there are actual springs everywhere. We have one right in the village. In houses like these humidity is a fact of life; when it rains heavily, water just comes up through the stone slabs laid straight onto soil (no damp proof layer). The walls need to breathe --coating them in anything but lime render or paint will cause damp problems. In the 60's and 70's many houses were rendered in cement (a bit like the pebble dash craze in the UK) and people have been finding out what a bad idea that was ever since. We basically redid the floors with membrane and insulation, and French drains underneath to channel the water under the house down the slope, and that worked quite well. We also are taking off the cement render applied on the inside in the 90's (because the builders were idiots and the previous owners ignorant). The walls are fine as long as they can breathe. Of course weather here is still a sunny 25 to 30 C.
How much power does it draw from the wall when operating? Presumably these more efficient ones for normal room temperature are using a compressor. I have a desiccant dehumidifier for colder uninsulated conservatory as well as wall-mounted split air-con. Just wondering what sort of power do they draw and how do they compare to desiccant or air-con unit running in dry mode. The desiccant dehumidifier in low mode draws 350 W and 600 W in high mode. The air-con draws similar 350-400 W in dry mode by bringing coil temperature below dew point, but the AC feels less effective for some reason. The humidity % isn't dropping as quickly as the dedicated dehumidifier and the laundry isn't drying as quickly.
Yep ours is on to dry the washing overnight / evening depending on when the washer goes on. Where possible it will get hung out but its been really mixed weather where we are combined with building works going on to the side of the house means its not always practical.
You'll never beat a desiccant for drying, you could dry an Igloo with one of those. I don't have a power meter but the Meaco range varies from 150w to 250w, so not a patch on your 400w system as that will have a larger radiator and and vastly superior air flow.
Only ~200 W for compressor based, that's very efficient. I had used my dehumidifier for in summer and found it to be quite bad at removing humidity, I don't think desiccant dehumidifiers are efficient when temperature is above let's say 25c. It just blows hot air. But yes, it's very good over winter at <15c room temperature, keeps conservatory + laundry dry with just 6 hours of night time off-peak electricity. So I'd think for room temperature dehumidifier, these compressor based ones are probably better from energy efficiency point of view?? That's probably why they are so popular.
I've not specifically measured it but would put our Meaco in the 200-300w range when the chiller is running which isn't all the time. In many ways it equates to running a second fridge in terms of power that turns off if its a particularly dry winters day. It produces the most liquid during Sept-Nov (approx a bucket a day) and then barely any during the rest of the winter (approx a bucket a week) unless its very wet and misty.
Nope, I've got a Meaco stashed away which was bought to get the garage under control, but it needed to run at full power 24/7 so gave it up as a bad idea. It's certainly gotten more muggy of late, currently 66% & 26 degrees in the home office, nothing overly outrageous
And now 70% at 08:00hrs I'm reconsidering digging the bloody thing out, but I do so prefer sitting next to an open window.
