Not that old. A GE. I’m sure it’s OOW. It is clean with no dirt on fins. In an enclosed room, so I increased air flow with fans. Don’t know if that matters. Looks new, bought new. Time to shit can? Anything I can do? I’ve been using on a timer where it runs for an hour, ices up, then melts over the next 3 hrs or so. Thanks
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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles: It's common for dehumidifiers to ice up if the room temperature is below 65 degrees.
This ^^^^^
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
Yep, typical conventional refrigerant dehumidifier. Even the commercial low grain refrigerant dehumidifiers we use in my industry work best between 70-90 degrees. They will go in to a defrost cycle often as well. Bump the temps up and it won’t freeze up as often, no need to replace it.
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Originally posted by White Phosphorus: Most modern dehumidifiers have low temperature deicers which makes them work below 55 degrees. Even an old one should work at 60 degrees.
If your stated temperatures are right, I would say that there is a sensor of some kind that needs to be replaced.
V.
I suspect the OP has a little off the shelf unit, nothing special. Even if it does work below 60ish degrees the grain depression is minimal.
OP, what’s the relative humidity in your basement?
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