on 7/15/2008 8:23 PM Nate Nagel said the following:
ransley wrote:
On Jul 15, 6:55 pm, "Tom G" wrote:

"N8N" wrote in message

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Subject says all... need a dehumidifier, preferably quiet and with low
temp operability. After searching on Amazon, I can't find a single
brand that I feel confident purchasing. Probably the one with the
least negative reviews was Frigidaire and I'll be returning one of
those this afternoon because it doesn't work properly and Frigidaire
apparently doesn't have real customer service personnel, only an
annoying automated answering system.

is there *anything* that doesn't suck? Anything at all? All I see
are comments like "I had this for two weeks and it died" "loud, rattly
POS" "doesn't really have a deice feature, just shuts off until the
ice melts" yadda yadda yadda.

nate

Whirlpool used to (up to 6yrs ago or so) to make an excellent
dehumdifier
and Sears brand was made by Whirlpool until about 3 or 4 years ago.
I was
working at Sears when they switched to a Chinese made unit instead
of the
Whirlpool. Price stayed the same but quality went down the tubes.
Not too
many of the Chinese units didn't get returned with a month or so.
You might
check to see if Whirlpool still makes their own units
stateside...may be
still a good unit.

Tom G.


About 5 yrs ago I bought a sears, it was fine, following year I bought
a second sears it was junk and I returned it. They are all made in
china, so how can anyone know if any are good.

Maybe I'll just have to go with my usual modus operandi and look for a
good used one on Craigslist. What brands *used* to be good? I'm not
enamored of my DeLonghi just because it's loud and hard to move
around. My parents have had one for years that they probably bought
at Wal-Mart way back in the day. those are my only experiences with
dehumidifiers.

BTW I stopped at Lowe's after work to return the Frigidaire. I asked
the guy in the appliance dept. about the fan running all the time and
he said no, he didn't think that was normal, but he didn't sound real
sure. That's all they sell there, anyway. They had a display model
out so I waited until nobody was looking, took it off the shelf, and
plugged it into the power strip for the fridge display. It works
EXACTLY the same as the one I just returned - fan runs constantly, and
I *think* the compressor does too, regardless of humidity setting, and
also it doesn't shut off when you remove the bucket. Also based on
reading reviews online it would make a lousy unit for my garage
because apparently it puts itself in the "off" mode if the power goes
out. So if the power goes out while you're away, your dehumidifier
stops working and next time you open the garage you find your old car
is now all full of mold and mildew. What a POS. would it be too hard
to make the same damn thing that millions of people have in their
basement, a simple box with a bucket that dehumidifies, and has a
rotary knob that turns it on and off. The fan runs when the
compressor runs. Just make it new, durable, and quiet. Maybe put a
garden hose fitting on it somewhere in case I want to use a
condensate pump. That's all I want. Is that really too much to ask for?

nate


That's what I have, an old White-Westinghouse model MDH25WW1. It has a
nondescript analog dial with numbers from 0 to 10 and no other controls.
The dial sets the humidity level at which it turns on and off, including
the fan. It was manufactured by White Consolidated Industries in Dublin
Ohio. There is no country of origin on the info label. It still works
like a charm, although a little loud. I don't know exactly how old the
thing is, but it contains CFC-12 as a refrigerant, which was banned in 1994.

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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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