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Jeffrey Lebowski
- Jan 1, 1970
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Richard J Kinch said:Or you can add a condensate pump for about $40.
I got one for $.99 + free shipping.
Ebay ...doh !!!
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Richard J Kinch said:Or you can add a condensate pump for about $40.
So you're saying a dehumidifier that consumes 800 watts of energy is
providing more than 800 watts of heat?
BULLSHIT!!!!
Don't waste your money on one. I had an 8000 BTU model. It was a
worthless piece of junk. They have a *very* serious design flaw - the
air the gets blown across the condensing coils (high side, the hot part)
on normal a/c units comes from outside, blows across the high side, and
is vented to the outside. Works great. With the portable units, the air
that blows across the condensing coils comes from the room your are
trying to cool, and is vented to the outside. This causes a relatively
high volume of air to be vented to the outside - and hot air to be
sucked into the room. IOW, it is constantly sucking in a lot of hot air
from outside, and trying to cool it along with the hot air that is
already in the room. Because of this, they will not cool as much space
as a window mount 8000 BTU unit will.
Bite the bullet and get a window mount unit.
Jeffrey Lebowski said:From elsewhere, I know he's also a machinist--and so probly he uses it (
as
do I ) to mix with water soluble cutting oil or synthetic instead of
buying
DI water...just need to add an anti-microbial..
Richard J Kinch said:Latent versus sensible heat.
You are ignorant of thermodynamics and unable to understand the physical
principles.
Yes. If it's like the one I measured, it would provide 1.6x800 = 1280 watts.
Do you believe a 500 watt air conditioner can move 1500 watts of heat?
It's time to admit you are wrong and apologize for your arrogance.
Nick
Wish I had known about the two hose units!
Now that I think back, I seem to recall two hose units, but didn't realize
the purpose.
Good link, but website wasn't that informative--no price, EER. Any ideas?
Other observations good as well. Prodigious condensate. I "prefer" to empty
buckets/use the water, but it is a chore.
A pump to a storage barrel would be better.
The 850 watt Amana can readily fill a 5 gal pail in 24 hrs.
In said:I think NYC water is about .00001 c per gallon.
Oh well... .
But, you know what they say:
00001 penny saved is .00001 penny earned.
Abby Normal said:Get one with two hoses, the single hose ones cause a fair bit of
outside air to infiltrate in
Proctologically Violated©® said:Indeed, soluble oil, but the output is too prodigious even for that
(on a maintenance basis), so I basically pour it around the
plants/lawn/house.
PERIOD!
... the unit is NOT creating more heat then it's using, PERIOD!
Thanks everyone, especially to those who pointed out that some have 2 hoses.
I was wondering before if the single hoses were split.
Richard J Kinch said:No doubt about that. Just not thermodynamics.
Richard J Kinch said:Define "create".
It doesn't "create" heat in the sense of violating energy conservation.
However it does convert latent heat that doesn't affect a thermometer to
sensible heat that does.
By the way, that's 800 watts of power, vs energy.
You might enjoy learning the difference
Wow, you really ARE stupid...