Dehumidifier for Travel Trailer
We are looking for a dehumidifier for our Passport 2910bh. It will be running on a commercial extension cord and would like it to have continuos run (hose drain) and cut off automatically when not nee...
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dewey02 wrote:CavemanCharlie wrote:
I did find one for as low as 150 but, 180 is quite common.
The one in my basement has been running for 7-9 years. If you are only getting 2 years from one then something is terribly wrong. I don't know what your basement is like but, I have found that the ones with a filter work better. It is not a great filter but, it seems to do the trick. I bet your problem is just that your De-humidifiers are getting dirty. I bet you are junking out perfectly good units that only need to be taken apart and cleaned.
Or, maybe you are just really un-lucky.
They are all built in China and that means built quite poorly.
People who only get 2 years out of a dehumidifier probably also only get 2 years out of their deep cycle batteries. And for the very same reason you described! Lack of care and lack of maintenance.
What absolute BS..
I will let you know, I have so far gotten TEN YEARS out of my one pair of 6V GC batts so far and STILL going strong..
I currently have a 2003 F250 which now has 200,000 miles and still going on the clock..
I have a 1970s car what has 300,000 on the clock before I stopped driving it as a "daily driver" in 1999 and I am currently doing a complete top to bottom tear down and restoration on..
I have a 1966 Jacobson 7HP tractor which is STILL in working order and can be used to mow or put a snow blower on for winter..
Also have a 1977 Ford 10 HP tractor that runs like a top..
I have plenty of other examples of good working stuff I own.. None of my stuff would be usable if I didn't know how to take care of it..
YOU obviously have no clue about "todays" dehumidifiers, they are built so darn cheap that they will not last 20 yrs like the first all metal built like a tank one did.
Don't bother with one with a built in pump, my current one I paid $250 for so I could put it further away from my basement drain.. The pump died the SECOND YEAR.. Had to relocate closer to the drain which is under my bedroom.. And YES, I DRAINED AND CLEANED the pump tank along with cleaning the filter every 30 days.. Walk by it every day through the basement to get to my garage to go to work.
YOUR comments are way off base and offensive.
